The Woman in Cabin 10

by

Ruth Ware

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Ben Howard Character Analysis

Ben is a fellow passenger on the Aurora, a travel journalist with a “hipster beard” who used to work at Velocity with Lo and now does investigative journalism at the Times. Unlike Lo, Ben is adept at networking. The two of them dated in their twenties, and Ben has lingering feelings for Lo. On the first night of the cruise, they’re both drunk, and Ben makes an unwanted sexual advance, to which Lo responds by kneeing him in the groin. He helps Lo with her investigation, though, and “raises hell” about her disappearance from the ship.

Ben Howard Quotes in The Woman in Cabin 10

The The Woman in Cabin 10 quotes below are all either spoken by Ben Howard or refer to Ben Howard. 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:
Entrapment and Isolation Theme Icon
).
Chapter 21 Quotes

I was so busy thinking about Ben that as I rounded the corner near the upper-deck toilet, I almost tripped over Anne Bullmer. She was leaning back against the wall as if steeling herself for something, although whether to return to the party, or make her way back to her cabin, I wasn’t sure. She looked extremely tired, her face gray, the shadows around her eyes darker than ever […]

“I’m fine, I’m just very tired. Sometimes…” She swallowed, and her voice cracked for a moment, something in the cut-glass English accent slipping. “Sometimes it all just seems too much—d’you know what I mean? Such a performance.”

Related Characters: Laura “Lo” Blacklock (speaker), The Woman in Cabin 10/Carrie (speaker), Anne Bullmer, Ben Howard
Page Number: 214
Explanation and Analysis:
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Ben Howard Quotes in The Woman in Cabin 10

The The Woman in Cabin 10 quotes below are all either spoken by Ben Howard or refer to Ben Howard. 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:
Entrapment and Isolation Theme Icon
).
Chapter 21 Quotes

I was so busy thinking about Ben that as I rounded the corner near the upper-deck toilet, I almost tripped over Anne Bullmer. She was leaning back against the wall as if steeling herself for something, although whether to return to the party, or make her way back to her cabin, I wasn’t sure. She looked extremely tired, her face gray, the shadows around her eyes darker than ever […]

“I’m fine, I’m just very tired. Sometimes…” She swallowed, and her voice cracked for a moment, something in the cut-glass English accent slipping. “Sometimes it all just seems too much—d’you know what I mean? Such a performance.”

Related Characters: Laura “Lo” Blacklock (speaker), The Woman in Cabin 10/Carrie (speaker), Anne Bullmer, Ben Howard
Page Number: 214
Explanation and Analysis: