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* DeterminedWidow: She redoubles her resistance to the Windrip regime after it claims the life of her husband.
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A bitter, lazy hired man employed by the Jessops to care for their grounds. He later joins the Minute Men and rises to power in their ranks.

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A bitter, lazy hired man employed by the Jessops Jessups to care for their grounds. He later joins the Minute Men and rises to power in their ranks.
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[[folder: Jessop Household]]

!!Doremus Jessop

A New England newspaper publisher with a strong sense of justice. He watches nervously as Windrip takes power, then resolves to quietly resist the regime.

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[[folder: Jessop Jessup Household]]

!!Doremus Jessop

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A New England Fort Beulah, Vermont newspaper publisher with a strong sense of justice. He watches nervously as Windrip takes power, then resolves to quietly resist the regime.



!!Emma Jessop

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!!Emma Jessop
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!!Cecilia "Sissy" Jessop

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!!Cecilia "Sissy" Jessop
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The Jessop family housekeeper, a kindly older woman.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: When M.M.s barge into the Jessops' home and terrorize the family, Mrs. Candy violently lunges at one of the M.Ms.

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The Jessop Jessup family housekeeper, a kindly older woman.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: When M.M.s barge into the Jessops' Jessups' home and terrorize the family, Mrs. Candy violently lunges at one of the M.Ms.



* MamaBear: Do '''not''' touch any of the Jessops. She lunged at one of the M.M.s who stormed into the house looking for Doremus. Later, when Shad visited Sissy at the house, she hid with a knife in hand in case Shad tried to harm Sissy.

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* MamaBear: Do '''not''' touch any of the Jessops.Jessups. She lunged at one of the M.M.s who stormed into the house looking for Doremus. Later, when Shad visited Sissy at the house, she hid with a knife in hand in case Shad tried to harm Sissy.
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* DeadlyDecadentCourt: His administration is characterized by ruthless internal politics and jostling for power. Doubly so near the end of the book, when [[spoiler: Saranson sends him to exile in Europe, and Haik later assassinates Saranson.]]

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* DeadlyDecadentCourt: DecadentCourt: His administration is characterized by ruthless internal politics and jostling for power. Doubly so near the end of the book, when [[spoiler: Saranson sends him to exile in Europe, and Haik later assassinates Saranson.]]
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* StraightEdgeEvil: The "pious Puritan" to his preceeding bosses' hedonistic depravity. In contrast, his reign is marked not by greedy looting and corruption but by brutality, purges, and ruling the nation "like a well-run plantation."

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Good Adultery Bad Adultery now requires two affairs; the work must portray one as "good" and the other as "bad"


* GoodAdulteryBadAdultery: She and Doremus have been having an ongoing affair. Their relationship is a loving, passionate one between intellectual equals, and the novel encourages readers to approve of the affair.




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* SympatheticAdulterer: She and Doremus have been having an ongoing affair. Their relationship is a loving, passionate one between intellectual equals, and the novel encourages readers to approve of the affair.

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%%* AllGaysArePromiscuous


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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: He's an American Ernst Röhm. [[spoiler:One who ''really was'' plotting against his leader, too.]]
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* ExpyCoexistence: He's clearly based on Huey Long, but Long is also mentioned a few times in the book and compared to Windrip.
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* TheCynic: How most of his neighbors view him due to his realistic take on the likelihood of Windrip's becoming a dictator. He's shown to [[PlayedWith have played with]] being a [[TheFatalist fatalist]] due to his view that a dictatorship was inevitable due to discontent and weakness of the country due to the [[TheGreatDepression current crisis]].
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* GovernmentInExile: The core of one in Canada

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* GovernmentInExile: The core of one in CanadaCanada.
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* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Despite being fairly anemic during the election, Trowbridge's escape is portrayed as a well-struck blow against the Corpo state. He manages to abscond to Canada right under Windrip's nose with a fair amount of loyal military personnel and materiel in tow, and becomes the de facto head of resistence against Windrip.

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* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Despite being fairly anemic during the election, Trowbridge's escape is portrayed as a well-struck blow against the Corpo state. He manages to abscond to Canada right under Windrip's nose with a fair amount of loyal military personnel and materiel in tow, and after which he becomes the de facto head of resistence against Windrip.the American government in exile.
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* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Despite being fairly anemic during the election, Trowbridge's escape is portrayed as a well-struck blow against the Corpo state, absconding to Canada right under Windrip's nose with a fair amount of loyal military personnel and materiel in tow.

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* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Despite being fairly anemic during the election, Trowbridge's escape is portrayed as a well-struck blow against the Corpo state, absconding state. He manages to abscond to Canada right under Windrip's nose with a fair amount of loyal military personnel and materiel in tow.tow, and becomes the de facto head of resistence against Windrip.
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* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: When the Minute Men come to arrest him, Trowbdrige ''invites them to a barbeque''. He waits until his would-be captors are all blackout drunk, whereupon a plane lands on his large farm. Trowbdrige absconds to Winnipeg under the cover of fireworks, taking loyal members of the military and a solid cache of military materiel with him.

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* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: When Despite being fairly anemic during the Minute Men come election, Trowbridge's escape is portrayed as a well-struck blow against the Corpo state, absconding to arrest him, Trowbdrige ''invites them to a barbeque''. He waits until his would-be captors are all blackout drunk, whereupon a plane lands on his large farm. Trowbdrige absconds to Winnipeg Canada right under the cover Windrip's nose with a fair amount of fireworks, taking loyal members of the military personnel and a solid cache of military materiel with him.in tow.



* NobleFugitive: Trowbridge's escape is portrayed as well-struck blow against the Corpo state.

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* NobleFugitive: Trowbridge's escape is portrayed as well-struck blow against The primary pretender to the Corpo state.
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