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What is a requirement, but "also a luxury"?
A bath
"My nakedness is strange to me already. My body seems outdated. Did I really wear bathing suits, at the beach? [...] Shameful, immodest" - What does this suggest about Gilead's effects on Offred?
She is starting to internalise the prevailing misogyny of this patriarchal society - She hates her own body and feels shame for previously flaunting it
What does Offred think about when she's in the bath?
Her daughter
What had happened in the supermarket?
Someone tried to steal her baby
Offred figures that her daughter must be ___ years old now...
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"I am too important, too scarce, for that. I am a national resource." - Why?
Due to her (perceived) fertility (like all Handmaids)
