Who died in the hotel fire?

[Seymour Glass]

That's what I figured you meant. I was just making sure.

[Seymour Glass]

I think I will have Esme and Carmelita survive, but they leave the country afterwards.

Should I have Jerome survive?

[Dante]

I think it would be easier for Jerome to survive than a lot of other characters. While he may have been last seen being pushed around by the sinister duo, he was in the lobby at the time. Once he smelt smoke, it would've been easy to escape.

[Very Funky Disco]

Jun 10, 2010 17:47:17 GMT -5 Seymour Glass said:

I think I will have Esme and Carmelita survive, but they leave the country afterwards.

Should I have Jerome survive?

Would Esme and Carmelita still be evil, after the fire? I definitely do think Jerome should survive.

[Seymour Glass]

They won't necessarily be evil. They'll still be snobs, though.

[Isadora]

You know what? I personally like to believe that none of the good guys died in the fire...I know it's a bit silly, but it makes me feel like VFD is still...alive, I guess (:

[snicket993]

May 27, 2010 13:46:53 GMT -5 Seymour Glass said:

Justice Strauss obviously died in the fire. She was at the top of the building. It also stated that the Baudelaires never saw her again.

It is unknown if Esme and Carmelita survived the fire. If they did, then they never met the Baudelaires again.

Nero probably died in the fire. It did say in TAA that Prufrock Prep closed down. Maybe it was because of Nero's death.

Frank and Ernest might have died. But if they didn't, they never saw the Baudelaires again.

I also think Mr. Remora and Mrs. Bass died in the fire.

[Dante]

Any particular reason why, or do they just seem not competent enough to make their way out? Perhaps Mrs. Bass didn't want to risk an encounter with the authorities?

[Sora]

I think the core issue is where each of the key characters were at the time of the fire. Realistically, everyone but Justice Strauss (although if you read my ages old fan-fic, JS does a little building surfing until it was safe for her to jump into the pond and dive to the library) should have had enough time to get out - the fire was not made to be massive from the start.

[beack]

Mr. Poe: Dead. Lemony Snicket states he dosn't know what happened to him. But Mr. Poe would have returned to his normal life (based on his personallity, the fact he has a wife and kids and a job). All other characters would have had a reason to leave their previous lives except him.

[colette]

I disagree. Snicket states, " Mr. Poe didn't die from the harpoon gun, at least not on that night. So, I think Mr. Poe was harpooned later. He didn't die in a fire.

[Dante]

I think that was more acknowledging the possibility that Mr. Poe might die from a harpoon, or might not; since Snicket doesn't know what happened to him, it's entirely possible. In addition, possibly part of the reason why Snicket wouldn't know what happened to some of these prominent individuals is that he never looked into their lives at all, so once they stopped being involved with the Baudelaires' story, he never had any reason to hear of them at all again. My personal take is that the best reading is that any character could or could not have died in the fire, depending on simple personal preference; that the possibility exists for any of the characters to have died or survived.

[colette]

No, some surviving theories sound more realistic and some of them sound less realistic. I want all Justice's Strauss's fans to forgive me but I am almost sure she is dead. But Frank could survive because he probably believed them and he was in hall when the fire was in progress, so it is very possible that he survived because he had enough time to escape. For the same reasons, I think sinister due and Jerome could survive. I don't think Geraldine survived because I don't think she believed Baudelaires. Mrs Bass definitely survived. I am not sure about freaks. What do you think about freaks?

[beack]

Mar 29, 2011 6:58:11 GMT -5 Dante said:

I think that was more acknowledging the possibility that Mr. Poe might die from a harpoon, or might not; since Snicket doesn't know what happened to him, it's entirely possible.

Or that Daniel Handler didn't honestly care how Poe died.

[Dante]

That as well. Basically, I don't think that it's an issue we need to concern ourselves with.