Henry Foster
Henry is an Alpha administrator and one of Lenina’s regular sexual partners.
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Who they are in the book
Spoiler-freeHenry is an Alpha administrator and one of Lenina’s regular sexual partners. He is cheerful, efficient, and almost perfectly adjusted to the World State. He helps explain social norms because he treats them as obvious rather than oppressive. He suffers no major reversal and remains part of the system.
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