Garth Character Analysis in The Testaments

Garth is a man in his mid-20s, a Mayday operative who helps shelter Ada and Nicole while they are hiding from Gilead’s operatives. While Garth is teaching Nicole how to keep fit and to fight in preparation for her mission into Gilead, Nicole develops a substantial crush on him. This only increases while Garth and Nicole are posing as a boyfriend and girlfriend living together on the street, with the goal of getting the Pearl Girls to pick Nicole up and bring her back to Gilead with them as a convert. When Agnes and Nicole land on the beach upon returning to Canada, Garth is there to meet them on the shore.

Garth Character Timeline in The Testaments

The timeline below shows where the character Garth appears in The Testaments. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.

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...must move again. Ada takes Nicole downstairs to another apartment, which belongs to someone named Garth, and warns Nicole that she might not like what’s coming next. (full context)

Garth, a 25-year-old man, comes in dressed all in black. He’s arranged another industrial van, which... (full context)

...back, each with a mattress and blanket in it. Nobody in the store except for Garth knows who Nicole is, and they intend to keep it that way. Garth leaves to... (full context)

...about it, everyone acts as if she has and she is swept into it anyway. Garth sets up a makeshift gym in the cubicles and starts training Nicole for several hours... (full context)

...to remember it all. They tell Nicole that she’ll pose as a street person with Garth, who will be there to watch out for her, posing as her boyfriend. Hopefully Nicole... (full context)

Garth tells Nicole—she’ll go by Jade during the mission—that once they’re on the streets, she’ll need... (full context)

Nicole, now going by Jade as instructed, begins living on the streets with Garth, both wearing old ratty clothes like street people. Jade is secretly infatuated with Garth but... (full context)

As they are sitting on the sidewalk, two Pearl Girls approach and Garth warns Jade to stay silent. When they ask Jade if he is prostituting her and... (full context)

For the next several days, Jade and Garth live together in the streets, sleeping under bridges or in a cemetery. Garth wraps his... (full context)

On the fifth day, while Garth is away getting food from a fast-food joint, the Pearl Girls approach Jade while she... (full context)

...to sleep in a bed after nearly a week on the streets, but she misses Garth. Over the next few days, they take Jade to the Gilead embassy to be photographed... (full context)

...only people she has for company in Gilead. She misses Ada and Elijah and especially Garth, and wonders if Garth is dating anyone. Jade is especially anxious about their supposed source... (full context)

...ahead of them and voices approach. Ada, holding a flashlight, comes down to them and Garth scoops Nicole up in his arms. At the top of the hill, TV cameramen are... (full context)

...is less swollen and painful. Agnes is sitting next to her, and Ada, Elijah, and Garth are there as well. Ada and Elijah tell Nicole that she and Agnes are on... (full context)