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Marie Prevant is Leon Prevant’s wife. Leon takes Marie to the Hotel Caiette in 2005 as a surprise for their anniversary, though Leon’s financial worries make it impossible for him to enjoy the trip. Marie and Leon will eventually lose their home when they lose all their savings in the collapse of Jonathan Alkaitis’s Ponzi scheme in 2008. Unable to keep up with their mortgage payments, Marie and Leon move into an RV and travel around the country, taking odd jobs where they can find them. Marie appears to accept their new reality more than her husband does, and she doesn’t seem to suffer the existential crisis Leon undergoes when he loses his career and everything he built around it.
Marie Prevant Quotes in The Glass Hotel
The The Glass Hotel quotes below are all either spoken by Marie Prevant or refer to Marie Prevant. 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 13: Shadow Country Quotes
But they were citizens of a shadow country that in his previous life he’d only dimly perceived, a country located at the edge of an abyss. He’d been aware of the shadowland forever, of course. He’d seen its more obvious outposts: shelters fashioned from cardboard under overpasses, tents glimpsed in the bushes alongside expressways, houses with boarded-up doors but a light shining in an upstairs window. He’d always been vaguely aware of its citizens, people who’d slipped beneath the surface of society, into a territory without comfort or room for error; they hitchhiked on roads with their worldly belongings in backpacks, they collected cans on the streets of cities, they stood on the Strip in Las Vegas wearing T-shirts that said GIRLS TO YOUR ROOM IN 20 MINUTES, they were the girls in the room. He’d seen the shadow country, its outskirts and signs, he’d just never thought he’d have anything to do with it.
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Marie Prevant Character Timeline in The Glass Hotel
The timeline below shows where the character Marie Prevant appears in The Glass Hotel. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 3: The Hotel
...At 4:30 that morning (shortly before Alkaitis’s arrival), Prevant returns to bed, beside his wife, Marie, who is sleeping. He’s had too much whiskey in an effort to fall asleep, but...
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Leon had booked a stay at the Hotel Caiette as a surprise for Marie to celebrate their anniversary. The couple was immediately enchanted by the hotel and spent their...
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...this. Inwardly, he reflects on the first person who intuited his relationship to shipping, Clarissa, Marie’s psychic friend from Santa Fe who had visited the couple when Leon was still based...
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Chapter 11: Winter
...he tries to make a plan for his future. Near the hotel entrance, he calls Marie, who already knows.
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Chapter 13: Shadow Country
...year when Miranda calls him. Leon is sitting in the RV after work, alone, as Marie just got a night job at Walmart.
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The narrative flashes back to the immediate aftermath of Alkaitis’s arrest. Leon and Marie’s life changes drastically after the collapse of the Ponzi scheme and the loss of their...
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One night that summer, though, Marie mentions a conversation she had with her old friend Clarissa, who recently lost her house...
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It’s now been a year since Leon’s return from Germany. He and Marie are camped outside Santa Fe after spending a grueling holiday season working in a warehouse...
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