Link Arwaker Character Analysis

Link Arwaker is one of Titus’s friends. A rich, spoiled kid from an absurdly wealthy family, Link is unattractive, but he’s used to being treated like royalty nevertheless—since, in the materialist, consumerist society of Feed, being wealthy is more important than being attractive. Over the course of the novel, Link is shown to be a callow, simple-minded, self-absorbed young person—and in this way, he’s the exact kind of human being a consumerist society produces. In an amusing twist, it’s revealed that Link is the biological clone of none other than President Abraham Lincoln (explaining both his name and why Link is so tall). Link and Lincoln—the spoiled brat and the noble politician—have exactly the same genetic makeup. The difference, of course, is that Lincoln worked hard to become a great leader, whereas Link has never worked a day in his life.