at her mother was and in what she believed. We also infer from this memory that Offred felt betrayed and used by her mother and she even turns away and sulks. This particular memory gives us an insight into Offred's ambivalent feelings towards her mother and the sort of woman her mother was.
             Atwood created a first person narrator rather than an omnipresent narrator. Kaavya Viswanathan says in freshangles.com that 'her lack of information is part of the nightmare' which gives reason as to why Offred uses memories so much because she has very little knowledge of the totalitarian dystopia of which she is a victim. Offred is closer to a chronicler than a narrator in actual terms and because she has a very small amount of knowledge of her society it helps convince the reader that what she relates is informative and plausible. Atwood makes Offred a very believable character. Memories of her life before the rise of Gilead and her new life are from a personal and limited perspective making her an understandable and a very real character, which draw the reader into her world.
             Atwood uses memories to reveal Gilead
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