Dialectical Journals 15 and 16

Buzz, buzz! The hive was humming…..above the empty bottles!” (Pg. 147)

This is another reference to the theme and role that animals play in this book. Bloomsbury Centre is compared to a beehive. They work together in a structured setting. Each individual has a role to play and a job to perform with the Queen Bee being the Director. Like the Queen Bee, the Director has control over each egg and person’s destiny.

 

“The return to civilization was for her the return to soma……But we can’t.” (Pg 154)

Linda is still caught between two worlds: the civilized world and uncivilized Indian world. Both won’t accept her so she does what she has been taught to do since birth; turn to drugs. She uses alcohol to drown out her sorrows and help her cope in the Indian world and now has returned to soma. Both will eventually kill her, but soma will faster, and no one cares as long as they don’t have to deal with her. Even her own son realizes that it is easier to have her drugged out.