By examining the lives of these two different women, one who lives in the modern society and the other who lives on a reservation, we can see that regardless of where they live, a women is expected to act and behave in a manner that is approved by society. There is a danger to stepping out of line.
Lenina, unlike Linda, lives in the midst of civilization where sex is supposed to be shared and practiced regularly: “everyone belongs to everyone else” (43). For Lenina, she is particularly attracted to Henry Foster, with whom she has been sleeping with for the past few months, without sleeping with someone else. However Lenina’s friend, Fanny, immediately responds to Lenina with an “incongruous expression of pained and disproving astonishment” (40). Fanny