Overview
Frederick "Freddy" Lounds (or Fredrica "Freddie" Lounds in the Hannibal TV series) is a fictional character in the Hannibal Lecter series, created by author Thomas Harris. Lounds first appears in the 1981 novel Red Dragon as a foil to protagonist Will Graham. Lounds is ultimately murdered by the novel's primary antagonist, serial killer Francis Dolarhyde.
Analysis
Literary version
Harris describes Lounds as "lumpy and ugly and small", with "buck teeth", and whose "rat eyes had the sheen of spit on asphalt". In terms of personality, Harris further describes Lounds as having "the longing need to be noticed that is often miscalled ego", sharpened by frustrated ambition:
Resentful of this treatment, Lounds goes into tabloid journalism, receiving much higher pay for writing popular but factually questionable news stories. Lounds has been characterized by reviewers as a film noir throwback:
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