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Joelle works on Floor 17 of Jonathan Alkaitis’s business, in the firm’s asset management branch, and is therefore complicit in the Ponzi scheme. She struggles over what to tell her husband about her role in the scheme, unsure of whether to come clean or feign ignorance. She has kids and is scared of not being able to see them, should she serve time for her role in Alkaitis’s scheme. The night before Alkaitis’s arrest, Joelle and Harvey stay late to destroy important documents. Harvey pours them both a glass of scotch. Though he gives Joelle enough to get her drunk, he pours himself considerably less, so as to remain sober enough to concentrate on saving documents he might use as leverage with authorities. Joelle ultimately serves a prison sentence for her role in the Ponzi scheme, and she moves in with her sister in North Carolina after her release.
Joelle Quotes in The Glass Hotel
The The Glass Hotel quotes below are all either spoken by Joelle or refer to Joelle. 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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Chapter 11: Winter
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“I mean, here’s the question,” Joelle said, “and I’d be genuinely interested to hear your thoughts: How did he know we’d do it? Would anyone do something like this, given enough money, or is there something special about us? Did he look at me one day and just think, That woman seems conveniently lacking in a moral center, that person seems well suited to participate in a—"
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Joelle Quotes in The Glass Hotel
The The Glass Hotel quotes below are all either spoken by Joelle or refer to Joelle. 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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Chapter 11: Winter
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“I mean, here’s the question,” Joelle said, “and I’d be genuinely interested to hear your thoughts: How did he know we’d do it? Would anyone do something like this, given enough money, or is there something special about us? Did he look at me one day and just think, That woman seems conveniently lacking in a moral center, that person seems well suited to participate in a—"
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