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Louis is a big man who can seem like a simple farm boy on the surface but who hides greater complexity, and he spends much of his life in a relationship with Richard. Clarissa, Louis, and Richard all knew one another in college and seemed to even attempt a polyamorous relationship, but Clarissa’s incompatibility with Louis ultimately led to Richard and Louis forming their own partnership. Louis was not always happy with Richard, particularly when it seemed like Richard was still obsessing over Clarissa, but in the end, it was Richard who decided to end the relationship. After Richard, Louis frequently has relationships with his much-younger students, suggesting that like Richard and Clarissa, he is anxious about aging and clings in vain to his youth.
Louis Quotes in The Hours
The The Hours quotes below are all either spoken by Louis or refer to Louis. 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 4: Mrs. Dalloway
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Richard’s chair, particularly, is insane; or, rather, it is the chair of someone who, if not actually insane, has let things slide so far, has gone such a long way toward the exhausted relinquishment of ordinary caretaking—simple hygiene, regular nourishment—that the difference between insanity and hopelessness is difficult to pinpoint. The chair—an elderly, square, overstuffed armchair obesely balanced on slender blond wooden legs—is ostentatiously broken and worthless.[…] Richard will not hear of its being replaced.
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Chapter 11: Mrs. Dalloway
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The truth is that he does not love Hunter and Hunter does not love him. They are having an affair; only an affair. He fails to think of him for hours at a time. Hunter has other boyfriends, a whole future planned, and when he’s moved on, Louis has to admit, privately, that he won’t much miss Hunter’s shrill laugh, his chipped front tooth, his petulant silences.
There is so little love in the world.
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Louis Quotes in The Hours
The The Hours quotes below are all either spoken by Louis or refer to Louis. 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:
).
Chapter 4: Mrs. Dalloway
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Richard’s chair, particularly, is insane; or, rather, it is the chair of someone who, if not actually insane, has let things slide so far, has gone such a long way toward the exhausted relinquishment of ordinary caretaking—simple hygiene, regular nourishment—that the difference between insanity and hopelessness is difficult to pinpoint. The chair—an elderly, square, overstuffed armchair obesely balanced on slender blond wooden legs—is ostentatiously broken and worthless.[…] Richard will not hear of its being replaced.
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Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 11: Mrs. Dalloway
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The truth is that he does not love Hunter and Hunter does not love him. They are having an affair; only an affair. He fails to think of him for hours at a time. Hunter has other boyfriends, a whole future planned, and when he’s moved on, Louis has to admit, privately, that he won’t much miss Hunter’s shrill laugh, his chipped front tooth, his petulant silences.
There is so little love in the world.
