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No one ever says no to Trout Walker.
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~ Trout's childish response to Kathrine Barlow's romantic disinterest while in his prime.
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I ain't gonna kill you, but by the time I'm finished with you, you gonna wish you was dead!
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~ Trout's most famous quote while he's taunting Kissin' Kate Barlow at gunpoint.
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Young Warden: I'm tired of this, Grandpa! Trout: WELL, THAT'S TOO DAMN BAD!! You keep digging! Young Warden: Well, excuse me. Trout: You'll thank me one day.
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~ Trout, in his old age, forcing his granddaughter, Louise Walker to dig as a child.
Charles "Trout" Walker is one of the two overarching antagonists (alongside Kissin' Kate Barlow) of the 1998 novel Holes and its 2003 film adaptation. He was the owner of Camp Green Lake and obsessed with finding the treasure of Kissin' Kate Barlow, and the grandfather of Louise Walker.
In the film adaptation, he was portrayed by the late Scott Plank, whose memory the film was dedicated to.
Trout Walker, whose father owned the town's lake, tried to win the love of Katherine Barlow, the beautiful school matron, but she fell in love with Sam, an African-American onion salesman, with Charles discovering the relationship. Infuriated at being rejected by Katherine, and jealous over how Katherine had accepted Sam instead of him, Charles immediately used the prejudice of the townsfolk and laws forbidding the relationship between Sam and Katherine to have Sam killed, while burning down Kate's school. Trout led the charge behind an angry town mob and personally killed both Sam and his beloved donkey, Mary Lou. The unjust murder of her lover turned Katherine into Kissin' Kate Barlow, a notorious outlaw. After he murdered Sam and Mary Lou, the town's lake dried up and the Walker family lost all their money.
Years later, Trout and his wife Linda tracked down Kissin' Kate Barlow and demanded to know where she buried her treasure at gunpoint. Rather than tell Trout, Kate instead commits suicide by letting a yellow-spotted lizard bite her so that Trout and his family could waste their years searching.
Angered by this, Trout and his family (even his grandchildren) have spent their lives digging for the treasure, and he passed on his obsession with his granddaughter Warden Walker. After his death, she built Camp Green Lake for delinquent boys, to speed up the process. However, Stanley Yelnats IV found the treasure, causing Trout to die in vain, as the chest and the contents therein was the rightful property of his family due to it having the first Stanley Yelnats' name engraved on it. Kate Barlow got the last laugh, and the Walkers were finally brought to justice (as if by divine providence, it began to rain at Camp Green Lake almost immediately after the warden was arrested).
Appearance[]
As a young man, Trout was quite skinny and tall with dark hair, crooked teeth and mildly tanned skin. He was also very well dressed, wearing expensive suits and cravats most commonly. He also wore a cream colored trilby during the summer heat and a grey duster coat during colder conditions.
As he got older, Trout's appearance took a ghastly turn, his face become withered and dirty with his hair turning dirty blonde and thinning drastically, and his clothes looking ragged and unwashed.
As an old man, Trout was unhealthily pale and his figure was even more gaunt than it was before, with very few teeth left and had lost nearly all of his hair aside from a few strands. He also wore glasses, presumably due to his eyesight getting worse and kept the same trilby, albeit now it was worse for wear and falling apart.
Personality[]
Trout was a very childish, self-centered and arrogant man with no care about anyone but himself. While not outwardly evil at first, he proves himself to be exceedingly dangerous, ruthless and spiteful after being rejected by Kate, going as far as to murder her lover and burn down her schoolhouse for petty vengeance.
In his later life, Trout lost his mind nearly completely thanks to losing most of his wealth after Green Lake dried up, turning him into a desperate, hostile and sadistic lunatic who had his eyes only on treasure he wasn't sure even existed (or was even rightfully his), going as far as to drag his own family into his own obsession.
Trivia[]
In the book, his nickname, "Trout", was given because he had a then-incurable foot fungus that made his feet smell like dead fish. Although in the film, the source of his nickname is never mentioned, nor is his real name used.
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