handmaid's tale pg. 49-99

Offred goes to the doctor to see if she is pregnant. she isn't and the doctor offers to have sex with her, she refuses. the doctor say that most older men are sterile or to old. Offred finds this surprising because in Gilead there are suppose to be no sterile men.offred meats moira and secretly talks to her in the bathroom. Offred explains how the woman are forced to listen to the beatitudes playing over the tape player. Janine tells of how she was raped when she was 14, and is told by the aunts and other women that it was her fault because she led them on. In Geliead the women have almost no freedom whatsoever, unless you are a wife.