Summer 07 Early Handmaid

In the early chapters of a Handmaid's tale, the narrator (real name unknown) is really annoying. She seems like a pushover, just letting the powers that be force her into second class status. She spends so much time bewindered and not fighting back while her rights are stripped away, like her right to work, own things, travel by herself and more. And that boyfriend/husband of her's, Luke just seems to not be bothered by things as much as he ought to be. It's annoying, and it made me want to scream at her for being such a doormat. She waits far to late before she tries to escape and you can't help but know what sort of pain is coming; it's like reading a novel based on the holocaust where everyone thinks that things will get better, that the restrictions are temporary, and the while I, as a reader, just have to sit there and watch it all fall apart and the narrator turn into a doll.