Clara abandoned her education to serve as a complement to her husband, raising their children and staying within the domestic role. Clara, Marian's friend, represents another vision of typical femininity: the housewife.
However, her conformity also leads to a deep sense of unhappiness and loss of self. On the exterior, Marian is a vision of standard, unobtrusive femininity: she fetches Peter drinks when he asks her to, speaks little and never argues with him, holds a mundane job at which she never causes any problems, and dresses conservatively. Each woman's relationship to gendered expectations also serves as a source of conflict. Every female character in The Edible Womanembodies a certain set of values that either conform to or defy stereotypical female gender roles.
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