The Handmaid's Tale--late

This is one depressing novel! Offred becomes more complacent with her situation and begins to manipulate those around her to be able to appreciate technologies from her past. It seems that this civilization is making no headway and in fact has backed up. She tries to thrive in this environment, attempts to get pregnant via Nick, gets magazines, lotion, cigarettes, etc to break the monotony of being a walking baby mill. They even use the phony pay for prayer booth to initiate her into the underground women. In the end all of this work does nothing for her and she gets shipped off by the Koresh-esq soldiers in their black van with the winged eyes--probably the end of her. Soon they'll be a new Offred to continue the vicious cycle. Who wouldn't want to commit suicide in a world like this?