Handmaids characters
Offred = 11, 22, 23, 25, 36
23 ‘we are two-legged wombs’
36 ‘is it contempt I read or indifference’
Aunt Lydia = 22, 24, 39
22 ‘her voice of raw egg white’
Commander 34, 36, 37, 39
37 ‘a juvenile display, the whole act, and pathetic; but it’s
something I understand’
Moira 20, 22, 34, 37, 38
10 ‘she’s like a cat that crawls onto the page when you’re trying to
read’
38 ‘me and that wall-eyed way they have’
Serena Joy 25
‘yarns of intricate and useless wool people: her form of procreation,
it must be’
Nick 40, 41
40 ‘holding a cigarette… I’d like to rub it over my
skin’
Luke 28
‘Luke wasn’t a fish, he was a human being and could
make his own decisions’
Ofglen 27
‘she may be a spy, a plant, set to trap me; such as the soil in which we
grow’
Offred = 11, 22, 23, 25, 36
23 ‘we are two-legged wombs’
36 ‘is it contempt I read or indifference’
Aunt Lydia = 22, 24, 39
22 ‘her voice of raw egg white’
Commander 34, 36, 37, 39
37 ‘a juvenile display, the whole act, and pathetic; but it’s
something I understand’
Moira 20, 22, 34, 37, 38
10 ‘she’s like a cat that crawls onto the page when you’re trying to
read’
38 ‘me and that wall-eyed way they have’
Serena Joy 25
‘yarns of intricate and useless wool people: her form of procreation,
it must be’
Nick 40, 41
40 ‘holding a cigarette… I’d like to rub it over my
skin’
Luke 28
‘Luke wasn’t a fish, he was a human being and could
make his own decisions’
Ofglen 27
‘she may be a spy, a plant, set to trap me; such as the soil in which we
grow’
