Bernard+and+the+Director

What?
 * Bernard visits the director's office after his date with Lenina
 * The two have a high tension conversation, the basis for which is Bernard's request for permission to take a vacation to the savage reserve
 * The director tells Bernard of his own trip to the new Mexican reservation
 * Bernard learns of the woman who the Director left behind (presumed dead) in the reservation
 * The director becomes angry with Bernard as he just showed his own weakness with the story
 * Bernard is condemned for reports of his behavior, people saying that he is odd
 * The director makes the threat to send Bernard to Iceland if he does not improve his behavior.
 * Bernard leaves, extremely happy with himself for receiving this threat from the DHC, and boasts to Helmholtz about it, Helmholtz likes Bernard, but is annoyed by this boasting

Why?
 * To foreshadow possible problems Lenina and Bernard may face at the reservation
 * To show another side of the DHC, and then immediately switch him back to his controlling, familiar side
 * To give the reader a better understanding of Bernard and Helmholtz's relationship
 * To characterize Bernard by showing how he exaggerates, boasts, and hopes for sympathy in Helmholtz's presence
 * To show the process for getting a vacation in the future, and how Bernard gets the permit to leave in the first place

How?
 * Narrator gives us the background of how Bernard had the paper signed by Mustafa Mond and what he intended to do in the DHC's office
 * Dialogue between Bernard and the Director gives the reader the Director's story and his threats to Bernard
 * Dialogue of the Director provides an anecdote and a flashback about his experiences
 * The Narrator shows the reader Bernard's pride at angering the DHC and how the Director himself feels about all this
 * The Narrator also provides the interaction between Helmholtz and Bernard, as well as a better look into their friendship