"I used to tease him about being pedantic." (11)
This says a lot about who Luke was, and what his personality was like. Atwood never went into specifics about what Luke was like, but with the use of the word pedantic, readers know that he was intelligent and wasn't afraid to flaunt it. He also didn't seem to intentionally be pedantic, however, because if Offred used to tease him about hit, he obviously didn't enjoy the accusations. Throughout the text we get subtle hints like this from Atwood, but never anything specific. A reader can pick up that that is Atwood's general writing style, as there really are very few specifics about anything in the whole text.
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http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/pedantic
This feels like a bit of a stretch. It's ambitious to make these connections -- I'm just not sure you are reaching a reasonable conclusion based on a single sentence.
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