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** Johnny. His SanitySlippage and increasing obsession with the book/House cause him to lose his job and home and descend into drug addiction. There seems a spot of hope at the end of the book when he tells he's recovered, [[spoiler:but then turns out he made that up]]. By the end he's a BrokenBird. And all of this story happens after he had a broken childhood, with his father having died, his mother being put in an asylum, and abusive stepparents.
** Seraphina. She loses her husband and can't handle that emotionally, so she's put in an asylum, away from her son. The institution is a hellhole where she's repeatedly raped and abused (though this might also be her imagination... remember that to her it still is real). She tries to let her son know of the abuse in her letters, but
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Zero Context Examples. How can which characters be interpreted differently? How does the book make you paranoid? Also, Broken Base is when there are at least two large faction within fanbase, so doesn't apply to "some".
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* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Not a single character in the book that isn't subject to this, which [[InvertedTrope seemed to be the point of the entire book anyway]], considering Danieleski's fortay.
* BaseBreaker: [[spoiler: Johnny's fate]] is this for some, especially since [[spoiler: the book technically provides a BittersweetEnding for the Navidsons and even Zampano, but yet Johnny doesn't get anything and when he does, he tells the reader it was a ruse]].
* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: Johnny's digressions about his and Lude's sexual exploits can seem kind of pointless. Alternately, some readers will find ''everything'' about Johnny kind of pointless. Johnny's incoherent writing is partly justified though because he uses drugs frequently, and, as he himself writes, often writes when on drugs and / or drunk.
* EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory: The book can be seen as a straight use and alternatively as a parody.
* GeniusBonus: A brief section of musical notation is printed late in the book. It is the first line of the refrain of "When Johnny Comes Marching Home", otherwise known as "The Ants Go Marching One by One".
* BaseBreaker: [[spoiler: Johnny's fate]] is this for some, especially since [[spoiler: the book technically provides a BittersweetEnding for the Navidsons and even Zampano, but yet Johnny doesn't get anything and when he does, he tells the reader it was a ruse]].
* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: Johnny's digressions about his and Lude's sexual exploits can seem kind of pointless. Alternately, some readers will find ''everything'' about Johnny kind of pointless. Johnny's incoherent writing is partly justified though because he uses drugs frequently, and, as he himself writes, often writes when on drugs and / or drunk.
* EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory: The book can be seen as a straight use and alternatively as a parody.
* GeniusBonus: A brief section of musical notation is printed late in the book. It is the first line of the refrain of "When Johnny Comes Marching Home", otherwise known as "The Ants Go Marching One by One".
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%%ZCE * AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Not a single character in the book that isn't subject to this, which [[InvertedTrope seemed to be the point of the entire book anyway]], considering Danieleski's fortay.Danielewski's forte.
* BaseBreaker: [[spoiler: Johnny's fate]] is this for some, especially since [[spoiler: the book technically provides a BittersweetEnding for the Navidsons and even Zampano, but yet Johnny doesn't get anything and when he does, he tells the reader it was a ruse]].
* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: Johnny's digressions about his and Lude's sexual exploits can seem kind of pointless. Alternately, some readers will find ''everything'' about Johnny kind They come out of pointless. Johnny's incoherent writing is partly justified though because he uses drugs frequently, and, as he himself writes, often writes when on drugs nowhere and / or drunk.
don't have any bearing on the story.
%%ZCE * EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory: The book can be seen as a straight use and alternatively as a parody.
* GeniusBonus: A brief section of musical notation is printed late in the book. It is the first line of the refrain of "When Johnny Comes MarchingHome", otherwise known as Home" (a.k.a. "The Ants Go Marching One by One".One"). The main narrator is called Johnny and he can be considered "lost" during most of the story.
%%ZCE * EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory: The book can be seen as a straight use and alternatively as a parody.
* GeniusBonus: A brief section of musical notation is printed late in the book. It is the first line of the refrain of "When Johnny Comes Marching
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* ParanoiaFuel: This book '''will''' make you terrified of the dark, or better yet, wondering what's behind you.
--> ''[[NothingIsScarier Picture that in your dreams.]]''
* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: To the power of ten, and it makes the book more chaotic with the formatting that Danieleski put such effort in.
* TheWoobie: Pretty much ''everyone'', but especially Tom.
--> ''[[NothingIsScarier Picture that in your dreams.]]''
* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: To the power of ten, and it makes the book more chaotic with the formatting that Danieleski put such effort in.
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* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible:To the power of ten, and it makes the book more chaotic with For one thing, just the formatting that Danieleski (that Danielewski put such much effort in.
in) alone is chaotic and disorientating--deliberately, because the book is supposed to be a labyrinth just like the House itself is. Combined with the {{UnreliableNarrator}}s, the copious amounts of untranslated foreign-language text, and the fact that much of the book is open to many different interpretations, it can be a confusing read.
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* BaseBreaker: [[spoiler: Johnny's fate]] is this for some, especially since [[spoiler: the book technically provides a BittersweetEnding for the Navidsons and even Zampano, but yet Johnny doesn't get anything and when he does, he tells the reader it was a ruse]].
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The house, being supernatural and sinister, deeply affects its inhabitants psychologically and probably was actively trying to "suck" them in. Plus, Navidson is an explorer by nature and drawn to adventurous / dangerous situations (remember he's a photographer who willingly went to war-ridden countries), and as such of course couldn't resist exploring the House.
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* IdiotPlot: They really should've just moved out once hallways starting appearing out of nowhere.
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* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: Johnny's digressions about his and Lude's sexual exploits can seem kind of pointless. Alternately, some readers will find ''everything'' about Johnny kind of pointless.
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* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: Johnny's digressions about his and Lude's sexual exploits can seem kind of pointless. Alternately, some readers will find ''everything'' about Johnny kind of pointless. Johnny's incoherent writing is partly justified though because he uses drugs frequently, and, as he himself writes, often writes when on drugs and / or drunk.
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%%* FreudWasRight: Played with. Possibly played straight depending on your interpretation.
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* HarsherInHindsight: Very early in the story (page 10 or 11), Navy throws away a bit of Karen's hair that's stuck in a brush, and Karen jokingly states that she'll go bald one day and need that hair. [[spoiler: In the story's epilogue, she's in remission from breast cancer.]]
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** Several strange interruptions are (presumably intentionally) meant to be like this. Like the time when the text is going so insane that it suddenly transforms into a ''musical score''... unless, of course, [[GeniusBonus you know what the score ''is'', as shown below.]]
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** Several strange interruptions are (presumably intentionally) meant to be like this. Like the time when the text is going so insane that it suddenly transforms into a ''musical score''.score''... unless, of course, [[GeniusBonus you know what the score ''is'', as shown below.]]
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** Several strange interruptions are (presumably intentionally) meant to be like this. Like the time when the text is going so insane that it suddenly transforms into a ''musical score''.
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* GeniusBonus: A brief section of musical notation is printed late in the book. It is the first line of the refrain of "When Johnny Comes Marching Home", otherwise known as "The Ants Go Marching One by One".
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* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: Johnny's digressions about his and Lude's sexual exploits can seem kind of pointless. Alternately, some readers will find ''everything'' about Johnny kind of pointless.
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* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: The whole book.
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* IdiotPlot: They really should've just moved out once hallways starting appearing out of nowhere.
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ymmv can not have examples, only their subitems can
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* YourMileageMayVary: As with all [[MarkZDanielewski Mark Z. Danielewski]] books, this is either a very scary book or a pretentious messy tangle of symbolism. [[TakeAThirdOption Or]] [[TropesAreNotBad both.]]
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* YourMileageMayVary: As with all [=~Mark [[MarkZDanielewski Mark Z. Danielewski~=] Danielewski]] books, this is either a very scary book or a pretentious messy tangle of symbolism. [[TakeAThirdOption Or]] [[TropesAreNotBad both.]]
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Moved Fetish Retardant to Main Page - it\'s Invoked and therefore not YMMV
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* FetishRetardant: Used deliberately with Johnnie.
** Just to be clear, Johnnie (the woman) is an entirely separate ([[OrIsIt ?]]) character from Johnny (the commentator).
** Just to be clear, Johnnie (the woman) is an entirely separate ([[OrIsIt ?]]) character from Johnny (the commentator).
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no linking to Epileptic Trees. The WMG button will suffice.
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* EpilepticTrees: [[WMG/HouseOfLeaves And how!]]
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game, not a trope.
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* BetterThanItSounds: It is, for obvious reasons, really, ''really'' hard to explain this book to people.
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* FetishRetardant: Used deliberately with Johnnie.
** Just to be clear, Johnnie (the woman) is an entirely separate ([[OrIsIt ?]]) character from Johnny (the commentator).
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* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: To the power of ten.
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* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: The whole book.
