Marian cannot confide in either Ainsley, Clara, Peter or even Duncan and is faced with a perennial disappointment. Here, the title is a clear pun on how the mass mind tends to 'feed on' women both literally and metaphorically, by their pathetic sexism and misogynic mind-frames. The antagonistic rendezvous of Clara's fate, in a parallel connection makes Marian feel constantly frustrated and underwhelmed. One defining preoccupation of her schedule revolves around visiting her perpetually pregnant friend, Clara Bates, who got married to Joe and therefore, had to drop out of high school. In addition, Marian is portrayed as a jobholder at a food sampling company who gets engaged to her boyfriend, Peter Wollander, a young businessperson. She has a ridiculous excuse-the teenager who is under her care will be influenced wrongly through her tenants' 'immoral' activities. Their landlady, here, happens to be a prying woman who keeps on attempting to confine the concerned lodgers within boundaries. Through her predicaments, the novel captures the true essence of psychological deterioration, sexual dissatisfaction and also identity crisis. In the novel, Marian lives with Ainsley Tewce, her roommate and a sort of "intellectual" woman who has interests in learning about the human mind and its developmental progress.
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