Isabelle Therault Character Analysis in The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

Isabelle Therault is Addie’s best friend in Villon-sur-Sarthe. Unlike Addie, Isabelle has no desire to venture beyond Villon, and so she doesn’t understand Addie’s adventurous spirit. After Addie starts praying to the old gods to discourage men’s advances, George Caron, a man who was originally interested in Addie, shifts his sights to Isabelle instead. They soon marry and have children. Isabelle was never as adventurous or curious as Addie, but her new domestic responsibilities leave her too tired even to daydream. After Addie makes a deal with Luc and finds that her own parents don’t recognize her, she returns to Isabelle’s barn, not knowing where else to go, and is saddened when her best friend no longer recognizes her. Many years later, Addie returns to Villon and visits the cemetery where her family and friends, including Isabelle, are buried.

Isabelle Therault Quotes in The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

The The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue quotes below are all either spoken by Isabelle Therault or refer to Isabelle Therault. 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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Her mother wishes she was more like Isabelle Therault, sweet and kind and utterly incurious, content to keep her eyes down upon her knitting instead of looking up at clouds, instead of wondering what’s around the bend, over the hills.

But Adeline does not know how to be like Isabelle.

She does not want to be like Isabelle.

She wants only to go to Le Mans, and once there, to watch the people and see the art all around, and taste the food, and discover things she hasn’t heard of yet.

Related Characters: Adeline “Addie” LaRue, Jean LaRue (Addie’s Father), Marthe LaRue (Addie’s Mother), Isabelle Therault

Page Number and Citation: 28

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Isabelle Therault Quotes in The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

The The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue quotes below are all either spoken by Isabelle Therault or refer to Isabelle Therault. 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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Her mother wishes she was more like Isabelle Therault, sweet and kind and utterly incurious, content to keep her eyes down upon her knitting instead of looking up at clouds, instead of wondering what’s around the bend, over the hills.

But Adeline does not know how to be like Isabelle.

She does not want to be like Isabelle.

She wants only to go to Le Mans, and once there, to watch the people and see the art all around, and taste the food, and discover things she hasn’t heard of yet.

Related Characters: Adeline “Addie” LaRue, Jean LaRue (Addie’s Father), Marthe LaRue (Addie’s Mother), Isabelle Therault

Page Number and Citation: 28

Explanation and Analysis:

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Isabelle Therault Character Analysis

Isabelle Therault Quotes in The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

Isabelle Therault Quotes in The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

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