Summer 07 Later Handmaid

As the novel progresses, the narrator (offred) forgets a lot of how the world used to work. I'm not sure that I really buy it. It doesn't seem like it's been a long time since the changes started and yet she forgets so many things that it seems like you'd never be able to forget without getting hit on the head or something, like what used to be in the old university buildings, that having a baby takes both a healthy woman and healthy seimen, what money used look like, and so forth. She seems less and less like a woman to me and more like a small child in how she'll cling to anything. She still goes along with almost anything that the system forces onto her, from only giving her scrapes of informative by crappy, biased TV, to tuning out during conversations when her shopping partner hooks her up with the grapevine of risistance workers. I found myself thinking that she must have been a real ditz before the changes took place for her to be such an ingorant doormat towards the end of the book. About the only thing that she stands up for is sneaking around to sleep with Nick and even then she doesn't challenge him or trust him; she keeps considering killiing herself instead.