Offred: An Analysis
The book opens with a description in which women are in a difficult situation. Two women guard women that are not allowed to speak or they will be punished by the watchmen. The patrollers of the grounds are ironically known as Angels. For some strange women these people do not look at the people on the grounds. Moving forward, the main character Offred is presented in a new place and he is in a room that is not particularly nice place. Based upon the descriptions it seems very prison like. Later, there are descriptions of different characters of the book and what they wear including the Handmaids, the Marthas, and the Wives. There are even some social boundaries between the groups and restrictions on what some of the people in groups can do.