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1	!! The novel:
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3	* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation:
4	** Anna Howe, devoted friend who gives unreasonable advice, or [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Woman]] coming from Richardson's subconscious to tell him how people should react to the condition of women? Telling some harsh jokes about some men and trying to hide her feelings for her fiance, or hardened JerkassWoobie misandrist? [[UndyingLoyalty Very attached to her friend]], or plainly [[LesYay in love]]?
5	** Mrs. Harlowe: sweet woman under the power of her would-be-dictator husband, a well-intentioned but traumatized victim of DomesticAbuse, or a prone-to-{{Wangst}}, weak, pathetic ManipulativeBastard [[AbusiveParents abusive mother]]?
6	* DracoInLeatherPants: Lovelace. Some people wrote to ask a happy ending for Clarissa and him. The author had to keep adding new bits with each edition to highlight what a hideous person Lovelace was.
7	* EnsembleDarkhorse: A modern viewer can't help but wonder what happens during the story, and before it, to Anna Howe, the spirited, funny and fiercely loyal girl who has self-worth and [[TheGhost Mr Hickman]], the fiance who loves her, respects her, and seems to see right through her sometimes abrasive behavior that she is awesome.
8	* SpiritualSuccessor: ''Clarissa'' shares the same premise with Richardson's previous work, ''Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded'', only except many readers find this to be better written than the latter, with an {{Aesop}} that [[ValuesResonance is still valuable nowadays]].
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10	!! The webcomic:
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12	* AudienceAlienatingPremise: It has as large an audience as possible given its very bleak subject matter.
13	* TooBleakStoppedCaring: It's about a little girl suffering sexual abuse at the hands of her father, and her entire family is complicit in covering it up. Kind of hard to avoid this.
14	* TheWoobie: Clarissa. Her entire plight with being sexually abused and the adults all around her doing nothing about it can make you wish you can just jump into the comic and rescue her.

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