brave new world 2

I recently pretty much ended this book. The rest is just the preface. But the ending in a way was sad. "The Savage" hung himself because of all the negative attention that was directed towards him. But before all of this, The Savage chose to live a different life. He wanted to feel pain, and sorrow, and all the things you couldn't feel or be before. If he never decided to do that, he may be still alive right now. The story ends with a group of people, that came to watch him in his odd ways, realize his front door is slightly open. They go inside wondering where he is. It doesn't acutally say that he hung himself. This here is the passage Huxley uses to hint at the event, "The door of the lighthouse was ajar. They pushed it open and walked into a shuttered twilight. Through an archway on the further side of the room they could see the bottom of the staricase that led up to the higher floors. Just under the crown of the arch dangled a pair of feet." And then he says, " Slowly, very slowly, like two unhurried compass needles, the feet turned towards the right; north, north-east, east, south-east, south, south-south-west; then paused, and, after a few seconds runed as unhurriedly back towards the left. South-south-west, south, south-east, east...."