Shopping
The narrator's listing of what she sees in the room emphasizes this.
What is detachment from her surroundings?
The hotel rooms represent this to narrator.
What is personal freedom?
The primary effect of the song lyrics.
What is reveal the illegality of the groups?
The sitting room and its decor inspire this feeling in Offred.
What is upset by it?
She is from this country.
What is Canada?
Traditional values of the Gilead society involve this.
What is domesticity?
The narrator's question, "How were we to know we were happy?" expresses these feelings.
What is nostalgia?
Aunt Lydia's crying is intended to reveal this.
What is fond memories of before?
Describing Serena Joy as "withered" suggests ...
What is age, used up, infertility or illness
Author's age
What is 83
The narrator describes her reflections as "like a distorted shadow, a parody ...", this suggests this.
What embarrassment, or her attire is a costume, or current life is unreal to her, or coping with her new life through dark humor?
The primary technique used by the author to develop the central idea of the chapter.
What is juxtaposition?
The "things" Aunt Lydia refers to are this.
What is sexual assaults?
This triggers Offred's reminiscence.
The author wrote (roughly) these many books.
What is 48?
In addition to discipline and modesty, the comparison of the narrator's location with a "nunnery" suggests this.
What is chastity?
Reason Atwood chooses not to use quotation marks to indicate dialogue between characters.
What is highlight the difference between flashback and reminiscence?
Reason narrator claims for current society.
What is apathy?
Sudden change from present to past and back to present tense.
What is the incongruity between intent and outcome?
The author received this many honorary degrees.
What is 25?
The end of the chapter emphasizes this developing idea.
Explanation of Atwood's purpose for having the discovered message in a foreign language.
What is that the message is more important than what it says?
Primary narrative technique author uses most closely resembles
What is stream of consciousness?
Clues to the true nature of Offred's family picnic.
What is Luke's singing?
Author describes the genre of the novel as this.
What is speculative fiction?