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Hooper is a young platoon commander in Charles’s Company during World War II. Hooper is not an enthusiastic soldier and is not popular with the authorities in the army. He is not very good at his job ,and Charles views him as an embodiment of the modern world, which he sees as inefficient, pedantic, and unglamorous. Charles also looks down on Hooper because he is working-class and because he will not make use of his servants.
Hooper – Quotes in Brideshead Revisited
The Brideshead Revisited quotes below are all either spoken by Hooper – or refer to Hooper –. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Gallipoli, Balaclava, Quebec, Lepanto, Bannockburn, Roncevales and Marathon—these, and the Battle in the West where Arthur fell, and a hundred such names whose trumpet-notes, even now in my sere and lawless state, called to me irresistibly across the intervening years with all the clarity and strength of boyhood, sounded in vain to Hooper.
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No, I said, not what it was built for. Perhaps that’s one of the pleasures of building, like having a son, wondering how he’ll grow up. I don’t know; I never built anything, and I forfeited the right to watch my son grow up. I’m homeless, childless, middle-aged, love-less. Hooper.
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Hooper – Quotes in Brideshead Revisited
The Brideshead Revisited quotes below are all either spoken by Hooper – or refer to Hooper –. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Prologue
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Gallipoli, Balaclava, Quebec, Lepanto, Bannockburn, Roncevales and Marathon—these, and the Battle in the West where Arthur fell, and a hundred such names whose trumpet-notes, even now in my sere and lawless state, called to me irresistibly across the intervening years with all the clarity and strength of boyhood, sounded in vain to Hooper.
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Epilogue
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No, I said, not what it was built for. Perhaps that’s one of the pleasures of building, like having a son, wondering how he’ll grow up. I don’t know; I never built anything, and I forfeited the right to watch my son grow up. I’m homeless, childless, middle-aged, love-less. Hooper.
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