When Ofglen later asks Offred to spy on her commander, Offred chooses not to.
When the government first outlaws jobs for women, she does not take to the streets to protest. In the book, Offred is a passive character. MORE: Margaret Atwood and Elisabeth Moss on the Urgency of The Handmaid’s Tale Offred is more headstrong June is also more rebellious in the show than the book (more on that below), so revealing her real name to the audience feels like an appropriate act of defiance for this iteration of the character. It would be difficult to film flashbacks in which no characters used June’s name. Likely, the writers chose to reveal her name for practical purposes.
At the end of the first episode of the show, Offred reveals that her real name is, indeed, June.
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