# Epigraph explained — The Professor’s House

> Chapter companion for The Professor’s House by Willa Cather.

## What happens

The chapter opens with a brief epigraph: a quoted line from Louie Marsellus, musing about a turquoise set in dull silver. This fragment serves as a thematic introduction to the novel.

## Character check-ins

### Louie Marsellus

Speaker of the epigraph, musing about a turquoise set in dull silver.

## Key lines

> A turquoise set in silver; wasn't it? … Yes, a turquoise set in dull silver.

Louie Marsellus recalls a piece of jewelry, a turquoise stone mounted in silver, confirming its description.

_The epigraph introduces a motif of precious objects and memory._

## Links

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