jd 지훈’s Reviews > The Handmaid’s Tale > Status Update

"We may call Eurydice forth from the world of the dead, but we cannot make her answer; and when we turn to look at her we glimpse her only for a moment, before she slips from our grasp and flees."

so this is what literary blue balls feel like huh. MA'AM ATWOOD PLEASE EGGSPLAIN!!!

REVIEW TO COME for this feminist masterpiece!!! (istg i should do my review backlogs first before i open another book i—)

[14] 'I get paid, you get laid, I rhyme in my head.' some people complain about Offred being a baffling narrator but i'm just here dying from laughter because of her dark humor and sarcasm
[15] hUHHH? wait!!! i'm cONFUSION!!!
[16] only two chapters left and this even became more mysterious and confusing. for the love of god, the end is a big cliffhanger, isn't it???

[9] ‘To want is to have a weakness. It’s this weakness, whatever it is, that entices me. It’s like a small crack in a wall, before now impenetrable.’
[10] ’[Scrabble] was once the game of old women, old men, in the summers or in retirement villas, to be played when there was nothing good on television.’ damn Atwood really wants me to feel like a granddad, doesn't she?

[7] when things get clearer and you realize what the job of the Handmaids actually is. goddamn, i can never—
[8] so Atwood's non-use of quotation marks in some of the dialogue is a deliberate creative decision to highlight shifts of time settings, and arguably, to make the readers assess the accuracy of the narrator's memory. so damn brilliant! ma'am, i gotta stan!!!

[5] ‘The two others have purple placards hung around their necks: Gender Treachery. Their bodies still wear the Guardian uniforms. Caught together, they must have been, but where? A barracks, a shower?’ damn i'm gonna be so dead in Gilead HAHAHA
[6] ‘We lived, as usual, by ignoring. Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.’

i wanna analyze the text more but i'm tired af welp

[3] “He asks, are you happy,” says the interpreter. I can imagine it, their curiosity: Are they happy? How can they be happy?
“Yes, we are very happy,” I murmur. I have to say something. What else can I say?
[4] "This may not seem ordinary to you now, but after a time it will. It will become ordinary." chills omg

[1] now i understand why some people complain about Atwood not using quotation marks. it doesn't bother me much atm but let's see if it gets more confusing.
[2] "I enjoy the power; power of a dog bone, passive but there. I hope they get hard at the sight of us and have to rub themselves against the painted barriers, surreptitiously." feminist 1984, i see you!!!

okay so i'm back with the dystopian sci-fi game after the fiasco that happened with the last book i read woops

i trust Margaret Atwood to deliver a brilliant narrative which will shock me like how my beloved dystopian novels did

LET'S SEE HOW THIS GOES!!!