Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing is one of the greatest literary texts that has left a deep and intense effect on me. It is the story of an unnamed woman who returns to her aboriginal space, an island of Canada, her nativity. The unnamed narrator realises gradually that the city life has exploited her inner self and engulfed the innocence in her. She tries to be one with the place, with the trees, with the water. But her disturbing marriage, her abortion, her traumatized experience afflict her so much that the process to be one with the nature becomes really complex. But gradually she discards the identities assigned on her through discarding her americanized friends, even processed food and clothes. Thus the process goes on and moments come when she says "I become a tree". The novel thus provides layerings of thoughts that are really engaging.