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Annika is the beautiful and talented violinist of the Canadian electronica band Baltica. Paul encounters Baltica while out at a club in Toronto in late 1999. He asks Annika out on a date, but she rejects him. Lonely and desperate to make friends, Paul offers Annika and Charlie Wu, the band’s keyboardist, ecstasy pills that made him sick the night before (Paul will later insist that he didn’t know the pills were bad—that he assumed he’d simply had a bad reaction to them), and the pills cause Charlie’s death. Later in the novel, the reader learns that Annika previously had worked with music producer and Alkaitis investor Lenny Xavier, though she ultimately abandoned Xavier and his production team to make music that was more closely aligned with her artistic values.
Annika Quotes in The Glass Hotel
The The Glass Hotel quotes below are all either spoken by Annika or refer to Annika. 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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Chapter 4: A Fairy Tale Quotes
“She had real potential. Real potential. But an inability to recognize opportunity? That right there is a fatal flaw.”
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Annika Character Timeline in The Glass Hotel
The timeline below shows where the character Annika appears in The Glass Hotel. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 2: I Always Come to You
...violinist. The bassist introduces himself as Theo before introducing Paul to Charlie, the keyboardist, and Annika, the violinist. Paul explains that he’s new to Toronto and asks the group for places...
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Paul finds Baltica at the club. Annika looks beautiful, and in her Paul sees a new, alternate reality—one that transcends his current,...
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Back in the present, Paul approaches the band. Annika greets him, though rather impersonally. Paul asks out Annika, who immediately turns him down. He...
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...his negative reaction to them was just a fluke. He argues that he really believed Annika had tried the same pills as him, and that they were fine. The narrative switches...
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Chapter 4: A Fairy Tale
...where the girl is now, and Lenny scoffs, saying he doesn’t “give[] a fuck” where Annika is now.
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Lenny continues to talk about Annika, berating her. He explains that Annika was beautiful, enigmatic, and talented. They were on track...
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