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Yvette Bertolli is one of Jonathan Alkaitis’s former investment associates, a highly “elegant” older woman. She loses $320 million of her clients’ money to Alkaitis’s Ponzi scheme and dies of a heart attack when news of the scheme breaks. Bertolli is one of the ghosts Alkaitis sees during his time in prison.
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Yvette Bertolli Character Timeline in The Glass Hotel
The timeline below shows where the character Yvette Bertolli appears in The Glass Hotel. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 4: A Fairy Tale
...“shadow” to Vincent as they sit together on the terrace at the villa in Nice. Yvette Bertolli, one of Jonathan’s investors, who had accompanied them, has just retired to the guest...
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Chapter 12: The Counterlife
In prison, Alkaitis steps outside one morning and sees Yvette Bertolli, he thinks, though this is impossible, as Yvette is dead. He’d first met her...
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Alkaitis continues to see ghosts from his past parading around the prison yard: he sees Yvette Bertolli, Olivia, Faisal, and a middle-aged man he doesn’t know. He is aware of four...
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...makeup. She greets him, explaining that she’s “just visiting.” He looks behind himself and sees Yvette and Faisal. When Alkaitis turns back around, Vincent is gone.
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Chapter 16: Vincent in the Ocean
...visiting,” but doesn’t say from where, as she’s distracted by the sight of Faisal and Yvette Bertolli walking past the window. Vincent’s consciousness flashes much further into the future; she sees...
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