but nothing i ever gave was good for you; it was like white bread to goldfish. they cram and cram, and it kills them, and they drift in the pool, belly-up, making stunned faces and playing on our guilt as if their own toxic gluttony was not their own fault there you are, still outside the window, still with your hands out, still pallid and fish-eyed, still acting stupidly innocent and starved.

More recently Atwood has continued her exploration of the implications of Canadian literary themes for Canadian identity in lectures such as Strange Things: The Malevolent North in Canadian Literature (1995). Davidson.

She is a winner of the Arthur C. She is among the most-honoured authors of fiction in recent history. While Margaret Atwood is best known for her work as a novelist Margaret Atwood is also a poet having publiMargaret Atwoodd fifteen books of poetry to date.