* GeniusBonus: The safe picker tells his brother when pressed to get a real job, "Would you have a doctor take up a pick? A chemist sit behind the wheel of a truck?" This is incredibly close to Ralph Waldo Emerson's ''Fate'', "His parentage determines it. Men are what their mothers made them. You may as well ask a loom which weaves huckaback, why it does not make cashmere, as expect poetry from this engineer, or a chemical discovery from that jobber. Ask the digger in the ditch to explain Newton's laws: the fine organs of his brain have been pinched by overwork and squalid poverty from father to son." This quote also times in closely to the theme and plot of the film.
* {{Glurge}}: Don't try to be popular with a seductive vixen or you shall pay!
* TooBleakStoppedCaring: The movie is essentially this trope: the motion picture. Between Betty’s manipulation, Marv’s bad decision making and the overall bleak tone that goes throughout, it’s hard to really find anything enjoyable in this movie.
* TheWoobie: It's a little hard to not feel sorry for Marv's dad as he's doing his part to try and turn his life around for both his own and Marv's sake, but ultimately everything not within his control doesn't work out for him.

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