Anxious People

Anxious People

by

Fredrik Backman

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The Real Estate Agent/The Realtor Character Analysis

The real estate agent is selling both Estelle’s apartment and the apartment across the landing. She works for the House Tricks Real Estate Agency, whose tagline is “HOW’S TRICKS?” The narrator makes it clear that the real estate agent is very bad at her job: in addition to being insufferably annoying and parroting her agency’s tagline at every opportunity, she does a poor job staging the apartment and chooses an objectively bad day to hold the viewing. Roger also resents her for having incorrect information on the apartment’s floor plans. For much of the novel, the agent is absent—she was collecting herself in the closet when the robber took the prospective buyers hostage, and she climbed into the attic vent to hide and remains there for much of the hostage drama. This leads Jack to briefly believe that there was never a real estate agent at the viewing and that the robber escaped the apartment by posing as the agent, as the agent was still hiding when the hostages sent their pizza order down to the police.

The Real Estate Agent/The Realtor Quotes in Anxious People

The Anxious People quotes below are all either spoken by The Real Estate Agent/The Realtor or refer to The Real Estate Agent/The Realtor. 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:
Parenting and Fear Theme Icon
).
Chapter 66 Quotes

“This isn’t just an apartment, it’s my home, I don’t want to hand it over to someone who’s just going to be passing through, to make money from it. I want someone who’s going to love living here, like I have. Maybe that’s hard for a young person to understand.”

That wasn’t true. There wasn’t a single person in the apartment who didn’t understand perfectly.

Related Characters: Estelle (speaker), Zara/The Woman, Anna-Lena, Roger, Julia, Ro, Lennart/The Rabbit, The Real Estate Agent/The Realtor
Page Number: 305
Explanation and Analysis:
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The Real Estate Agent/The Realtor Quotes in Anxious People

The Anxious People quotes below are all either spoken by The Real Estate Agent/The Realtor or refer to The Real Estate Agent/The Realtor. 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:
Parenting and Fear Theme Icon
).
Chapter 66 Quotes

“This isn’t just an apartment, it’s my home, I don’t want to hand it over to someone who’s just going to be passing through, to make money from it. I want someone who’s going to love living here, like I have. Maybe that’s hard for a young person to understand.”

That wasn’t true. There wasn’t a single person in the apartment who didn’t understand perfectly.

Related Characters: Estelle (speaker), Zara/The Woman, Anna-Lena, Roger, Julia, Ro, Lennart/The Rabbit, The Real Estate Agent/The Realtor
Page Number: 305
Explanation and Analysis: