The Visit
Claire Zachanssian, nee Wascher, was born in this year.
1892
When Laura speaks to her friend Kitty on the phone, Mrs Sheridan says “quote (or paraphrase)” to Laura, proving the item's significance.
"Tell her to wear that sweet hat she had on last Sunday".
Guardians are offically known as this.
Guardians of the Faith
Both Gilead's Aunts and the citizens of Gullen use this high ideal to justify state-sanctioned violence and the stripping away of human rights.
Morality
This food is Miss Smyth's Achilles Heel.
Pizza
One false witness was Louis Perch; the other’s surname is this foul.
Chicken
"On the wings of hope, of love, of joy, Miss Meadows sped back to the music hall, up the aisle, up the steps, over to the piano." This is proof of what?
Proof of Miss Meadows's attitude and behaviour shift.
The Eyes are this type of police inside Gilead.
Secret Police (Spies)
Offred's secret 'latin' phrase "Nolite te bastardes carborundorum" and Ill's refusal to commit suicide both serve as small acts of this.
Defiance
Miss Smyth is from Canada, but she holds another passport from this country.
Ireland
Originally the judge who ruled against Claire in her paternity suit against Ill, he now serves as her loyal butler, Boby.
Chief Justice Courtly
Mansfield often uses this fabric in her descriptions to show wealth.
Velvet
This person confirms that Nick is an Eye.
Professor James Darcy Pieixoto (Historical Notes)
Durrenmatt uses the entire town of Gullen as an allegory for societal greed, whereas Mansfield restricts her critique of class hypocrisy to this specific social group.
Bourgeoisie (upper middle class / surburban elites)
This animal was Miss Smyth's "teaching" companion during lockdown.
cat
The name of the woods near Güllen where Claire and Ill used to meet as teenagers, which serves as a recurring setting for their reunions
Konrad's Village Wood
Mansfield enables readers to 'hear' a character. We infer this about a character due to the way they speak. 'Gran, gi' us a penny!'
Class distinction, lack of education, lower status
The derogatory name assigned by Gilead to infertile women, elderly women, feminists, and political dissidents banished to labour camps.
Unwomen
Unlike Durrenmatt's grotesque and direct portrayal of institutional corruption, Mansfield exposes class divide through subtle shifts in this narrative perspective.
Internal monologue
Miss Smyth usually does this activity with her dad when she visits them in Canada.
Go to the range / shoot guns
Ill attempts to flee the town by taking a train to this country, but collapses on the platform in terror as the townspeople crowd around him.
Australia
"It's all the fault, she decided ... of these absurd class distinctions. Well, for one part, she didn't feel them. Not a bit, not an atom..." informs the reader how Laura feels about this.
Class distinction
The year in which the academic symposium analsysing Offred's cassette tapes takes place, signaling that Gilead has long since fallen.
2195
Offred's internal monologue creates a sharp contrast between her dutiful public behaviour and her private thoughts, a narrative technique mirroring this modernist style used extensively by Katherine Mansfield.
Stream of consciousness
During your Tambopata trip, Miss Smyth got stung; the doctors eventually figured out that she had this in her scalp.
A Botfly larva