The Handmaid's Tale pages 49-99

We start to learn a lot more about the narrator in this reading. We finally learn her name, Offred, but we don't know her real name for she likes to keep that hidden. We learn that she has a kid although she doesn't know if the child is dead or alive for it was taken away from her when she came to this place and the child was only about 5. Offred always talks about her friend moira from college, and in this section Moira comes to join Offred in this place. Moira isn't handling the situacin very well. She has tried getting out but to no avvail. In the last part Offred is being fucked by the Commander. She prefers to use this way of stating the circumstance because it was by no means enjoyable to the both of them, but she couldn't consider it rape either because she had in a way made this choice. Her saying that she had a choice in it makes me question what kind of choice she had.