Cat's Eye

A successful female painter at her fifties goes back to Toronto for her retrospective show. This is where she grows up and is laden of her childhood momories, the days when she is having a bullied-and-bullying back relationship with Cordelia. These memories unexpectedly disturbs her again. She recalls how shaky she was, and can still be, even now.

Atwood's intelligence is in the ability of precisely presenting our mixed feelings toward childhood. With the mind of the middle aged potagonist, memories about childhood torturing are atanomised, and given cause and effect. In examining her past, wounds are opened once again. Hence , they are finally, really getting healed.