Lame imitation of Bronte's unreliable narrator, Lucy Snowe, and Du Maurier's nameless narrator in Rebecca. Throw in there Austen's Fanny Price for the weak-willed, resigned factor and you have the character of Offred, someone the reader dislikes and is practically rooting to be sent to the Colonies to end the reader's misery whilst reading this plotless intent of a novel. 
 Although considered by many to be a 'feminist' novel, it is anything but. It actually depicts how extreme feminism led to women's downfall and in turn gave more power to men. The main character is anything but a feminist as she goes against her kind: becoming a married man's lover, for instance, and later is certainly not sympathetic to other womens' plight, and is instead quite misogynistic. Women in general are depicted in a negative light, except for maybe Ofled, who had a bad ending, and Moira, who was also properly 'punished' for her 'independent' ways. 
 If one wishes to read a real feminist novel, one ahead of its time, I urge everyone not to waste their time in this drivel and read Anne Bronte's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, which shook Victorian society to its core to the extent of having her sister, Charlotte, taking it out of circulation after Anne's death due to the strong message sent out to all women.