If only I could embroider. Weave, knit, something to do with myhands.
Here it seems that she is envious of Serena Joy's way of passing time.
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"You could have left me something."
As a wife, she feels she has nothing. Just like Offred, they both have what the other wants and yet each feels like she has nothing -- in that way they are parallels of each other
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I see thetwo of us, a blue shape, a red shape, in the brief glass eye of the mirror as wedescend. Myself, my obverse.
Showing her double (twin) -- Offred and Serena are doubles. Red and Blue
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I can hardly believe theAngels have a need for such scarves; anyway, the ones made by theCommander's Wife are too elaborate. She doesn't bother with the cross-and-star pattern used by many of the other Wives, it's not a challenge. Fir treesmarch across the ends of her scarves, or eagles, or stiff humanoid figures, boyand girl, boy and girl. They aren't scarves for grown men but for children
This says something about Serena Joy: She is longing for a story and herself is unconventional. Although all she can make is artificial. And it represents her beliefs in these scarves, which in some sense contradicts the hierarchical structure in Gilead.
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which must once have been fine and was stillfinely kept, the fingernail at the end of the knuckly finger filed to a gentlecurving point
Could it be that her vanity, which she puts so much attention to, is mocking her because even with all this luxury, she fails to feel satisfied in her marriage with the Commander (in relation to the Handmaid's with their lack of vanity, but who have their fertility?
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