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This quote is a simile that uses the word "as" to make an explicit comparison between the movement of specific men through a caste system and the movement of fish through water. It is understood that fish move very easily through water, and by comparison, the reader realizes that it is easy for these men to move through the caste system. The quote is the thoughts of Bernard Marx towards men such as Henry Foster and Benito Hoover. Bernard is expressing his jealousy towards men of a large stature that easily have control of humans in a lower caste. He explains that he feels uncomfortable bossing around lower classes. He is upset that even though he is of a higher class, he has a physical defect, where he is as small as a Delta. Rumor is that alcohol was accidentally put into his blood-surrogate, which gave him the defect. He is treated as an outsider to other Alphas because of his size. Bernard envies the control larger men have on a person in a lower caste.
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