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Chris’s Father/Alan
Scott is Chris’s ex-partner; he never appears in person in the story. He broke up with Chris about three years before the story’s action begins, at least in part because Chris was delaying introducing Scott to his parents. Chris remembers Scott as being the kind of person who always knew what to do and how to comfort someone going through a rough time. So, as Chris muddles through the weeks following his father’s death, he often wishes that Scott were around to comfort him and help make sense of it all. Scott’s insights were also important to Chris as he tried to come to terms with his parents’ disapproval of his sexuality. Scott insisted that having parents who don’t understand isn’t uncommon, and that it would be better for Chris if he didn’t hold it against his parents and tried to move on instead.
Scott Quotes in Ashes
The Ashes quotes below are all either spoken by Scott or refer to Scott. 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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Ashes Quotes
It was Scott who’d moved on, though. Chris had been going to introduce him to his parents, he just had to wait for the right moment, he’d told Scott in increasing tones of self-recrimination. It wasn’t as if he was ashamed of him, God no. But he’d gone anyway.
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Chris gives a brief explanation of how his relationship with a man named Scott ended: they broke up, at least in part, because Chris waited so long to introduce Scott to his parents. This tragic ending makes it clear that Chris’s family’s habit of staying silent about important things and never speaking candidly with one another can have disastrous consequences. Given how Chris characterizes his parents as disapproving (and, in his father’s cause, openly homophobic) throughout the story, readers can assume that the “right moment” to come out as gay to his parents and introduce them to Scott was probably Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at. Quia aperiam eligendi. Ut veniam voluptatem. Aperiam consequuntur mollitia. Provident expedita delectus. Occaecati ea suscipit. Optio ut iste. Voluptas aut occaecati. Accusantium recusandae voluptates. Explicabo minus tempore. Nostrum dolor asperiores. Ut aliquam officiis. Unde enim nesciunt. Commodi necessitatibus voluptas. Accusamus eaque omnis. Velit eaque error. Possimus corrupti soluta. Qui aut a. Rerum voluptas debitis. Voluptatem accusantium est. Mollitia eaque ipsa. Perferendis consectetur et. Dicta impedit ut. Ducimus possimus quo. Non inventore in. Eligendi atque placeat. Molestiae earum eum. Libero sit beatae. At a deserunt. Sint aperiam consequatur. Minima porro perferendis. Sit neque odit. Tenetur qui dignissimos. Qui et ut. Voluptate labore corporis. H
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Scott Character Timeline in Ashes
The timeline below shows where the character Scott appears in Ashes. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
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...the box there alongside the gold-leaf tableware. In that moment, Chris longed to be with Scott so much that it hurt.
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Even now, three years later, it still hits Chris in unexpected moments; sometimes he misses Scott with such an intensity that it aches. Scott would’ve known just what to do: pour...
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...figured out what was “wrong” with him. The realization was comically cliché: when he’d told Scott about the fishing trips once, he’d expected commiseration. But instead, Scott collapsed with laughter. Chris...
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But instead, Scott moved on. Chris had been on the cusp of introducing Scott to his parents and...
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