Offred is back in her room and she’s contemplating suicide. She does this with a clever syntactical inversion (showing the importance of word order in a sentence). The phrase, “What are you waiting for?” implies the action is already known: suicide. But saying, “For what are you waiting?” places emphasis on the “what.” That means she’s also contemplating the possibilities of what will come now if she doesn’t commit suicide. For the former Ofglen, the “what” was the Eyes. The former Ofglen, and the former Offred, committed suicide. So what is she waiting for? In chapter 7 she had implied that she wanted to be “out of time.” There was too much time to be filled. Now, there is no time, “at last.” That seems to bring her peace. There is no more “suspense,” no more to worry about. In two lone sentences, she says that there’s no one in the garden. This could mean that there’s no one left in Paradise. The Fall of Man is complete, Adam and Eve have been evicted. (This may be a bit of a stretch,...