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A 5 page analysis of Margaret Atwood's novel Surfacing, a psychologically oriented novel that describes how the unnamed narrator seeks unity and reanimation of the parts of her psyche that she suppressed in order to survive. This is a complex novel, which is permeated with multiple layers of meaning, but it is basically the story of a fragmented woman becoming whole again. In relating this journey, the writer argues that Atwood relies heavily on imagery that focuses on the narrator's heightened senses, and—particularly—on her sense of smell. No additional sources cited.
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and another young couple, she travels to a remote island in northern Quebec, which she visited as a child with her parents. While it begins in a manner similar to
a detective novel, this is a novel of self-discovery. The disappearance of her father is merely a pretext for making her own quest: "It was no longer his death but
my own that concerned me" (Atwood 127). The story describes how the unnamed narrator seeks unity and reanimation of the parts of
her psyche that she suppressed in order to survive. This is a complex novel, which is permeated with multiple layers of meaning, but it is basically the story of a
fragmented woman becoming whole again. In relating this journey, Atwood relies heavily on imagery that focuses on the narrators heightened senses, and?particularly?on her sense of smell. The detached and
impersonal tone of voice that characterizes the narrators voice at the beginning of the novel demonstrates her cerebral approach to life, as well as her difficulty with experiencing emotion. The
reader also gets a sense of her panic at the disorder she senses rising within her mind. She says, "I wanted to keep busy, preserve at least the signs of
order" (Atwood 93). The narrators past contained so many painful memories that she created a fictitious past that consisted of a marriage, divorce and the death of a son.
This alternative past took the place of the true one in her mind, a past that included an unsuccessful love affair with a married man, an attempted suicide, and an
abortion that she was compelled to undergo by her lover. The protagonists failure to experience emotional responses is also demonstrated by her inability to accept that her parents are dead
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