chap 3

• narrator ventures outside, impressions wider world, dystopian yet physical world seemingly unchanged but natural world seems hurting or damaged 'willow,weeping' or 'tulip...cut' garden domain commander wife irony infertile serena ... 'many of the wives have such gardens' sitch mirrored
• Remembers 5 weeks back when first met serena

  'so, you're the new one' hostile tone stablished social hierarchy or group dynamic: offred hoped 'I wanted then, to turn her into... a motherly figure' as previous placement wife bedroom drank
• Serena warns declaring 'till death do us part' insecurity relationship


  recognises serena blonde,petit(women) with a snub nose and large blue eyes' her blonde hair and blue eyes could symbolize purity, while her snub nose might suggest a certain level of assertiveness or defiance. sang evangelical American tv programme late 1970s 'it was worst than I thought'