For a while, Bernard serves as his friend John's guardian and grabs from the attention that he receives from it. Having a false sense of being because of John, he begins to openly criticize some of the things in the brave new world, but he lacks the courage of his convictions and always fails when put to the tests. Labeled as an outsider, Bernard revels in gets filled with anger and disgust at those who reject him. To his people like Helmholtz, he brags and whines about his anti-social feelings of rebelliousness, yet when faced with upper class society, he is a coward. He then shows to be a hypocrite. When compared with John and Helmholtz, Bernard remains shallow and uninteresting, ignoring his loneliness and obvious pain. His experience with
