This is a book report on the theme of rooms in Edward Bellamy's novel Looking Backward. The original question asked us to delve into hidden messages in the book.

Julian West's Sleeping Room <Tab/>The bedroom of Julian West plays a key role in Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy. In this room, West is transported to the future as well as waking up in it at the end of the novel. <Tab/>The novel described this room as subterranean and soundproofed with walls and floors of hydraulic cement. Not being under the house directly, it had …

…and surroundings were much better then West had ever experienced and thus he enjoyed the experience. Another item West was surprised was that all men are required to commit to a term of servitude in the restaurant industry whereas in his time servers were the poor and illiterate people. <Tab/>There is no such system today, there are only hundreds of different types of restaurants all in competition with each other.