Noah III often sees the school counselor, wets the bed, and is on Ritalin. He's a coke fiend who has little time for his son, and is oblivious to what goes on his son's life. His father, Noah Lathrop II, is an overbearing alpha male running dubious business deals around the world. Noah is a troubled student who was sent to Middle Forge after having developed a crush on a teacher in his previous school. Later it is revealed that Arthur was in an illicit relationship of his own with the school's previous headmaster, Jack Emmerich. His ex-boyfriend, Arthur Branson, who is dying of AIDS, was also formerly a student of Middle Forge, and at the time, had been one of Louis' favored students. Shortly after he starts teaching, he visits friends in New York City, where it is revealed that Tracy is gay. He and Claire visit a dog shelter where Tracy finds Betsy, a beagle which he occasionally leaves in the care of one of his students, Noah Lathrop III.
He lives alone in a big house on campus one that was previously owned by Jack Emmerich. Tracy quickly becomes a popular teacher on campus, letting the students call him by his first name. It is implied that Louis had an unrequited love for Reid – who instead became a womanizer and an adulterer, eventually leaving his wife by the end of the novel. Louis and Reid have been friends for years, and it was through Reid that Claire had met Louis. She also admits to a lesbian crush when she was younger, with her best friend Libby, who is married to Reid. Knowing full well of Louis' repressed desires, Claire accepts them knowing that even so, he has remained a faithful husband. Louis, as headmaster, has a history of having favorite boys within the school, but the relationships always closely resembled that of his new friendship with Tracy Parker – a relationship similar to the one he himself had with Jack Emmerich, the school's previous headmaster.Ĭlaire has also developed a friendship with Tracy.
He and his wife, Claire become close friends with Tracy, often inviting him over to dinner, with Louis educating and imparting his love of classic music on the young English teacher. He hires Tracy as an English teacher at the school, Middle Forge, and is instantly attracted. Headmaster Louis Tremper is a repressed homosexual with a love of German opera. The story is told from the alternating perspective of four characters: Louis Tremper, the headmaster of a boy's prep school in upstate New York his wife, Claire Tremper Tracy Parker, the school's new 25-year-old English teacher and Noah Lathrop III, a 15-year-old student struggling with his own sexuality.
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