Offred Offred is the narrator of the story. She is a thirty-three-year-old woman who is assigned to the Commander as his Handmaid
We never learn her real name (Offred means “Of Fred,” her Commander), and we know little about her physical appearance. She has brown hair, stands about five foot seven, and is 33 years old.
Moira in the time before Gilead, wearing overalls, an earring, one gold fingernail, and smoking.
She thinks of Moira’s energy and freckles
The Commander has gray hair, wears a black suit, and looks “like a Midwestern bank president.”
Serena Joy She suffers from arthritis and walks with a cane. identifiable by her blue Commander’s Wife robes
Offred thinks that Serena Joy should accept that she’s “withered”[/quote]
Rita is a "Martha." She is a woman of about sixty and is the cook in the Commander's household. She is rather bad-tempered and Offred does not get along with her.