In fact, the Parker offers a comprehensive analysis of food and power that is also the focus of the narrative of the handmaid's tale, when she claims to be one of the main ways that the repression regime is enforced through food. The maid has no choice about what to eat and allows them to consume only what the authorities consider to promote their health and fertility. . . By controlling what they eat, Gilead gains direct control over the body of the maid. (354) In fact they prove that figurative food is simply a means to control the power of women. By refusing food, the main characters in the novel also refuse to live under this repressive regime. Parker goes on, like Renee in prison, she ties food with freedom. One of her memories of the
