Roberts Character Analysis in The Glass Hotel

Roberts was an older man who was assigned to Jonathan Alkaitis’s prison bunk before Alkaitis arrived there. He left the message “no star burns forever” scratched into the cell wall before being transferred to the prison hospital. Roberts’s message resonates with Alkaitis, who relates it to the success and eventual collapse of his Ponzi scheme.

Roberts Character Timeline in The Glass Hotel

The timeline below shows where the character Roberts appears in The Glass Hotel. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.

...forever” are carved into the wall next to Alkaitis’s bunk. His cellmate, Hazelton, explains that Roberts, a man who was there before Alkaitis, wrote them. Alkaitis was arrested in December of... (full context)