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Hooper is a young platoon commander in Charles’s Company during World War II. Hooper is not an enthusiastic soldier and is not popular with the authorities in the army. He is not very good at his job ,and Charles views him as an embodiment of the modern world, which he sees as inefficient, pedantic, and unglamorous. Charles also looks down on Hooper because he is working-class and because he will not make use of his servants.
Hooper – Quotes in Brideshead Revisited
The Brideshead Revisited quotes below are all either spoken by Hooper – or refer to Hooper –. 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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Prologue Quotes
Gallipoli, Balaclava, Quebec, Lepanto, Bannockburn, Roncevales and Marathon—these, and the Battle in the West where Arthur fell, and a hundred such names whose trumpet-notes, even now in my sere and lawless state, called to me irresistibly across the intervening years with all the clarity and strength of boyhood, sounded in vain to Hooper.
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Epilogue Quotes
No, I said, not what it was built for. Perhaps that’s one of the pleasures of building, like having a son, wondering how he’ll grow up. I don’t know; I never built anything, and I forfeited the right to watch my son grow up. I’m homeless, childless, middle-aged, love-less. Hooper.
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Hooper – Character Timeline in Brideshead Revisited
The timeline below shows where the character Hooper – appears in Brideshead Revisited. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Prologue
...result of “a century of progress,” but one of his subordinates, a young man named Hooper, is jealous of the inhabitants of the asylum and comments that Hitler would have killed...
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...night and has not been recorded in the “damages book,” and goes in search of Hooper, who is meant to inspect the camp. Hooper is unpopular with the other men and...
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Hooper is not enthusiastic about the army and has never dreamed about being a soldier or...
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Hooper trudges out to meet Charles and explains that he is late because he had to...
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The Company depart, and Hooper asks Charles where they are going. Charles doesn’t know, and Hooper hopes that they will...
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Hooper trudges up to Charles and tells him that the house is hidden behind a nearby...
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Epilogue
Charles finds Hooper downstairs and asks for his orders. Hooper says he doesn’t know them, and Charles says...
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Hooper thinks it is strange that one family lived in such a large house. Charles says...
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