“The Handmaids Tale” Margaret Atwood Analysis of Serena joy What can we tell about Serena Joy and her attitudes to the regime and handmaids? The introduction to Serena Joy is quite hard to interpret in the way that it doesn’t seem to, and can’t, tell us much about her attitude and what she is thinking as it is written from the perspective of another person. However it does tell us rather a bit …showed first 75 words of 815 total…

…showed last 75 words of 815 total…regime itself. Secondly, it could be because Offred remembers Serena when she was a female presenter working equally with males and that now she has been forced to be below males, stand down and just be a ‘housewife’. It could even be that Offred remembers Serena as an attractive young woman and because of the regime she looks old, withered and run down. It is not clear but all of these theories could be true.