"Moira sitting on the edge of my bed, legs crossed, ankle on knee, in her purple overalls, one dangly earring, the gold fingernail she wore to be eccentric, a cigarette between her her stubby yellow-ended fingers. Let's go for a bear (37)."
This introduction of Moira shows the reader her character in the story right off. Atwood shows that she is Offred's rebel friend in college who Offred remembers fondly. This characterization foreshadows Moira's future in the up tight, religious society that both the girls end up in. She plainly does not fit in with it, being such a unique individual and rebel, and she ends up living life there in a very different way than most women in the society.
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