It's possible that Linda doesn't look as aged and overweight as described, since the scene is presented through Bernard's and Lenina's eyes. Fordians might be conditioned to the point where even Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren would cause shrieks of horror.
The Linda-John relationship is confusing. She resembles real-life parents with addictions, but he doesn't quite fit the personality of someone who grew up in a dysfunctional household. And John's experience is not that of a second-generation immigrant influenced by two worlds - the Fordian world and its ideology are merely a faraway dream for him. Instead, he functions to a large extent as a doppelganger for Bernard, as if Huxley could describe the contrasting World State and Reservation cultures only from the perspectives of characters who don't fit in.
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Date: 2017-10-30 10:16 pm (UTC)The Linda-John relationship is confusing. She resembles real-life parents with addictions, but he doesn't quite fit the personality of someone who grew up in a dysfunctional household. And John's experience is not that of a second-generation immigrant influenced by two worlds - the Fordian world and its ideology are merely a faraway dream for him. Instead, he functions to a large extent as a doppelganger for Bernard, as if Huxley could describe the contrasting World State and Reservation cultures only from the perspectives of characters who don't fit in.