The man in the hotel is “an old acquaintance” of the girl with the dark glasses who enlists her services as a prostitute on the night that the girl goes blind. The man later goes blind and comes to the quarantined mental hospital, where he briefly lives in the doctor’s wife’s ward. Soon after he moves in, he gets killed by the soldiers, along with the taxi-driver and the two policemen (the one who took the car-thief home and the one who took the girl with the dark glasses home).
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The man from the hotel Character Timeline in Blindness
The timeline below shows where the character The man from the hotel appears in Blindness. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 2
...old acquaintance” is waiting to visit her. On the way, she fantasizes about sleeping with the man in the hotel . When she arrives, she has a soft drink at the hotel bar and then...
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Chapter 5
Soon, three more people arrive: one of the doctor’s employees, the man from the hotel with whom the girl with the dark glasses had sex, and the rude policeman who...
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Chapter 6
...or bury the nine dead, whose identities they do not know. (In fact, they are the man who from the hotel , the taxi-driver, the policeman who took the car-thief home, the policeman who took the...
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