Once again, Miller explained the reasoning to INSIDER. Offred internally wonders if she dyes her hair blond to cover up the grey.īut the show's version of Serena is played by Australian actress Yvonne Strahovski, who was 34 during season one. In Atwood's novel, Serena Joy's age is never explicitly stated, but she has arthritis and uses a cane.

' Would some people,' she wrote, 'be affronted by the use of the Harvard wall as a display area for the bodies of the executed? (They were.)' In a recent essay for the New York Times, Atwood revealed that some of her geographical details proved to be controversial after the book was published. Atwood has confirmed this multiple times. Contextual clues make it fairly clear that Offred's section of Gilead used to be Cambridge, Massachusetts. Readers who are familiar with Harvard University's campus will recognize this description, which most likely refers to the wall of Harvard Yard. 'Like the sidewalks, it's red brick, and must once have been plain but handsome.' ' The Wall is hundreds of years old too or over a hundred, at least,' Offred narrates in the book. In the book, the Wall is a much more identifiable structure. In one scene, they're forced to scrub blood off its surface. On the show, the Handmaids often walk past a massive gray wall where the bodies of criminals are displayed.

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