What does Offred think about when she's in the bath?
Her daughter
Offred figures that her daughter must be ___ years old now...
8
What had happened in the supermarket?
Someone tried to steal her baby
"I am too important, too scarce, for that. I am a national resource." - Why?
Due to her (perceived) fertility (like all Handmaids)
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 My body seems outdated.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
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