What is your Daisy theory (not that she’s Nicole/Holly or Angela or a baby from angel’s flight please)?

The Handmaid’s Tale

Okay, so this is my theory. I think Daisy is Joseph Lawrence’s child. June says that Daisy as a baby was taken out of Gilead by her parents at the beginning. Lawrence helped design the economy and cast system of Gilead. He was there in the beginning. He could have a child her age and a girl child at that. He knew things don’t work out well for girls in Gilead. June didn’t smuggled her out as a baby, Lawrence and his wife did. She later got to know the people on the outside that raised Daisy. He had ways of getting people and things out/in across borders throughout the whole series…a connection with Mayday/the resistance all along could have been possible.

Letting their baby go to Canada broke Eleanor and maybe hardened him. It definitely would have deteriorated Eleanor’s mental state even more to have given up her baby. But she loved babies and while he was not necessarily “fond” of children, he had a lot of perspective on them. He told Emily, “Losing a child is like losing a limb.” He regretted Gilead. He regretted handing it over to the religious freaks. He played a role and he didn’t want his child to grow up there. We get to see his bravery and his character development in the HMT and part of what made him lovable aside from his humor, was watching him soften and his heart grow, specifically around children (angel’s flight kids..wanting to help Hannah…and later Angela). He did want more for the girl’s of Gilead and we saw that especially in the end but the very devout men/Sons of Jacob did not.

Anyway. That’s mine. What’s yours?

Posted Apr 9, 2026, 9:23 PM UTC

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