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* DoorstopBaby: Frimme Hersh was so well-known in his community for his goodness and philanthropy that some nameless mother leaves a baby girl on his doorstop. Frimme Hersh [[HappilyAdopted adopts the child]] and names her Rachele.
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* DoorstopBaby: Frimme Hersh was so well-known in his community for his goodness and philanthropy that some nameless mother leaves a baby girl on his doorstop. Frimme Hersh [[HappilyAdopted adopts the child]] and names her Rachele.
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* DoorstopBaby: Frimme Hersh was so well-known in his community for his goodness and philanthropy that some nameless mother leaves a baby girl on his doorstop. Frimme Hersh [[HappilyAdopted adopts the child]] and names her Rachele.
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* ReplacementGoldfish: Alluded to in one panel near the end: Frimme Hersh, when he plans to renew his contract, dreams wildly of getting married, having a daughter, and naming her Rachele, just like his deceased adopted daughter.
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* GoldDigger: Goldie and Benny is this trope, though the latter is a male example. [[spoiler: When Benny discovered that Goldie was this rather than a wealthy person, he raped her out of frustration.]]
** Fannie seems to be a frustrated one. Most of her harangues directed at Sam are about money, and she claims that the whole reason for their AwfulWeddedLife is because he is a bad provider (when in fact they're no worse off than their neighbors and better off than some).
** Fannie seems to be a frustrated one. Most of her harangues directed at Sam are about money, and she claims that the whole reason for their AwfulWeddedLife is because he is a bad provider (when in fact they're no worse off than their neighbors and better off than some).
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* GoldDigger: Goldie and Benny is this trope, though the latter is a male example. [[spoiler: When Benny discovered that Goldie was this rather than a wealthy person, he raped her out of frustration.]]
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* CrazyJealousGuy: Irving Minkus, Sam's boss. Mind you, [[ReallyGetsAround she's given him every reason to distrust her]].
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* CrazyJealousGuy: Irving Minkus, Sam's boss. Mind you, [[ReallyGetsAround she's his wife has given him every reason to distrust her]].
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* CrazyJealousGuy: Irving Minkus, Sam's boss. Mind you, [[ReallyGetsAround she's given him every reason to distrust her]].
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* FetishizedAbuser: When Irving Minkus catches his wife [[ReallyGetsAround up to her old tricks]], he slaps her around a bit and seems to be working himself up to a more serious beating or worse, but she defuses the situation by seducing him. They then proceed to have sex ''right in front of the fifteen-year-old boy that she'd been cheating on him with''. You get the impression that [[AwfulWeddedLife this is just how their marriage works]].
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* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: [[spoiler: Missus Minkus sleeps with fifteen-year-old Willie, and doesn't mind after she finds out.]] [[spoiler: Missus Minkus]] is not condemned for statutory rape and [[spoiler: Willie]] is met with compliments regarding his age. It is ambiguous as to whether he has been traumatized.
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* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: [[spoiler: Missus Minkus sleeps with fifteen-year-old Willie, and doesn't mind after when she finds out.out his real age.]] [[spoiler: Missus Minkus]] is not condemned for statutory rape and [[spoiler: Willie]] is met with compliments regarding his age. It is ambiguous as to whether he has been traumatized.
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* DomesticAbuse: Sadly common. Alcoholic or [[CrazyJealousGuy jealous]] husbands beat their wives, and while the wives sometimes retaliate physically, they're more likely to abuse their husbands emotionally.
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** If he has been, it's difficult to separate that trauma from the trauma he suffers from [[DomesticAbuse seeing her beaten]] by her CrazyJealousGuy husband, then watching them [[FetishizedAbuser have make-up sex]].
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* AwfulWeddedLife: Sam and Fannie in ''Cookalein''. She's verbally abusive, with ''literally'' never a kind word for him, and he's cheating on her. When she finds out, she's not at all surprised. She just adds it to her endless list of grievances and refuses to contemplate a divorce.
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* SourPrudes: When Sam tries to talk to Fannie about their marital issues in the privacy of their bedroom in ''Cookalein'', she scolds him for using "dirty words" when he says the word "sex".
* SympatheticAdulterer: Sam in ''Cookalein''. His wife is verbally abusive and they have a SexlessMarriage. When she finds out he's having an affair, she's not surprised and believes it's because she's become physically unattractive after a life of poverty and hard work, but a) Sam ''wants'' to have more sex with her, but she's a SourPrude who refuses to discuss it; and b) the woman he's cheating on her with is in fact prettier than she is, but is middle-aged and working poor just like they are. In the end, it's clear that Sam is cheating with this other woman simply because ''she actually likes him''.
* SympatheticAdulterer: Sam in ''Cookalein''. His wife is verbally abusive and they have a SexlessMarriage. When she finds out he's having an affair, she's not surprised and believes it's because she's become physically unattractive after a life of poverty and hard work, but a) Sam ''wants'' to have more sex with her, but she's a SourPrude who refuses to discuss it; and b) the woman he's cheating on her with is in fact prettier than she is, but is middle-aged and working poor just like they are. In the end, it's clear that Sam is cheating with this other woman simply because ''she actually likes him''.
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* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: [[spoiler: Missus Minkus sleeps with fifteen-year-old Willie, and doesn't mind after she finds out.]] [[Missus Minkus]] is not condemned for statutory rape and [[Willie]] is met with compliments regarding his age. It is ambiguous as to whether he has been traumatized.
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* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: [[spoiler: Missus Minkus sleeps with fifteen-year-old Willie, and doesn't mind after she finds out.]] [[Missus [[spoiler: Missus Minkus]] is not condemned for statutory rape and [[Willie]] [[spoiler: Willie]] is met with compliments regarding his age. It is ambiguous as to whether he has been traumatized.
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* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: [[spoiler: Missus Minkus sleeps with fifteen-year-old Willie, and doesn't mind after she finds out.]] [[Missus Minkus]] is not condemned for statutory rape and [[Willie]] is met with compliments regarding his age. It is ambiguous as to whether he has been traumatized.
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''A Contract with God and Other Tenement Stories'' (1978) is the first Graphic Novel written by Creator/WillEisner, who also wrote ''ComicBook/TheSpirit'' in 1940s. Although it popularized the concept and term "graphic novel", it is not so much a novel as a collection of short stories, each with a different cast of characters but each dealing with the inhabitants of a tenement in Dropsie Avenue.
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''A Contract with God and Other Tenement Stories'' (1978) is the first Graphic Novel written by Creator/WillEisner, who also wrote ''ComicBook/TheSpirit'' in the 1940s. Although it popularized the concept and term "graphic novel", it is not so much a novel as a collection of short stories, each with a different cast of characters but each dealing with the inhabitants of a tenement in Dropsie Avenue.
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* BargainWithHeaven: ZigZagged. In his youth, during the persecution of jews in UsefulNotes/{{Tsarist Russia}}, the main character of the titular story, Frimme Hersh, writes down a contract with God on a stone tablet. In his later life in America he respects the terms of the contract scrupulously and he lives an happy life. However, when he rescinds it, he is even more successful by mundane standards, but he is unhappy. He finally tries to recant.
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* BargainWithHeaven: ZigZagged. In his youth, during the persecution of jews Jews in UsefulNotes/{{Tsarist Russia}}, the main character of the titular story, Frimme Hersh, writes down a contract with God on a stone tablet. In his later life in America America, he respects the terms of the contract scrupulously and he lives an a happy life. However, when he rescinds it, he is even more successful by mundane standards, but he is unhappy. He finally tries to recant.
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* HonorableMarriageProposal: Herbie's proposal to [[spoiler: Goldie]] after she's been raped by [[spoiler: Benny]]. Strongly implied that this will actually work out well for them, since he loved her already and, as a doctor, [[GoldDigger he's exactly the kind of advantageous marriage she was looking for in the first place]].
* {{Hypocrite}}: When Frimme Hersh tells the story of his contract with God to the elders of the synagogue and asks them to draw a new one, their perplexed and horrified looks show that they immediately realize how blasphemous is his request. Later they discuss the request and one of them {{lampshades}} that they would violate the law of God by abiding to Hersh's request. But they decide that they are just abbreviating the law. It is implied that the reason is that Hersh has promised to donate to the synagogue the tenement at 55 Dropsie Avenue if they procure him a new contract with God.
* {{Hypocrite}}: When Frimme Hersh tells the story of his contract with God to the elders of the synagogue and asks them to draw a new one, their perplexed and horrified looks show that they immediately realize how blasphemous is his request. Later they discuss the request and one of them {{lampshades}} that they would violate the law of God by abiding to Hersh's request. But they decide that they are just abbreviating the law. It is implied that the reason is that Hersh has promised to donate to the synagogue the tenement at 55 Dropsie Avenue if they procure him a new contract with God.
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* HonorableMarriageProposal: Herbie's proposal to [[spoiler: Goldie]] after she's been raped by [[spoiler: Benny]]. Strongly implied that this will actually work out well for them, them since he loved her already and, as a doctor, [[GoldDigger he's exactly the kind of advantageous marriage she was looking for in the first place]].
* {{Hypocrite}}: When Frimme Hersh tells the story of his contract with God to the elders of the synagogue and asks them to draw a new one, their perplexed and horrified looks show that they immediately realize how blasphemous is his request. Later they discuss the request and one of them {{lampshades}} that they would violate the law of God by abidingto by Hersh's request. But they decide that they are just abbreviating the law. It is implied that the reason is that Hersh has promised to donate to the synagogue the tenement at 55 Dropsie Avenue if they procure him a new contract with God.
* {{Hypocrite}}: When Frimme Hersh tells the story of his contract with God to the elders of the synagogue and asks them to draw a new one, their perplexed and horrified looks show that they immediately realize how blasphemous is his request. Later they discuss the request and one of them {{lampshades}} that they would violate the law of God by abiding
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* SelectiveObliviousness: Frimme Hersh never seems to realize that pretending to bind God's will on equal terms with a human being is a blasphemy according to his own religion.
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* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: [[spoiler: Despite being 10 years old, Rosie knew about Scugg's sexual interest and even seduced him for money. Also she murdered his dog with poison.]]
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* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: [[spoiler: Despite being 10 years old, Rosie knew about Scugg's sexual interest and even seduced him for money. Also Also, she murdered his dog with poison.]]
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* YouHaveToHaveJews: Like Will Eisner, the setting of the stories is in Bronx Jewish neighborhoods.
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* KickTheDog: Frimme Hersh seems to go out of his way to be the worst landlord he can be, but particularly egregious is when, after being reminded that "Missis Kelly", who was kind to him earlier in the story, won't be able to pay the newly-increased rent since she's on a widow's pension from Ireland, he callously says "No exceptions!"
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* KickTheDog: Frimme Hersh seems to go out of his way to be the worst landlord he can be, but particularly egregious is when, when he callously says "No exceptions!" after being reminded that "Missis Kelly", who was kind to him earlier in the story, won't be able to pay the newly-increased rent since she's on a widow's pension from Ireland, he callously says "No exceptions!" Ireland.
