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Lucas Alkaitis
Claire is the daughter of Jonathan Alkaitis and his wife Suzanne. She’s not fully comfortable with her father’s relationship with Vincent, who is five years younger than her, but makes an effort to be cordial toward Vincent. Claire works for her father’s company, though she works on Floor 18, in the brokerage arm of the firm, which conducts the company’s legitimate business and whose workers are not complicit in the illegal activities on Floor 17. It’s Claire who calls the FBI on her father when she learns of his company’s fraudulent activity, and she refuses to visit him in prison after his conviction. When Alkaitis attempts to contact Claire from prison, she responds only with a transcript from his trial in which he confesses to the charges brought against him.
Claire Quotes in The Glass Hotel
The The Glass Hotel quotes below are all either spoken by Claire or refer to Claire. 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 6: The Counterlife Quotes
In the counterlife, Claire visits him in Dubai. She is happy to see him. She disapproves of his actions, but they can laugh about it. Their conversations are effortless. In the counterlife, Claire isn’t the one who called the FBI.
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Chapter 11: Winter Quotes
“You know what’s permanent? You’re a person with a really excellent cocktail story. Ten, twenty years from now, at a cocktail party, you’ll be holding a martini in a circle of people, and you’ll be like, ‘Did I ever tell you about the time I worked for Jonathan Alkaitis?’ […] You get to walk away untarnished.”
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Claire Character Timeline in The Glass Hotel
The timeline below shows where the character Claire appears in The Glass Hotel. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 4: A Fairy Tale
Vincent was swimming when she first met Jonathan’s daughter, Claire. It was a cool April evening. Claire’s sudden presence at the poolside caught Vincent off-guard,...
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...ready to be married again. Only Vincent and Jonathan know they’re not actually married—not even Claire knows the truth.
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Chapter 6: The Counterlife
...United Arab Emirates, a place he so enjoyed. Maybe he pretends not to know what Claire is talking about when she confronts him the day after the office holiday party. Maybe,...
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...admits that he doesn’t know what became of her. Freeman tries to ask Alkaitis about Claire, but Alkaitis refuses. Inwardly, he reveals that it was Claire who called the FBI, and...
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Chapter 9: A Fairy Tale
...several months. Vincent enters the office to find Jonathan sitting at his desk, looking waxen. Claire is there, too, and a man in his 50s or 60s sits on the sofa....
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Chapter 10: The Office Chorus
...Alkaitis return to the 18th floor conference room, the Xavier boxes are there. Shortly after, Claire appears in the doorway looking for her father. She is alarmed to see Simone shredding...
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Claire approaches her father in his office. Harvey is on the sofa, looking strange and almost...
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...Vincent. Jonathan is at his home office trying and failing to write a letter to Claire.
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Chapter 11: Winter
...office. On his way out, he runs into Simone, who is carrying some things from Claire's office, one of which is a photo of Claire and her kids. Oskar postulates that...
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Claire, who seems almost sedated, quietly thanks Simone for retrieving her things before ordering the driver...
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...on with his story, attempting to humanize Jonathan. He speaks of a modest family, Jonathan, Claire, and Suzanne, living in a small, suburban house, taking modest vacations close to home, and...
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Chapter 14: The Office Chorus
...“honed the story” and “made it sharper and more entertaining,” though she can’t think of Claire’s broken, sedated figure in the backseat of the SUV that day, or she feels too...
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