We never learn her name. She is named for her Commander — 'Of Fred' — a grammatical possession. Everything Atwood does with Offred's name is the novel's argument in miniature: the state names her for a man, and she must carry that name while preserving her self inside it. Her narration is the resistance: quiet, ironic, literary, precise. She is not a hero in any conventional sense. She survives. She watches. She records. That is enough.