The Laramie Project

The Laramie Project

by

Moisés Kaufman

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Doc O’Connor Character Analysis

Doc O’Connor is a limousine driver in Laramie who was a friend of Matthew Shepard’s. According to Doc, Matthew used to hire him for rides to gay bars in a town an hour away. Doc loves Laramie and believes that there are more gay people than there seem to be in the town. Doc hopes that Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson will not receive the death penalty, believing that it would defeat everything Matthew stood for and would leave the community without hope for healing.

Doc O’Connor Quotes in The Laramie Project

The The Laramie Project quotes below are all either spoken by Doc O’Connor or refer to Doc O’Connor. 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:
Homophobia, Tolerance, and Acceptance Theme Icon
).
Act 3: Epilogue Quotes

And I remembered to myself the night he and I drove around together, he said to me, “Laramie sparkles, doesn’t it?” And where he was up there, if you sit exactly where he was, up there, Laramie sparkles from there…Matt was right there in that spot, and I can just picture in his eyes, I can just picture what he was seeing. The last thing he saw on this earth was the sparkling lights.

Related Characters: Doc O’Connor (speaker), Matthew Shepard
Related Symbols: The Fence
Page Number: 87
Explanation and Analysis:
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Doc O’Connor Quotes in The Laramie Project

The The Laramie Project quotes below are all either spoken by Doc O’Connor or refer to Doc O’Connor. 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:
Homophobia, Tolerance, and Acceptance Theme Icon
).
Act 3: Epilogue Quotes

And I remembered to myself the night he and I drove around together, he said to me, “Laramie sparkles, doesn’t it?” And where he was up there, if you sit exactly where he was, up there, Laramie sparkles from there…Matt was right there in that spot, and I can just picture in his eyes, I can just picture what he was seeing. The last thing he saw on this earth was the sparkling lights.

Related Characters: Doc O’Connor (speaker), Matthew Shepard
Related Symbols: The Fence
Page Number: 87
Explanation and Analysis: