The relationships within Interview with a Vampire

   In the book “Interview with a Vampire” written by Anne Rice, many relationships are made with different aspects of the vampire lore to be explored. Our main character, Louis de Pointe, is a conflicted character who ponders his morals throughout the book. He meets another vampire later in the story named Lestat who he sees as incredibly cruel. Lestat believes in “vampire nature”, brutally killing civilians without any thoughts about it. Louis begins a strong hatred for him throughout the novel and until the end is when Lestat stops killing and begs for Louis to show him another way of living. This is a strong relationship that shows even through hundreds of years a character can still change. He’s a very dark character who tries to change grudges after being incredibly ignorant to change the entire book. Pondering if second chances are truly deserved

  Another big relationship in the novel is Claudia. Louis and Lestat kill her parents and convert her into a vampire at the age of five. She never grows out of her small body but matures greatly throughout the story. She learns the good from Louis and learns the bad from Lestat, becoming her parental figures and gaining a little bit of personality quirks from both of them. After being taken away by Louis to Paris, she meets a doll maker named Madeleine who she becomes close to. She has a longing to Louis to turn her into a vampire and replace him as a guardian. This is her form of growing up, abandoning her only parent Louis to live as independently as she can within her form and moving on.

  The final character is that creates an important relationship is the interviewer himself. Throughout the novel he listens to Louis’s story and doesn’t input much besides questions. But in the end he shocks Louis by asking him to turn him into a vampire. Louis is surprised because even after hearing all the nightmarish horrors he’s been through because of this form, the boy still wants it. It shows the concept of a vampire can be incredibly romantic to some. Living forever, making lasting connections and rarely having enemies. It’s a fantasy we’ve all had at one point. To see someone excited about someone’s misfortune brings him to an outsider’s look and shows how one’s pain could be another’s fortune. These relationships create a multitude of perspectives and without them, this book and vampire myth could never stand the test of time.