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Margaret Atwood’s novel Surfacing tells the story of a young Canadian woman’s search for her missing father and finding a new sense of herself along the way. The author uses imagery to portray the narrator’s feelings of enclosure that she stru ....

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... bush. Mocked and ridiculed at schools for always being different and new also had poignant effects on the narrator. She never felt as though she belonged. She describes the feeling like “being socially retarded” and states that it is comparable to “being mentally retarded, it arouses in others disgust and pity and the desire to torment and reform” (69). The relationships she forges later on will be greatly influenced by these images of youth. The narrator’s first relationship with a man turns out to very detrimental to her well being. The man is married and unavailable yet she describes her feelings for him as “unique, the first, tha ...