The Handmaid’s Tale: Serena Joy Characterisation And Key Quotes Flashcards
“She stays in her home, but it doesn’t seem to agree with her“. (P.56)
–Offred suggests that Serena is trapped in the very ideology on which she had based a popularity.
“As for my husband, she said he’s just that. My husband. I want that to be perfectly clear. Till death do us part. It’s final”. (P.26)
–Offred and Serena, might not be seen as opposite, but has doubles.
– They both want a child, and the attention of them both focuses on the commander of whom Serena is very possessive.
“ hard lost for quality, soft sentimental cravings”. (P.90)
–Offred knows what Serena is thinking, so there are indications of their attitudes and tastes in the jewellery and the perfume she wears and in the furnishings of house.
– There is also evidence of a certain toughness and Serena‘s cigarette smoking and use of slang.
– And her idea that Offred should sleep with Nick to conceive the child.
“She’s actually smiling, conquettishly even; there’s a hint of here for a small-screen mannequins allure, flicking over her face like a momentary static”. (P.216)
– But Serena has her revenge to: she has deliberately withheld from the news of her lost daughter and her photograph which offered is longing for.
