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In Asian American writer Lisa See’s novel Peony in Love (2007), the love-sick maiden Peony commits anorexia which finally leads to her annihilation. Anorexia, as well as foot bonding, both of which are distortions of female body, convey various metaphors. The novel repeatedly presents the inability to eat or eating monotonous meals as symptoms of the nervous breakdown. Through a series of feminist psychological analysis, this paper is designed to figure out these metaphors of anorexia within the text in the following three dimensions: anorexia as imitation of art, anorexia as failure in mother-daughter relationship and the anorexic female body as a language. After explanations of the metaphorical meaning of anorexia, this paper aims to analyze Peony’s starved-for-love self, and draw a conclusion about lovesickness during the whole process of Peony’s maturation.

Metaphors of Anorexia—Analysis of Peony’s Starved-for-love Self in Lisa See’s Peony in Love