Monop By Margaret Atwood Summary

sound from the woods frightens the narrator and her companions. Like the narrator, her brother has close relationship with nature and spends most the time in woods. She realizes that, the sound must be result of her brother’s action with the trees,
From the forest behind us came the sound of sporadic chopping; a few blows, the echoes, a pause, a few more blows, one of them laughing, echo of the laughter. It was my brother who cut the trial, the year before he left, the axe hacking and the machete slashing through the under- growth marking his progress as he worked his way around the shore (101).
Atwood marks the beauty of sun set in the island as “The sun set had been red, reddish purple, and the next day the sun held…” (105). On the second

Marriage is the turn where women lose their own individuality and become dependent and under the control of men. During a conversation with Anna, she says how she is dependent on David after marriage. Anna’s is crucial after her marriage, as, she could not act according to her own will. The narrator says about marriage as, “But marriage was like Monopoly or doing crossword puzzles, either your mind didn’t. A small neutral country” (111).
On seeing the scrapbooks in the cabin, the narrator comes across her childhood memories about animals in the island. Every page in the scrapbook recalls the image of the flowers and her happy moments “page after page of eggs and rabbits, grass and trees, normal and green, surrounding them, flowers blooming, sun in the upper right-hand corner of each picture, moon symmetrically in the left” (116).
The images in the scrapbook are drawn in her childhood when she has had no idea about the outside world. The drawings have no social concern. But how the narrator worries for the act of and she wants to reform the society through her profession. One of the important aspect of ecofeminism is that people should have4 social concern, “I couldn’t remember, ever having drawn these pictures. I was disappointed in myself; I must gave been a hedonistic child, I thought, and quite stodgy also, interested in nothing bur social welfare”