The Imagery of Magazine Headings (“Rape Fantasies”)
Margaret Atwood elucidates, “So at work they all have to talk about it because no matter what magazine you one, there it is, staring you right between the eyes.” Clearly, Content about rape is permeating in all magazines. Consequently, readers cannot elude discussions about rapes considering they devour the content on rape in the magazines that they read daily. Moreover, enchanting titles such as “RAPE TEN THINGS TO DO ABOUT IT” are allure women readers.
Imagery of Questionnaires (“Rape Fantasies”)
Margaret Atwood writes about “questionnaires like the ones they used to have about whether you were a good enough wife or endomorph or an ectomorph…with the scoring upside down on page 73, and then these numbered do-it-yourself dealies.” The questionnaires accumulate material content about women’s ‘rape fantasies’. By filling the questionnaires in the magazines, the female readers become enthusiastic contributors in the discourse on the topic of rape fantasies.
Imagery of ‘The Man From Mars’ (“The Man From Mars”)
Margret Atwood asserts, “She (Christine) had been mistaken: he was not young, just short. He came a little above her shoulder, but then, she was above the average height; "statuesque," her mother called it when she was straining. He was also what was referred to in their family as "a person from another culture": oriental without a doubt, though perhaps not Chinese. Atwood’s depiction of the furtive man notifies the reader that he must have been Asian. Therefore, he was not someone who is not acquainted with Christine’s culture.
The Imagery of the Runs (“The Man From Mars”)
According to Atwood, “As the weekdays passed and he showed no signs of let-ting up, she began to jog-trot between classes, finally to run. He was tireless, and had an amazing wind for one who smoked so heavily: he would speed long behind her, keeping the distance between them the same, as though he were a pull-toy attached to her by a string.” The imagery of the man running after Christine in the campus is quite a sight! An observer deficient of background information regarding the runs would construe the run as a form of a derby. Christine gets used to the runs to the extent that, “The daily chase was becoming a habit; she even looked forward to it.” Christine , to some extent, delights in the man trailing her ubiquitously.
