Commander Kyle is Agnes’s legal father, though they are of no biological relation. Commander Kyle is an important political figure in Gilead who is often busy and has no relationship with Agnes whatsoever—as she grows up, she rarely sees him. After his wife Tabitha dies of an apparent illness, Commander Kyle marries Paula. However, when Agnes is an adult living in Ardua Hall, Lydia reveals evidence of Paula’s affair with Kyle before they were married. Lydia also reveals that Paula murdered her first husband, which implies to Agnes that Tabitha was also murdered by Commander Kyle so that he could marry Paula.
Commander Kyle Quotes in The Testaments
The The Testaments quotes below are all either spoken by Commander Kyle or refer to Commander Kyle. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 18
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The truth was that they’d cut Crystal open to get the baby out, and they’d killed her by doing that. It wasn’t something she chose. She hadn’t volunteered to die with noble womanly honor or be a shining example, but nobody mentioned that.
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Commander Kyle Quotes in The Testaments
The The Testaments quotes below are all either spoken by Commander Kyle or refer to Commander Kyle. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 18
Quotes
The truth was that they’d cut Crystal open to get the baby out, and they’d killed her by doing that. It wasn’t something she chose. She hadn’t volunteered to die with noble womanly honor or be a shining example, but nobody mentioned that.
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