When you're in love someone, it’s almost impossible not to worry about them, or wonder about their well being. In The Handmaid’s Tale, there is never a moment where Offred is not thinking about Luke, her husband. When they tried to escape Gilead, they were separated and Offred was never able to figure out what happened to him. The simplest of things reminds her of the time spent with her beloved. Offred never stops thinking of Luke, “I also believe that Luke is sitting up”, thinking about him keeps her sanity intact. She doesn’t hope for him to be alive, because he may be better off dead. Yet she wonders what he is doing, “In a rectangle somewhere, gray cement, on a ledge or the edge of something, a bed or chair”, imaging that Luke is on