Lenina Crowne Character Analysis

Lenina is a beautiful Beta woman who works as a nurse in the Hatchery. Her closest friend there is Fanny. Lenina is slightly unconventional in that she has a tendency to date only one man at a time, but otherwise she never challenges her conditioning. In fact, she’s disturbed by unorthodox behaviors like avoidance of sex, crowds, or soma, all of which she vastly enjoys. Over the course of the novel, she dates Henry Foster and Bernard Marx, but she ultimately becomes obsessed with John because he refuses to sleep with her. She finds him at the lighthouse at the end of the story, but he attacks her with cries of “strumpet!” before she can speak to him.