Smith makes the reader wonder whether gender is simply biological or, as Butler argues, whether it is a performance enacted day-to-day because it is the way which society has built us to act. Robin is in the novel the manifestation of everything that society would label as a boy, yet his biological sex is that of a girl. Smith writes that Robin makes love as both a girl and a boy, and in doing so emphasizes that love does not have a gender. Unlike Smith's Girl Meets Boy, in which the social construction of gender is dismantled and reassembled in different ways, The Handmaid's Tale makes clear that Gilead society's view of gender relies heavily on sex, and that love is truly type. Atwood begins her novel, focusing primarily on women's actions and attitudes, describing how women have evolved from previous eras. He continues to identify changes, such as "felt skirt like I knew from the photos, then miniskirts, then pants, then an earring, spiky hair with green streaks." As mentioned above regarding Butler's theory, gender is not a starting point, but an identity that is repeatedly constructed