![]() ![]() Furthermore, Lou notes, the difference between Will's former life and his life now is not his social class but his personality and attitude. However, Lou is able to voice this observation to Will without fear that she will offend him or face professional consequences. Will's wealthy family pays Lou, who has only been invited to the wedding they are at because she is a care worker for a rich guest. Their relationship is still marked by class difference, of course. These differences are clear from their first meeting, but this moment stands out because it marks how comfortable Lou and Will have become discussing their own pasts with one another. In this moment of dialogue, Lou explicitly talks to Will about the class differences that once divided them. One of the invisibles." Lou speaking to Will, Chapter 18 ![]() I would have been serving the drinks over there. "You would have been far too busy looking at the tall blonde girls with the endless legs and the big hair, the ones who can smell an expense account at forty paces. Traynor is trying to stave off her son's suicidal tendencies by finding him a companion. ![]() This foreshadows the unprecedented relationship that blooms between them, but also lays the groundwork for our later discovery that Mrs. The quote also signals to us that Lou's job is going to be about building a relationship with Will rather than just offering him daily assistance. She speaks in vague, euphemistic language, unwilling to betray her own strong emotions. Traynor's tendency to act secretive and restrained. The understatement she uses to explain that her very depressed son is "not the easiest person" creates suspense, causing us to wonder just how difficult Lou's new employer is going to be. Traynor offers us a preview of Will's situation before we meet him and conveys a great deal, rather subtly, about Mrs. This job is going to be about mental attitude as much as any. Will is not the easiest person to be around at the moment, Miss Clark. This quote also gives one of the first hints that Lou and Patrick's relationship is far from perfect, and that it might in fact be headed the same way as Will and Alicia's. Since the photograph tells an incomplete story about Will's former life, making things look less complicated than they are, we can also assume that Will's life before the accident might not be as perfect as he often remembers it being. This realization is particularly important because Alicia herself is adept at projecting an air of perfection, making it difficult to understand her life based on images. Lou momentarily assumes that Will's relationship with Alicia was a happy one because the photograph she finds of them seems to show them in a moment of happiness, but then considers that photographs don't always tell the whole truth. The photographs on display in Will's room portray him in happier days, going on adventures with friends and girlfriends. "They looked like they were really happy together." Then again, what did a photograph prove? I had a framed photograph at home where I was beaming at Patrick like he had just pulled me from a burning building, yet in reality I had just called him an "utter dick" and he had responded with a hearty, "Oh, piss off!" Lou's Narration, Chapter 4 "I don't know." I thought of the photograph. ![]()
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