"Bernard dropped down to floor thity-three, hurried along the corridor, stood hesitating for a moment outside Room 3210, then having wound himself up, opened the door and walked in" (page 79).
The novel is told in a third person point of view. It continues to switch between the lives of the characters, but I am convinced that Bernard is one of the most essential characters to this novel. I can't help feel sorry for Bernard though. He lives in this society where everyone lives similarly, and he just tries to fit in. So many people are like this in today's world. In a sense, we all are different than one another, but we all try to fit in. It's just kind of dumb. We, as a society, have an intolerance for those who are different from us. We make fun of them and just wish they were normal. But what is normal? For years and years I tried to be someone that I wasn't. I would try on different personalities just to fit in. But after awhile, it just became old. I just wanted to be myself, but I was ashamed because I thought I was weird. Now I'm to the point where I think I'm normal and everyone else is weird. I'm just waiting for the day when we all stop caring about our differences and look at our similarities as human beings. Maybe that's the way society will be in this novel, but even the clones cannot tolerate indifferences within each other. This world (and the world I'm reading about) is such an odd place. Maybe Louis Armstrong should change the words to "What a Wonderful World" to "What an Odd World......."
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