In Lucky Jim and The Edible Woman, Amis and Atwood use the protagonist's suitors as foils to illustrate the escape

... A Foil-Perhaps More than Meets the Eye in Atwood's The Edible Woman and Amis's Lucky Jim? The adolescent years are often associated with turbulence, illusion, and self-discovery; however, Kingsley Amis's Lucky Jim and Margaret Atwood's The Edible Woman demonstrate that more often than not, the twenties possess these qualities to a greater extent than adolescence. The age period of the twenties often consists of relationships, employment and self issues and using the premise of these uncertain times, Amis and Atwood effectively satire various societal systems. Moreover, Amis and Atwood both implement the use of the foil, a character who, by contrast with another character, accentuates that character's distinctive characteristics. In particular, each author uses the protagonist's two love interests as foils to each other not only for the purpose of character contrast, but also, to further the development of each novel. {Thus, - omit?} Amis and Atwood use Margaret and

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