While walking through a park in Toronto, Christine is stopped by an Asian man asking for directions. She kindly draws him a map, expecting to be done with him; however, the man insists on exchanging names. Christine observes that if this was a person from her own culture, she would think he was trying to pick her up but that does not happen to her because she is big, or “statuesque” as her mother says. Suddenly, however, the young man grabs her arm and insists on accompanying her home. Frightened, Christine escapes by jumping on a streetcar.

When the school year comes to an end, the mysterious man calls her house, and her mother, trying to do her best for Christine, invites him to tea. Christine goes along with her mother but is pleased by her mother’s dismay when she answers the door and sees he is not the foreign potentate she had imagined. Christine serves him tea but is outraged when he sets the timer on his camera, abruptly puts his arm around her, and jams his cheek up against her as the shutter clicks.

While teaching sailing at a summer camp, she leaves several letters from him unanswered. When she returns home, he locates her on campus and begins to follow her relentlessly. When she asks him what he wants, he answers that he wants to talk to her, but given the opportunity to do so, he smiles apologetically and says nothing. She is both frightened and embarrassed. This mysterious, emaciated, chain-smoking man with badly bitten fingernails and threadbare clothing who pursues Christine everywhere makes her interesting to other men; they begin to ask her out, when they never had before. Christine begins to feel different, more like Marilyn Monroe, she thinks, than a dolphin.

This story was the first work of any kind I read from Atwood beyond Handmaids Tale, which I thought was OK in a blunt-force pc sort of way. But The Man From Mars was a pleasant (to me) revelation. It's themes were standard fodder for short stories overweight and undersized college girls self image takes a roller coaster ride when shes stalked.

She becomes truly afraid when the man begins to telephone her, sometimes just breathing into the phone; he follows her down her own street, dodging behind trees when she looks back. One night he terrifies Elvira, the housekeeper, when she finds him peering through the French doors. The police are called, and Christine is relieved that she is not the one who told, although she realizes that had he..

The Man From Mars by Margaret Atwood, 1977

The magic trick:

Creating a shared experience and understanding for two characters through a situation that could be expected to do just the opposite

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This story plods along in a linear sequence of “and then this happened,” “and then this happened,” “and then this happened” – much in the way that the Vietnamese student relentlessly stalks Christine. But a funny thing has happened by story’s end: Christine and her stalker are far more similar than the reader might have previously imagined. Both are merely faces in the crowd of the big white normal. Both are made more interesting by the stalking experience. In fact, his stalking of Christine is the defining characteristic of each of them. And that’s quite a trick on Atwood’s part.

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Annoying and tedious though it was, his pursuit of her had an odd result: mysterious in itself, it rendered her equally mysterious. No one had ever found Christine mysterious before. To her parents she was a beefy heavyweight, a plodder, lacking in flair, ordinary as bread. To her sisters she was the plain one, treated with an indulgence they did not give to each other: they did not fear her as a rival. To her male friends she was the one who could be relied on. She was helpful and a hard worker, always good for a game of tennis with the athletes among them.