Ken Worley is Luke's father. Ken's cynical attitude puts him at odds with Luke, who wants to believe that moving to the country was the right decision. During Ken's visit to his son's new home in the small, rural town of Garra Nalla, Ken is skeptical of country life. Luke doesn't argue with Ken about this, but their conversation reinforces the novel's tension between nature and civilization. Ken also sheepishly brings up "that business" with Luke's wife Anna, which serves as the first major hint that she might have had a miscarriage. Ken doesn't appear much in the novel, but his presence always tightens the dramatic tension and introduces doubt into the situation.
Ken Quotes in Vertigo
The Vertigo quotes below are all either spoken by Ken or refer to Ken. 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 2
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My God, he can’t even name it, thinks Luke in a spasm of bitter scorn. Typical. His father never could deal with the messy human dimension of feeling. But then as he watches the spray foam up from the blowhole, for the first time it occurs to him that the ‘other business’ might have been painful for Ken, a man with no grandchildren.
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Ken Quotes in Vertigo
The Vertigo quotes below are all either spoken by Ken or refer to Ken. 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:
).
Chapter 2
Quotes
My God, he can’t even name it, thinks Luke in a spasm of bitter scorn. Typical. His father never could deal with the messy human dimension of feeling. But then as he watches the spray foam up from the blowhole, for the first time it occurs to him that the ‘other business’ might have been painful for Ken, a man with no grandchildren.
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