The Handmaid's Tale- Luke

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• Offred's husband
• kind and decent
• love's wife and daughter
• jokingly, Offred's mother calls him a chauvinist male 'piglet', ironic because he's clearly not
• comes up with the plan to escape Gilead
• gets caught, presumed dead
• Offred spends much of the novel, particularly the first half, contemplating where he is, latching on to memories of him, even though she knows him to be dead. memories of him keep her sane
• he is portrayed as a good man, but elements of his character show that he, being a man, will never be able to relate or fully understand Offred's struggle as a woman
• he wants to 'make love' after Offred loses her job, and he technically owns her at that point
• not portayed as malicious, but as…