By Bouson, J. Brooks
Brooks's statement: Marian's fantasy of her body/self is dissolving demonstrates that Marian is extremely narcissistic and is vulnerable (because she's narcisstic). Her anorexia, therefore, concretizes "the ragility" of her self. Although the text doesn't picture Marian suffered from drastically losing weight, the threat of being slacken down the size is actually projected on Duncan's "long famished body."
Questions:
1. Does Marian see Duncan's thin body as a threat? Does she fear to be as skinny as Duncan and be treated as powerless a figure as Duncan?
2. When Duncan reveals to Marian that he wishes to be Amoeba, what is the response and reaction of Marian?
Notes:
Fish's interpretation of Alice, who is "trying to find her role" as a woman, and thus could be Marian's reflection in the mirror.