An interesting part of Atwood’s writing is her use of flashbacks within the novel. Whenever she uses them it serves as an abrupt break in the story, where it serves to show us some sort of more information about Offred’s past. While exploring the past, you may notice the general mannerisms of the protagonist, whom at the time believes in her own monotonous lifestyle. Atwood seems to structure a sort of commentary with Offred whenever she experiences something. I believe this is to be a pretty interesting structure as it’s similar to many works such as within a setting of a movie, where you’d hear the inner monologue of the reaction that would arrive from a specific character. It’s interesting to note how descriptive of flashbacks that Atwood constructed from, creating a monotone atmosphere which is congruent to the daily life that the main character used to always experience, but in comparison to her now present life, it contained more of her inner thoughts and how she tries to survive the day to day tyranny from the oppression of a new regime. It’s an interesting process to switch from a monotonous free life, to a forced sheltered and degrading one. They are almost structured as the same thing, but ultimately both the narrator and the reader both look forward and relish in the detail of it. For example, for the readers they take interest in how shocking how the daily lifestyle of a handmaid is, but the contrast between the normalcy of such a lifestyle was shows how contrasting it is. Obviously for the handmaid, it serves as some sort of refresher for herself when she ponders her thoughts as well as serving as a tool for the narrator to use to show us a more detailed thought process. In specific, I find the passage containing Offred’s descent to madness was within chapter 28. It shows that Moira is a key-point of her thoughts due to the inherent mystery of her freedom, as well as her reliance on her. Apparently, the thought of such freedom is what gives Offred power to basically live on within such oppression. Many times, whenever she thinks of such of Moira, it serves as some sort of a trigger where she could possibly pull back into the flashback. And through this flashback, it emphasizes the contrast between her lives. For example, it describes the daily actions such as drinking coffee, sitting at a kitchen table, and speaking in certain voices. At this point, it shows her positive lifestyle of just living through the days, but once she got laid off of work, things start going wrong. Her card starts being denied and the banks refuse to acknowledge her ownership of $2000. All due to the fact that women couldn’t own anything, that fact started to show signs of shock inside of Offred, where everybody’s voices started to change tones. For example, her mother’s tone turned serious as well as Moira’s, but in contrast Luke’s tone turns sympathetic, but she refuses to put her arms around him. Why not? It’s as if she hates the fact that he retained his ability to own, while as she couldn’t retain such a right. This then on leads to how her realization of her world suddenly starts turning smaller, with realizing the differences of the army. The army that is of not of her own. Her denial to make love with her Husband, shows her inherent regret on the issue, but also shows her rage on the apparent shock of the situation.