In addition to this, she comes to understand that her mother’s death must have been an accident. In her final moments, her life flashes before her eyes, and she makes peace with the people she’s wronged and the people who have wronged her. Vincent dies when she falls overboard the Neptune Cumberland while trying to record video footage of a storm. She refuses to answer to or belong to anyone, including her on-again, off-again boyfriend Geoffrey Bell, whom she meets while working on the Neptune Cumberland. Vincent spends the last decade of her life adrift, working at sea and travelling the world in her time off work. Vincent has regrets about forgoing her independence throughout her relationship with Jonathan, so, after Jonathan is imprisoned for his crimes, Vincent abandons her old life to work as a chef aboard a container ship called the Neptune Cumberland. Vincent lives with Alkaitis for three years, a period she refers to as her stay in the “kingdom of money,” from 2005-2008, until the collapse of Alkaitis’s Ponzi scheme. This involves Vincent becoming Alkaitis’s trophy “wife,” though the two are never legally married.
Vincent’s independence is challenged in 2005 when she meets Jonathan Alkaitis, the owner of the Hotel Caiette, the luxury resort she works at after the death of her father, and Alkaitis soon whisks her away from a precarious life of low-paying bartending jobs and into a world of excess wealth. Fiercely independent, Vincent supports herself from that time forward. Eventually, Vincent drops out of high school and gets an apartment with her friend Melissa when she’s just 17. At 13, she’s suspended from school for vandalizing her school’s glass window. Unresolved grief over her mother’s mysterious death leads Vincent down a searching, tumultuous path. Shortly after her mother’s death, Vincent’s Grandma Caroline presents her with a video camera, and Vincent takes to recording five-minute segments of film, which becomes a lifelong hobby. Vincent’s mother dies by drowning-either an accident or suicide-when Vincent is only 13 years old, and Vincent spends much of the novel wondering whether or not her mother willfully abandoned her. Vincent’s father left Paul’s mother for Vincent’s mother when Paul was young, and Paul resents Vincent because of it. Vincent has a half-brother, Paul, from her father’s first marriage. She grows up in Caiette, a town on a remote tip of Vancouver Island. Vincent is one of The Glass Hotel’s main characters.
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