Chapter 40-42 Flashcards
What happens
Serena sends Offred to nicks roomvto make a baby
Offred gives 3 versions of what occurred
3 versions of what occurred between Offred and nick
1. Single room I smell the smoke on him He’s undoing my dresss His mouth is on me -feminine
2
Our fingers hardly touch
Unsmiling
I could just squirt…and you could pour it in - masculine
3
Not sure how it happened
Partway through u thought abourbserena
I would like to be without betrayal
Offred interrupts story
I’m sorry there’s no much pain in the story
Maternal
Like dystopia
How does Offred justify relationship w nick
I didn’t even think of it asbfiving myself to him because what did I have to give
It wasn’t called form
What is different about this relationship and those W commander and Luke
Makes me feel more in control
With the commander I close my res
About nick ‘memorise him’ I ought to have done that with Luke
I talk too much… about Moira…not Luke
Nick talks little
What reasons does Offred five for now wanting to stay at the commanders
I’m too afraid
I no longer wants to leave… I want to be here, with nick
Offred salvanaginf
Bell is rolling
No breakfast
Segregated
Paths once used by tidents
Regime decision not to give public account of crimes committed by those to be hanged
‘A collective murmur goes
Aunt Lydia reintroduced
-she can read
Her job is to indoctrinate
How much regime has taken her