"I have to let you go, it's the law, I have to. You can't work here any more."
This quote is taken from the past before Gilead Regime, the time when women were allowed to work and working was seen as normal for women. The manager tells them to leave or else they will kill me. Offred loses her job at that stage and that is when subjugation begins. The term subjugation is defined as oppression of women, making women the subject. In the quote, the word law which is a noun, this phrase justifies the reason they have to leave their jobs and shows that the subjugation was brought by the new law. Everyone needs to follow the law, therefore when the manager mentions the decision made by them affects the reason they leave the workplace immediately.
The modal verb can't shows they no longer have the choice to stay there, they have to leave to survive. The choice is been taken away from the manager himself, its the choice that is taken away from all of them by the law which needs to be followed at all times. The fact that the person telling them is a man suggests the difference between the gender at that moment, the man controls and commands the women, as this will happen in the future, the commander's role in the Gilead society.
In this chapter, the whole society begins to change. It starts with Offred's bank card not working, then she loses her job by the law. These suggest how the new society is building and women's freedom from doing such things.
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