"...it's the rooms themselves I miss as well, even the dreadful paintings that hung on the walls..." (51)

     Offred's description of the hotel rooms she once stayed in uses sensory details to create a picture of carelessness and freedom  in the reader's mind. The sight of the paintings and wastebaskets and the idea of writing whatever one wants on a postcard evokes a time when women were treated as equals. In that time, women went to hotels for all kinds of things- meeting men, business trips, vacations - all of which are now forbidden for Offred.