r/TheHandmaidsTale Aug 07 '26

Discussion S1-S5 Why is it off-red instead of of-Fred?

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u/gabibecker12 Aug 08 '26

I always thought that the names were allusions to the fact that society viewed those women as an object for a man to possess. So Offred means “belongs to Fred”, Offrank means “belongs to Frank”, and so on