Vampire Relationships - Interview with a Vampire

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In Interview With a Vampire, dependency is a big factor with the characters and their relationships. The start of the story, Louis basically craves death ever since his brother dies. It’s almost ironic that he becomes immortal because of this. After Lestat turns him, they’re basically depending on each other since they seem to be the only vampires in New Orlands up until they turn Claudia who grows up without having to be on her own. Even before she gets bitten by Louis, Claudia is seen clutched to her mother’s corpse. Because of Louis still lingering human emotions, he and Claudia killed Lestat out of vengeance. I believe this makes Louis the strongest vampire in this story because he’s still able to suppress his vampire tendencies for hundreds of years.
While I was reading, I understood why vampires are so dependent on other vampires. Either they become partners with humans and then the humans eventually die, or they just have vampire partners who are with them forever. As Claudia and Louis go and search to learn more about vampires, they come across a whole group of them in Paris. The only thing different about them is that Louis still has remorse for human mortals which then gets Claudia and her “mother” killed in the long run.
Louis does not enjoy killing human beings, but only in some circumstances. Before Claudia kills Lestat, he would give her a doll every year. She would then get frustrated by this and tell him that “she’s not a doll”. I think this is just more frustration from Claudia since she cannot grow up and neither can dolls. However, it is until a doll maker comes around and is the mother figure she needed.

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