I think part of the reason that Louis struggles so much to mourn Claudia is that he still has difficulty seeing her as a full person outside of himself. He brings her into his and Lestats chamber of horrors/household to be his daughter/sister and replace the family/community he is alienated from. He has never been fully comfortable with the (many) ways in which she bulked against that role. If he was able to truly see her as the complex person she was he would not keep trying to replace her by recruiting other people (Daniel twice, Regina) to fill her role. To truly mourn her he will have to come to terms with the reality of her existence beyond and outside of him.




















