"He's so ugly" "He's so small." "They say somebody made a mistake when he was still in the bottle- thought he was a Gamma and put alcohol into his blood-surrogate. That's why he's so stunted." (46)
Bernard Marx, being so un-intimidating, was no threat to his co-workers, even though he was wonderful at his job. Being a psychologist though, he dealt with aspects of this controlled culture like others did not have to. He saw the children who were abnormal, and not quite conditioning well. Since he saw what this was doing to them, he most likely was un-conditioned a bit himself. And, this un-conditioning made him socially awkward to the community. This coupled with his size and confidence level isolated him from society. He didn't have the confidence to change the false way he believed society was being run. So, he instead continued the charade, apparently unconvincingly, attending Ford day celebrations with faked ferver thinking that he could fool society.
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