Atwood shows how a mirror can contort a handmaids’ identity by enforcing how they are supposed to view their bodies. During Offred’s time at the Re-Education Center, the Aunts brainwash the Handmaids to accept the new ways of the Gilead society. It was the Aunts fear that the handmaids would get a hold of the mirror and use the glass as a weapon against the Aunts and/or themselves. Atwood’s a conclusion to have only a few scattered mirrors in the Red Center is to remind the Handmaids that they are alienated ‘breeders’. Offred is walking through the halls and noticed a mirror on the wall. “There remains a mirror, on the hall wall. If I turn my head so that the white wings framing my face direct my vision towards it, I can see as I go down the
