To achieve vision in this way, thisjourney into a darkness that is composed of women, a woman, who can see indarkness while he himself strains blindly forward
This represents 1) Real and true, collective female power. And 2) A foreshadowing that a woman, god knows who, but perhaps his own wife, Serena Joy knows more than he does. This may be instead Offred, who we know makes an escape by the end of the novel and sort of "wins".
CHAPTER 15
This chapter gives off a strange sense of female power -- perhaps because they are all together. It gives off more female power than when one is alone.
. We have learned to see the world in gasps.
This line sums up their power in the form of little rebellions. More specifically, this sums up OFFRED's POWER. Offred's disjunction in terms of time matches closely with her blinders. Though she was never able to 1) escape from her past, 2) record her story continuously (as per the historical notes) she gained power by these bite-sized and disjointed "gasps" in order to share her female voice