Literature Review: Gail Carson Levine's Ella Enchanted
Food has always been associated with physical nourishment, but in Gail Carson Levine's children's novel, Ella Enchanted, food takes different meanings. Reimer describes food as "sustainable consumption" (35) and "pleasure" (35) associated with the protagonists on one hand, and as cause for domination (35) and greed (38) to represent the antagonists on the other hand. Elizabeth Reimer, whose literary expertise lies on children's literature, women's life history, and fiction writing teaches at the Thompson Rivers University in British Columbia (Reimer 53). For the purpose of this review, the subject of discussion is Reimer's "Consumption, Femininity, and Girl Power in ...
