passages from “The Handmaid’s Tale” that make me wonder why they thought incorporating a love triangle made sense
when she goes to the sitting room to steal something to feel a sense of control.. little does she know..
I don't answer. He too is illegal, here, with me, he can't give me away. Nor I him; for the moment we're mirrors. He puts his hand on my arm, pulls me against him, his mouth on mine, what else comes from such denial? Without a word. Both of us shaking, how I'd like to. In Serena's parlor, with the dried flowers, on the Chinese carpet, his thin body. A man entirely unknown. It would be like shouting, it would be like shooting someone. My hand goes down, how about that, I could unbutton, and then. But it's too dangerous, he knows it, we push each other away, not far. Too much trust, too much risk, too much already.
"I was coming to find you," he says, breathes, almost into my ear. I want to reach up, taste his skin, he makes me hungry. His fingers move, feeling my arm under the nightgown sleeve, as if his hand won't listen to reason, It's so good, to be touched by some-one, to be felt so greedily, to feel so greedy. Luke, you'd know, you'd understand. It's you here, in another body. Bullshit.
she knows neither can replace the other, they’re their own person, who are not the same.
What the Commander said is true. One and one and one and one doesn't equal four. Each one remains unique, there is no way of joining them together. They cannot be exchanged, one for the other. They cannot replace each other. Nick for Luke or Luke for Nick. Should does not apply.
she admits she wants to stay with Nick, she admits she came back to life with him, she ADMITS she’s never felt that way before with a man
Telling this, I'm ashamed of myself. But there's more to it than that. Even now, I can recognize this admission as a kind of boasting.There's pride in it, because it demonstrates how extreme and therefore justified it was, for me. How well worth it. It's like stories of illness and near-death, from which you have recovered; like stories of war. They demonstrate seriousness. Such seriousness, about a man, then, had not seemed possible to me before.
i could add more. and even when she’s talking about Luke, there is love there, but not like this. when she talks about wanting to memorize Nick, that she should’ve done that with Luke, that last passage i posted supports the theory, the feelings are deeper in a way.
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