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* ''Literature/ToShapeADragonsBreath:'' Frau Jansen -- Sander's mother -- acts as if the Jansen family is still well off. However thanks to the death of her husband, the high cost of Sander's governess (who overcharged the family because he was autistic) and the purchase of Inga's egg for Sander, the Jansen family is financially crippled. Frau Jansen won't admit it.
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* ''Literature/ToShapeADragonsBreath:'' Frau Jansen -- Sander's mother -- acts as if the family is still well off. However thanks to the death of her husband, the high cost of Sander's governess (who overcharged the family because he was autistic) and the purchase of Inga's egg for Sander, the Jansen family is financially crippled. Frau Jansen won't admit it.
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* ''Literature/ToShapeADragonsBreath:'' Frau Jansen -- Sander's mother -- acts as if the family is still well off. However thanks to the death of her husband, the high cost of Sander's governess (who overcharged the family because he was autistic) and the purchase of Inga's egg for Sander, the Jansen family is financially crippled. Frau Jansen won't admit it.
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* ''Literature/TheGoodEarth'': Wang Lung's increasing good fortune as a farmer is tied into the fall of The House of Hwang, whose royal offspring's frivolous spending forces them to sell off their properties to Wang Lung. [[spoiler:The ending implies that Wang Lung's spoiled children will soon end up the same way.]]
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* ''Literature/TheGoldenHamsterSaga'': ''The Haunting of Freddy'' has the Templetons, descendants of a sixth-century baron, whose castle has fallen into disrepair due to the lack of money.
* ''Literature/TheGoodEarth'': Wang Lung's increasing good fortune as a farmer is tied into the fall of The House of Hwang, whose royal offspring's frivolous spending forces them to sell off their properties to Wang Lung. [[spoiler:The ending implies that Wang Lung's spoiled children will soon end up the same way.]]
* ''Literature/TheGoodEarth'': Wang Lung's increasing good fortune as a farmer is tied into the fall of The House of Hwang, whose royal offspring's frivolous spending forces them to sell off their properties to Wang Lung. [[spoiler:The ending implies that Wang Lung's spoiled children will soon end up the same way.]]
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* ''Literature/LazarilloDeTormes'': Lázaro's third master is a dirt-poor nobleman who will rather beg on the street than do manual work for a living, as the latter is considered [[DeliberateValuesDissonance improper of his lineage]].
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* ''Literature/LazarilloDeTormes'': Lázaro's third master is a dirt-poor nobleman who owns nothing but the set of clothes he uses to keep up appearances, but will rather beg on the street streets than do manual work for a living, as living because the latter is considered [[DeliberateValuesDissonance considered improper of his lineage]].lineage.]] This service ends when the nobleman flees without notice in order to not pay rent for the room they sleep in.
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* ''Literature/LazarilloDeTormes'': Lázaro's third master is a dirt poor dirt-poor nobleman who will rather beg on the street than do manual work in anything other than for a living, as it is considered [[DeliberateValuesDissonance beneath his appearance.station]].
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* ''Lazarillo de Tormes'': The anonymous third employer of this satirical novella. The interesting twist is that the character refuses to admit just how screwed he is, out of family pride.
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* ''Lazarillo de Tormes'': The anonymous ''Literature/LazarilloDeTormes'': Lázaro's third employer of this satirical novella. The interesting twist master is that the character refuses to admit just how screwed he is, out of family pride.a dirt poor nobleman who will rather beg than work in anything other than his appearance.
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* ''Literature/AtarGull'': Brulart was once Comte Arthur de Valbelle, an UpperClassTwit who fell in love with a girl and proposed a SeenItAllSuicide SuicidePact once his (father's) money ran out. She instead ran off with a young banker believing Brulart dead, and after he murdered her and her lover fell into opium and piracy.
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* ''Literature/AtarGull'': Brulart was once Comte Arthur de Valbelle, an UpperClassTwit who fell in love with a girl and proposed a SeenItAllSuicide {{Seen It All|Suicide}} SuicidePact once his (father's) money ran out. She instead ran off with a young banker believing Brulart dead, and after he murdered her and her lover fell into opium and piracy.
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* ''Literature/DonQuixote'': Alonso Quijano is an [[BlueBlood Hidalgo]] that still has the ancient arms of his ancestors, but has so little money that almost most of them is spent on food. What can he do? He is very smart and talented, but to work is beneath an Hidalgo. He is poor and bored. It does not help that he spent a lot of time in those silly chivalry books. Sure, they help him with the boredom, and the knight life is certainly exciting, but they are only absurd tales, right? Lampshaded in Part II, chapter 44:
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* ''Literature/DonQuixote'': Alonso Quijano is an [[BlueBlood Hidalgo]] that still has the ancient arms of his ancestors, but has so little money that almost most of them is spent on food. What can he do? He is very smart and talented, but to work is beneath an Hidalgo. He is poor and bored. It does not help that he spent a lot of time them in those silly chivalry books. Sure, they help him with the boredom, and the knight life is certainly exciting, but they are only absurd tales, right? Lampshaded in Part II, chapter 44:
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* ''Literature/DonQuixote'': Alonso Quijano is an [[BlueBlood Hidalgo]] that still has the ancient arms of his ancestors, but has so little money that almost most of them is spent on food. What can he do? He is very smart and talented, but to work is beneath an Hidalgo. He is poor and bored. It does not help that he spent a lot of them in those silly chivalry books. Sure, they help him with the boredom, and the knight life is certainly exciting, but they are only absurd tales, right? Lampshaded in Part II, chapter 44:
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* ''Literature/DonQuixote'': Alonso Quijano is an [[BlueBlood Hidalgo]] that still has the ancient arms of his ancestors, but has so little money that almost most of them is spent on food. What can he do? He is very smart and talented, but to work is beneath an Hidalgo. He is poor and bored. It does not help that he spent a lot of them time in those silly chivalry books. Sure, they help him with the boredom, and the knight life is certainly exciting, but they are only absurd tales, right? Lampshaded in Part II, chapter 44:
