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Geoffrey Bell
Mendoza is the steward of the Neptune Cumberland and is Vincent’s boss during her time aboard the ship. He got along well with Vincent while she worked there. When Saparelli and Prevant board the Neptune Cumberland to investigate Vincent’s disappearance, Mendoza discreetly informs them of a time, years back, when he heard Geoffrey Bell hit a woman he was seeing at the time. Given the fact that Bell and Vincent were in a relationship at the time of her disappearance, Mendoza thinks this information might be useful to the investigation. Ultimately, however, Mendoza’s information is left unused when, wanting to avoid a publicity scandal for the shipping company, Saparelli discounts Mendoza’s information and rules that Vincent’s death was an accident.
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Felix Mendoza Character Timeline in The Glass Hotel
The timeline below shows where the character Felix Mendoza appears in The Glass Hotel. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 7: Seafarer
...Cumberland, a container ship, off of Port Newark in August 2013. Geoffrey Bell and Felix Mendoza, the ship’s third mate and steward, welcome her aboard. Tonight, Vincent will start working as...
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Chapter 13: Shadow Country
...though the chief engineer contends that “they were rather discreet” as a couple. The steward, Mendoza, who was Vincent’s boss, calls her “competent” and good to work with. He also recalls...
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Saparelli asks if Vincent ever seemed depressed, but Mendoza says she seemed happy: she’d travel all around the world while she wasn’t at sea,...
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...time the investigation wraps up. As Leon and Saparelli are about to leave the ship, Mendoza reappears and offers to walk them out. Saparelli initially declines, but Leon can sense something...
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...each other in the car. They both scribble in their notebooks; Leon tries to transcribe Mendoza’s transcription word for word and assumes that Saparelli is doing the same.
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...hands it to him, and Saparelli removes and pockets the pages on which Leon transcribed Mendoza’s confession. Saparelli then confronts Leon, informing him that he knows all about his transient lifestyle...
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Saparelli contends that while Mendoza might have told them “an unsettling anecdote,” it changes nothing about the investigation or the...
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Chapter 16: Vincent in the Ocean
...time, to the moment when Geoffrey leaves the ship at the Port of Rotterdam, despite Mendoza’s warning that it makes him look guilty. He looks “so alone and so bereft,” and...
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