the truth.Atwoods attitude in the poem is very demanding and unknowing. She is a woman who wants answers about a man. She is having a hard time understanding this man and wants to know whats going on inside his head. This happens to describe Atwood perfectly because she once said her husband (who is also a writer) was [b]etter than a dentist. At least another writer knows why you are being so strange. And you can take long vacations (Author Profile).In the poem, Atwood compares an orange to the man. It is said that Atwood often writes of food in her publications because she feels as though women have come to feel uncomfortable with themselves and food. "Atwood probes the prohibitions on the public display of female appetite and the social taboos which surround women and food in terms of the politics of eating" (Parker). I believe Atwood does this to make herself and the reader feel more comfortable with the frustrations she describes. She can only see the outside of the orange in the same way that she can only see the outside of the man. But she wants more than that, I want to pick it up in my hand I want to peel the skin off; I want more to be said to me than just Orange: want to be told everything it has to say (Muller 255). She wants to know all she can about the man, and it is driving her crazy not knowing whats really going on inside that head of his. There is a constant battle in our world; men want to know how women really work and think, and women want to know what men really work and think. Atwood even mentions that she knows the man is thinking the same thing she is, and she wants to make him say it out load. [M]ake me want to wrench you into saying: now Id crack your skull like a walnut, split it like a pumpkin to make you talk, or get a look inside (Muller 256). She knows that this man has the same thoughts about her. She knows that he has this overwhelming desire to understand her by knowing everything and anyth...
