Linda

"There's so much one doesn't know; it wasn't my business to know." (page 122) 

The entrance of Linda's character set of lots of little light bulbs in my mind. I soon realized she was the woman the Director was so emotionally attached to until she became lost in the vast expanse of New Mexico. She had a son with this man; the man who runs a community that considers parenthood primeval and borderline disgusting. No wonder he doesn't like to talk about that whole situation. Linda has been in this "uncivilized" for, I'm guessing, close to 15 years and has still not adjusted. The conditioning, decanting, and fertilizing that happens in Bernard and Lenina's community clearly is meant for long term results. Linda still could repeat some of the verse she learned in her sleep for so many years. She still hadn't comprehended the way people "have each other" on the Reservation. This whole encounter helped to explain the extremity of the practices learned in the World State in London, and how vital it is that at least a few people like Bernard some how learn differently.