Lydia discovers that women are all highly-educated and divided into groups according to profession: doctors, lawyers and judges, professors, etc. More women arrive to the stadium each day and are divided into individual groups many are interned with Anita and Lydia, while others are killed in mass executions. While well-aware that a coup or regime change has occurred in the United States, Lydia is confused as to why she and Anita have been taken to the stadium and what its purpose is. They witness a mass killing of older, educated female professionals. Anita and Lydia, however, are seized, and taken to a stadium. Tessa, a receptionist in her late twenties, was seemingly placed on a waiting list to be potentially married off to a low-ranking man in the new regime. Katie, as an unmarried young woman pregnant via sperm donor, is found to be afoul of the newly enacted religious laws and is taken to the Red Center, destined to become a Handmaid. Constitution - their office is overrun by soldiers. As they are discussing the new laws - and the abolished U.S. When women's credit cards are cancelled (and their property legally transferred to their husbands or nearest male relatives), Lydia is informed of the change by her colleagues Katie and Anita.
She volunteered at a rape crisis center, but quit because she lacked the time and because it "wore her down."īy the time of the rise of the Gilead regime, Lydia is a middle-aged woman and working as a well-respected judge. She was a school teacher for two terms, but soon returned to family law. She had a few male lovers throughout her life, but no long-term relationships. She later graduates and begins to work as a family court judge.Īunt Lydia had an abortion when she was young, and a brief marriage that was a mistake. Lydia is the first in her family to attend college, and has to work "crappy" jobs throughout higher education.
Personality Story In the Past Before Gilead She considers herself to once have been handsome, but by her seventies, laments the effects that age have had on her. She has the "tremulous smile of a beggar", her long and yellowish front teeth sticking out a little. 2.3 Present Following The Handmaid's Tale.
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