Chapter 25+26

Question 1

The garden

Flowers

Answer 1

Serena joy
‘Snipping off the seed pods with a pair of shears’
‘Some Kamikaze, committed on the swelling genitalia of the flowers? The fruiting body.’

Anger of infertility

Question 2

Sickness

Answer 2

‘They got sick a lot’ (wives)

‘As for us, the Handmaids and even the Martha’s, we avoid illness’

‘The Martha’s don’t want to be forced to retire’

‘A failure of the glands would be terminal’

Question 3

Scrabble

Answer 3

‘To he asked to play scrabble’

‘Kinky’

‘I thought he might be toying’

Question 4

Magazine

Answer 4

‘Those candid eyes, shadowed, with make-up, yes, but I like the eyes of cars..’

Renaissance - started cultural movement in Italy

Question 5

Changes of ceremony

Answer 5

‘I felt shy of him’

‘I was conscious that my legs were hairy’

Comical- award of self as sexual being

Starting to objectify self

Question 6

Mistress

Answer 6

‘The fact is that I’m his mistress’

‘Men at the top have always had mistresses’