Explain what the following quote tells us about Bernard's character. Explain what the quotations given below show us about each character....

Bernard Marx is something of a malcontent in the society
in which he lives.  He has something that went wrong with him (it seems) in his process
of being "bottled."  Therefore, he is a little too small and too dark.  This makes him
unhappy and his unhappiness shows up in this quote.

In this
society, everyone should be happy to be useful and to be in their proper place.  But
Bernard is not.  He is willing to say something as radical as that he wishes he wasn't
useful.

However, he is just a whiner, really, and I think
you can see that in this quote.  He doesn't do anything to be less useful -- he just
wishes he were.