It narrates the story of Lila. We find her being the wife of the old preacher in Gilead. We learn throughher thoughts nd experiences, the life she hs had and the one that she is living now.
Being a girl, she is neglected by her family, and the point of being outside in the rain during whole nights. She is taken by a woman, Doll, and starts a life of wandering towns after possible jobs with a group of people. They spend the nights by the fire, and during days bathing in the river. There she thinks about loneliness, 'But if you're just a stranger to everybody onearth, then that's what you are and there's no end to it. You don't know the words to say.'
Lila learns to read during a year that Doll takes a job cleaning at a house. However, feeling always hunted by Doll's past, they move from town to town, their lives fragile, spending their days isolated from the communities they pass around.
Soon Depression comes and the author depicts how difficult their lives become 'How could it be that none of it mattered? It was most of what happened. But if it did matter, how could the world go on the way it did when there were so many people living the same and worse? Poor was nothing, tired and hungry were nothing. But people only trying to get by, and no respect for them at all, even the wind soiling them.'
The author makes us question our beliefs and position towards our lives in this world. Through Lila's memories and reflections, we learn her new days as the wife of a preacher, carrying a child that soon would be her first encounter to the entity of family, her struggle to live a life fully, her past always hunting her dreams.
Ana Ovejero
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