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** Corrine may be in denial of just how long her children have been locked up as she continues to buy them games and books meant for much younger children. In particular, she keeps buying Cathy clothing meant for younger girls without realizing that Cathy has sprouted breasts and can no longer fit into them, as well as continually forgetting to buy Cathy bras no matter how many times she asks her for them.
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** Corrine may be in denial of just how long her children have been locked up as she continues to buy them games and books not only meant for much younger children.children, but that they've already read. In particular, she keeps buying Cathy clothing meant for younger girls without realizing that Cathy has sprouted breasts and can no longer fit into them, as well as continually forgetting to buy Cathy bras no matter how many times she asks her for them.
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--> [[spoiler: "Our grandfather is dead! He's been dead almost a year!"]]
--> [[spoiler: "Our grandfather is dead! He's been dead almost a year!"]]
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* MovingTheGoalposts: Corrine, with regards to when the children can leave the attic. First she tells them it will only be for a night, then a few days, then as soon as she gets back into her father's good graces before finally admitting that not until her father died will they be allowed to come out. But between how long this is taking and Corrine's growing detachment from her children, the fed up Cathy and Chris begin making plans to escape.
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** Corrine may be in denial of just how long her children have been locked up as she continues to buy them games and books meant for much younger children. In particular, she keeps buying Cathy clothing meant for younger girls without realizing that Cathy has sprouted breasts and can no longer fit into them.
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** Corrine may be in denial of just how long her children have been locked up as she continues to buy them games and books meant for much younger children. In particular, she keeps buying Cathy clothing meant for younger girls without realizing that Cathy has sprouted breasts and can no longer fit into them, as well as continually forgetting to buy Cathy bras no matter how many times she asks her for them.
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* SkinnyDipping: Technically, they go swimming in their undies, but Cathy doesn't own a bra. Plus it's noted that water + moonlight = practically translucent when it comes to tighty-whities.
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* SkinnyDipping: Technically, they go swimming in their undies, but Cathy doesn't own a bra. Plus it's noted that water + moonlight = practically translucent when it comes to tighty-whities.tighty-whiteys.
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* WigDressAccent: Chris's disguise when he sneaks out to explore. Cathy compares him to Creator/GrouchoMarx.
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* WigDressAccent: Chris's disguise when he sneaks out to explore. Cathy compares him to Creator/GrouchoMarx.Creator/GrouchoMarx.
* WorstAid: When Cory nearly suffocates and freezes to death, one of the first things Chris and Cathy do after they're sure he's breathing is put him in a bath. Giving him a hot bath while Cory's condition was bad enough to change the color of his skin could have caused him to go into shock. Though Chris and Cathy also do the right thing by trying to get his blood moving to warm him.
* WorstAid: When Cory nearly suffocates and freezes to death, one of the first things Chris and Cathy do after they're sure he's breathing is put him in a bath. Giving him a hot bath while Cory's condition was bad enough to change the color of his skin could have caused him to go into shock. Though Chris and Cathy also do the right thing by trying to get his blood moving to warm him.
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* AngstySurvivingTwin: [[spoiler: Carrie]]
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* BigBadDuumvirate: Corrine and Olivia.
* BigFancyHouse: Foxworth Hall.
* BigScrewedUpFamily: The Foxworths.
* BigFancyHouse: Foxworth Hall.
* BigScrewedUpFamily: The Foxworths.
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* ChekhovsGun: The old stained, smelly mattress in the attic
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* DaddysGirl:
** Cathy
** Corrine once ways, and aspires to become this again.
* DancesAndBalls: The Christmas party.
* DarkSecret: This family is made of them.
** Perhaps the most interesting case is the children themselves as an InvertedTrope
--->''He came closer to whisper in a sly and conspiratorial stage whisper, "I'll be back soon, my fair beauty, and when I'm back, I shall bring with me all the dark and mysterious secrets of this huge, huge, old, old house." And suddenly, he caught me by surprise, and swooped to plant a kiss on my cheek.\\
Secrets? And he said I was given to exaggerations! What was the matter with him? Didn't he know that ''we'' were the secrets?''
** Cathy
** Corrine once ways, and aspires to become this again.
* DancesAndBalls: The Christmas party.
* DarkSecret: This family is made of them.
** Perhaps the most interesting case is the children themselves as an InvertedTrope
--->''He came closer to whisper in a sly and conspiratorial stage whisper, "I'll be back soon, my fair beauty, and when I'm back, I shall bring with me all the dark and mysterious secrets of this huge, huge, old, old house." And suddenly, he caught me by surprise, and swooped to plant a kiss on my cheek.\\
Secrets? And he said I was given to exaggerations! What was the matter with him? Didn't he know that ''we'' were the secrets?''
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* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep[=/=]UnnamedParent: Everyone calls the Grandmother "The Grandmother," including her daughter (who at most amends it to "your grandmother"). Her name's revealed to be Olivia in next book.
* EvilMatriarch: The Grandmother. [[spoiler:Corrine joins her later]]
* EvilMatriarch: The Grandmother. [[spoiler:Corrine joins her later]]
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* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep[=/=]UnnamedParent: EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Everyone calls the Grandmother "The Grandmother," including her daughter (who at most amends it to "your grandmother"). Her name's revealed to be Olivia in the next book.
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* FallenPrincess: DeconstructedTrope. Corrine comes from vast wealth and gave it all up to marry her husband, but once he's dead she won't work and returns to her family, hoping to be rich again. [[spoiler: She ends up trying to kill off her own children just to get her inheritance]].
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* FallenPrincess: DeconstructedTrope. Corrine comes from vast wealth and gave it all up to marry her husband, but once he's dead she won't work and returns to her family, hoping to be rich again. [[spoiler: She ends up trying to kill off her own children just to get her inheritance]].inheritance.]]
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* FourTemperamentEnsemble: The four Dollanganger kids
** Cathy: Choleric
** Chris: Melancholic
** Cory: Phlegmatic
** Carrie: Sanguine
* TheFundamentalist: The Grandmother.
* GenerationXerox: Chris and Cathy. They only get more so as the series moves on.
* TheGhost: Malcolm, Corrine's father.
** Cathy: Choleric
** Chris: Melancholic
** Cory: Phlegmatic
** Carrie: Sanguine
* TheFundamentalist: The Grandmother.
* GenerationXerox: Chris and Cathy. They only get more so as the series moves on.
* TheGhost: Malcolm, Corrine's father.
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* MamaBear: Cathy becomes one as she gradually turns into a surrogate mother to the twins.
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* QuestionableConsent: Chris and Cathy have sex once, and the consent is deliberately unclear. It can definitely be said that in the moment right before it, no consent was ''communicated'', which puts it pretty firmly in the rape category. The characters' ''subjective experiences'' of the event, on the other hand, are rather more nuanced and murky. Almost as soon as it's over, Chris has an MyGodWhatHaveIDone moment and explicitly calls it rape when he apologizes. Cathy firmly insists that it was not rape and she does not hold it against him--she says this twice in the night that follow. There definitely ''isn't'' NotIfTheyEnjoyedItRationalization going on here: It hurts, Cathy doesn't come, and when Cory is sick Cathy begs God not to punish him for her and Chris's actions, saying, ''"And it wasn't any pleasure, God, not really, not any."''
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* RichBitch: Corrine becomes one.
* QuestionableConsent: Chris and Cathy have sex once, and the consent is deliberately unclear. It can definitely be said that in the moment right before it, no consent was ''communicated'', which puts it pretty firmly in the rape category. The characters' ''subjective experiences'' of the event, on the other hand, are rather more nuanced and murky. Almost as soon as it's over, Chris has an MyGodWhatHaveIDone moment and explicitly calls it rape when he apologizes. Cathy firmly insists that it was not rape and she does not hold it against him--she says this twice in the night that follow. There definitely ''isn't'' NotIfTheyEnjoyedItRationalization going on here: It hurts, Cathy doesn't come, and when Cory is sick Cathy begs God not to punish him for her and Chris's actions, saying, ''"And it wasn't any pleasure, God, not really, not any."''
* QuestionableConsent: Chris and Cathy have sex once, and the consent is deliberately unclear. It can definitely be said that in the moment right before it, no consent was ''communicated'', which puts it pretty firmly in the rape category. The characters' ''subjective experiences'' of the event, on the other hand, are rather more nuanced and murky. Almost as soon as it's over, Chris has an MyGodWhatHaveIDone moment and explicitly calls it rape when he apologizes. Cathy firmly insists that it was not rape and she does not hold it against him--she says this twice in the night that follow. There definitely ''isn't'' NotIfTheyEnjoyedItRationalization going on here: It hurts, Cathy doesn't come, and when Cory is sick Cathy begs God not to punish him for her and Chris's actions, saying, ''"And it wasn't any pleasure, God, not really, not any."''
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* QuestionableConsent: Chris and Cathy have sex once, and the consent is deliberately unclear. It can definitely be said that in the moment right before it, no consent was ''communicated'', which puts it pretty firmly in the rape category. The characters' ''subjective experiences'' of the event, on the other hand, are rather more nuanced and murky. Almost as soon as it's over, Chris has an MyGodWhatHaveIDone moment and explicitly calls it rape when he apologizes. Cathy firmly insists that it was not rape and she does not hold it against him--she says this twice in the night that follow. There definitely ''isn't'' NotIfTheyEnjoyedItRationalization going on here: It hurts, Cathy doesn't come, and when Cory is sick Cathy begs God not to punish him for her and Chris's actions, saying, ''"And it wasn't any pleasure, God, not really, not any."''
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* SexIsEvil[=/=]SexIsEvilAndIAmHorny: SexIsEvil is the only proper attitude about sexuality in Foxworth Hall. Naturally, SexIsEvilAndIAmHorny is the result of that kind of repressed upbringing.
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* SexIsEvil[=/=]SexIsEvilAndIAmHorny: SexIsEvil SexIsEvil: Total abstinence is the only proper attitude about sexuality in Foxworth Hall. Naturally, SexIsEvilAndIAmHorny is the result of that kind of repressed upbringing.
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* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: In her pitch letter for ''Flowers in the Attic,'' Andrews insisted that the book was based on real events. Later, family members stated that during her adolescent hospital stays, Andrews had become enamored with a handsome young doctor and that he had confided that he and his siblings had been locked in an attic for many years in order to gain an inheritance. No other evidence has come forth to confirm this claim (and Andrews and her publishers distanced themselves from the story over the years) but it occasionally surfaces as an urban legend.
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** In her pitch letter for ''Flowers in the Attic,'' Andrews insisted that the book was based on real events. Later, family members stated that during her adolescent hospital stays, Andrews had become enamored with a handsome young doctor and that he had confided that he and his siblings had been locked in an attic for many years in order to gain an inheritance. No other evidence has come forth to confirm this claim (and Andrews and her publishers distanced themselves from the story over the years) but it occasionally surfaces as an urban legend.
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* WhatTheHellHero: Cathy and Chris are constantly demanding this of each other.
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* ChekhovsGun: The old stained, smelly mattress in the attic
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''Flowers'' has been adapted twice into film: first in 1987, and again as a TV movie by Creator/{{Lifetime}} in 2014. The [[Film/FlowersInTheAttic1987 1987 version is here]], and the [[Film/FlowersInTheAttic 2014 version is here]].
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* HeWillNotCrySoICryForHim: Screaming rather than crying--although actually, there might be some crying going on too. When the grandmother whips Chris, he stubbornly remains silent in an act of defiance. Cathy, on the other hand, screams throughout the whole thing. Afterward, Chris thanks Cathy for it, saying it helped him endure the pain and not cry out himself.
-->'''Chris:''' When she was lashing me, I heard you screaming--and I didn't have to. You did it for me, Cathy, and it helped; I didn't feel any pain but yours.
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* InfantSiblingJealousy: Cathy is ''wildly'' jealous when she finds out her mother is pregnant, and that she's going to have a new little sibling who will displace her as "the baby of the family." She gets over it soon enough after they're actually born, and before long she adores Cory and Carrie.
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* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: In her pitch letter for ''Flowers in the Attic,'' Andrews insisted that the book was based on real events. Later, family members stated that during her adolescent hospital stays, Andrews had become enamored with a handsome young doctor and that he had confided that he and his siblings had been locked in an attic for many years in order to gain an inheritance. No other evidence has come forth to confirm this claim (and Andrews and her publishers distanced themselves from the story over the years) but it occasionally surfaces as an urban legend.
** To a lesser extent, the incident where the grandmother puts tar in Cathy's hair may have really happened, in a roundabout way, to Andrews herself. After the tarring, Cathy tells a story about how she and a friend once overturned a bucket of tar from a road repaving and played in it, getting completely filthy and ending up with tar in their hair. An apocryphal anecdote from one of Andrews' relatives claims that this happened to Andrews as a young girl: while playing in some tar at a road paving, young Andrews got the muck in her hair and had to have it cut boyishly short to remove it. The relative claimed that Andrews, who prided herself on her long golden hair, was [[TraumaticHaircut traumatized by the incident.]]
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* SituationalSexuality: Cathy attributes her and Chris' attraction to this.
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* FictionalDocument: The story about Raymond, Lily, and the purple grass--probably. The book's name is not mentioned, but the author, T.M. Ellis, is. There was a real Victorian novelist and poet named Thomas Mullett Ellis who published books under the name T.M. Ellis. Not much is known about him, and finding his books these days is difficult, so it's at least possible that he did actually write a story that matches the one described.
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* FictionalDocument: The All of the books they read in the attic are real books, with one exception: the story about Raymond, Lily, and the purple grass--probably. The book's name is not mentioned, but the author, T.M. Ellis, is. There was a real Victorian novelist and poet named Thomas Mullett Ellis who published books under the name T.M. Ellis. Not much is known about him, and finding his books these days is difficult, so it's at least possible that he did actually write a story that matches the one described.
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** Perhaps the most interesting case is the children themselves as an InvertedTrope
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Secrets? And he said I was given to exaggerations! What was the matter with him? Didn't he know that ''we'' were the secrets?''
--->''He came closer to whisper in a sly and conspiratorial stage whisper, "I'll be back soon, my fair beauty, and when I'm back, I shall bring with me all the dark and mysterious secrets of this huge, huge, old, old house." And suddenly, he caught me by surprise, and swooped to plant a kiss on my cheek.\\
Secrets? And he said I was given to exaggerations! What was the matter with him? Didn't he know that ''we'' were the secrets?''
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* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Everyone calls the Grandmother "The Grandmother," including her daughter (who at most amends it to "your grandmother"). It isn't until later books that we learn her first name.
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* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep[=/=]UnnamedParent: Everyone calls the Grandmother "The Grandmother," including her daughter (who at most amends it to "your grandmother"). It isn't until later books that we learn her first name.Her name's revealed to be Olivia in next book.
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* FallenPrincess: Deconstructed. Corrine comes from vast wealth and gave it all up to marry her husband but once he's dead she won't work and returns to her family, hoping to be rich again. [[spoiler: She ends up trying to kill off her own children just to get her inheritance]].
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* FallenPrincess: Deconstructed. DeconstructedTrope. Corrine comes from vast wealth and gave it all up to marry her husband husband, but once he's dead she won't work and returns to her family, hoping to be rich again. [[spoiler: She ends up trying to kill off her own children just to get her inheritance]].
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* TheGhost: Malcolm, Corrine's father, in the first book.
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* InTheBlood: The Grandmother believes incest runs in the Dollanganger family... [[spoiler: [[ProperlyParanoid which it kind of does]], to be fair]].
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* KnittingPregnancyAnnouncement: Corrie tells her kids that she's pregnant while knitting a little baby sweater.
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* MeaningfulEcho:
** Early on, Cathy tells Chris that she'll respect him when pigs fly.
--->'''Chris:''' Speak respectfully when you speak to me.
--->'''Chris:''' La-dee-da, and ho-ho-ho! The day I speak respectfully to you, Christopher, will be the day you ''earn'' my respect--and that will be the day you stand twelve feet high, and the moon is at noon, and a blizzard blows in a unicorn ridden by a gallant knight wearing pure white shining armor, with a green dragon's head perched on the point of his lance!
** Later--when things are getting flirty--it is repeated, this time in the context of them playing at ChivalricRomance, where they re-frame it as something of an EngagementChallenge, perhaps in the vein of NoManOfWomanBorn.
--->'''Cathy:''' Christopher, all you need is a white horse and a shield.
--->'''Chris:''' No, a unicorn, and a lance with a green dragon's head upon its point, and back I'll gallop in my shining white armor while the blizzard blows in the month of August and the sun is mid-sky, and when I dismount you'll be looking up at someone who stands twelve feet high, so speak respectfully when you speak to me, my lady Cath-er-ine.
--->'''Cathy:''' Yes, my lord. Go forth and slay yonder dragon--but take not overlong, for I could be undone by all that menaces me and mine in this stone-cold castle, where all the drawbridges are up, and the portcullises are down.
** Early on, Cathy tells Chris that she'll respect him when pigs fly.
--->'''Chris:''' Speak respectfully when you speak to me.
--->'''Chris:''' La-dee-da, and ho-ho-ho! The day I speak respectfully to you, Christopher, will be the day you ''earn'' my respect--and that will be the day you stand twelve feet high, and the moon is at noon, and a blizzard blows in a unicorn ridden by a gallant knight wearing pure white shining armor, with a green dragon's head perched on the point of his lance!
** Later--when things are getting flirty--it is repeated, this time in the context of them playing at ChivalricRomance, where they re-frame it as something of an EngagementChallenge, perhaps in the vein of NoManOfWomanBorn.
--->'''Cathy:''' Christopher, all you need is a white horse and a shield.
--->'''Chris:''' No, a unicorn, and a lance with a green dragon's head upon its point, and back I'll gallop in my shining white armor while the blizzard blows in the month of August and the sun is mid-sky, and when I dismount you'll be looking up at someone who stands twelve feet high, so speak respectfully when you speak to me, my lady Cath-er-ine.
--->'''Cathy:''' Yes, my lord. Go forth and slay yonder dragon--but take not overlong, for I could be undone by all that menaces me and mine in this stone-cold castle, where all the drawbridges are up, and the portcullises are down.
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* MoralityChainBeyondTheGrave: Cathy has a moment of realizing she loves Chris, and that incesting with him would be a great way to strike back at her mother and grandparents. But their dad is in heaven watching over them, and ''that'' makes her feel ashamed enough to not go for it right then.
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* MoralityChainBeyondTheGrave: Cathy has a moment of realizing she loves Chris, and that incesting with him would be a great way to strike back at her mother and grandparents. But grandparents--but their dad is in heaven watching over them, and ''that'' makes her feel ashamed enough to not go for it right then.it.
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* PantyShot: Carrie apparently gives a lot of them according to Cathy.
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* RedOniBlueOni: Cathy is the Red Oni--TheIdealist--and Chris is the Blue Oni--TheIdealist. Cathy often thinks Chris is a "prisoner of hope," but she also loves him for this and depends on him as her counterbalance.
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* QuestionableConsent: Chris and Cathy have sex once, and the consent is deliberately murky. It can definitely be said that in the moment right before it, no consent was ''communicated'', which puts it pretty firmly in the rape category. The characters' ''subjective experiences'' of the event, on the other hand, are rather more nuanced and murky. Almost as soon as it's over, Chris has an MyGodWhatHaveIDone moment and explicitly calls it rape when he apologizes. Cathy firmly insists that it was not rape and she does not hold it against him--she says this twice in the night that follow. There definitely ''isn't'' NotIfTheyEnjoyedItRationalization going on here: When Cory is sick, Cathy begs God not to punish him for her and Chris's actions, saying, ''"And it wasn't any pleasure, God, not really, not any."''
* SelfFulfillingProphecy: [[spoiler: The whole point of Olivia's impossibly strict rules is to prevent incest from happening again, even though her determination to imprison the children is precisely what allows the incest to take place]].
* SexIsEvil: The only proper attitude about sexuality in Foxworth Hall.
* SexIsEvilAndIAmHorny: Naturally, this is the result of that kind of repressed upbringing.
* SelfFulfillingProphecy: [[spoiler: The whole point of Olivia's impossibly strict rules is to prevent incest from happening again, even though her determination to imprison the children is precisely what allows the incest to take place]].
* SexIsEvil: The only proper attitude about sexuality in Foxworth Hall.
* SexIsEvilAndIAmHorny: Naturally, this is the result of that kind of repressed upbringing.
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* QuestionableConsent: Chris and Cathy have sex once, and the consent is deliberately murky.unclear. It can definitely be said that in the moment right before it, no consent was ''communicated'', which puts it pretty firmly in the rape category. The characters' ''subjective experiences'' of the event, on the other hand, are rather more nuanced and murky. Almost as soon as it's over, Chris has an MyGodWhatHaveIDone moment and explicitly calls it rape when he apologizes. Cathy firmly insists that it was not rape and she does not hold it against him--she says this twice in the night that follow. There definitely ''isn't'' NotIfTheyEnjoyedItRationalization going on here: When It hurts, Cathy doesn't come, and when Cory is sick, sick Cathy begs God not to punish him for her and Chris's actions, saying, ''"And it wasn't any pleasure, God, not really, not any."''
* SelfFulfillingProphecy: [[spoiler: The whole point of Olivia's impossibly strict rules is to prevent incest from happening again, even though her determination to imprison the children is precisely what allows the incest to takeplace]].
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*SexIsEvil: The SexIsEvil[=/=]SexIsEvilAndIAmHorny: SexIsEvil is the only proper attitude about sexuality in Foxworth Hall.
* SexIsEvilAndIAmHorny:Hall. Naturally, this SexIsEvilAndIAmHorny is the result of that kind of repressed upbringing.
* SelfFulfillingProphecy: [[spoiler: The whole point of Olivia's impossibly strict rules is to prevent incest from happening again, even though her determination to imprison the children is precisely what allows the incest to take
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* TraumaticHaircut: The grandmother attempts to give Cathy one of these. When Cathy refuses, the grandmother first threatens to starve and beat the children, then attempts to force Cathy into the haircut by pouring hot tar over her head.
* UnnamedParent: Corrine's mother is known only as "The Grandmother" in the first book. Her name's revealed to be Olivia in later books.
* UnnamedParent: Corrine's mother is known only as "The Grandmother" in the first book. Her name's revealed to be Olivia in later books.
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* ThereIsOnlyOneBed: DefiedTrope. The room has 2 beds in it, and there are 4 kids. When they arrive, Carrie and Cory are half-asleep already, so they are put to sleep in one of the beds. It would follow, then, that Christopher and Cathy would share the other bed. In a moment of GenreSavvy, the Grandmother declares that this ''must not happen!'' She demands that Christopher and Cory share one bed, and Cathy and Carrie share the other.
* TraumaticHaircut: The grandmotherattempts tries to give Cathy one of these.{{Invoke|dTrope}} this with Cathy. When Cathy refuses, the grandmother first threatens to starve and beat the children, then attempts to force Cathy into the haircut by pouring hot tar over her head. \n* UnnamedParent: Corrine's mother is known only as "The Grandmother" in Cathy and Chris work very hard to {{Def|iedTrope}}y the first book. Her name's revealed to be Olivia in later books.trope.
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* WigDressAccent: Chris' disguise when he sneaks out to explore. Cathy compares him to Creator/GrouchoMarx.
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''Flowers'' has been adapted twice into film: first in 1987, and again as a TV movie by Creator/{{Lifetime}} in 2014. The [[Film/FlowersInTheAttic1987 1987 version is here]], and the [[Film/FlowersInTheAttic 2014 version is here]].
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''Flowers'' has been adapted twice into film: first in 1987, and again as a TV movie by Creator/{{Lifetime}} in 2014. Because the [[Film/FlowersInTheAttic 1987 version]] has its own page, any tropes pertaining to that adaption should go there.
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* AdaptationalConsent: In the book, the sex between Chris and Cathy is rape, or QuestionableConsent at best. In the movie, it's 100% consensual. There are a few reasons for this. In the book, Cathy and Chris's growing {{UST}} is a subplot, sure, but it's not the ''core'' of the story. Now ''Flowers'' is famous specifically ''for the incest''--that's what views are watching for. Lifetime was planning on doing all 4 books, and Chris and Cathy as a couple is central to the series as a whole. Without Cathy as a narrator, it would be very difficult to convey the nuance of that scene on screen even if they wanted to. So while it's a significant change, it's an understandable one.
* AdaptationExplanationExtrication: It removes the mention that [[spoiler: Malcolm Foxworth changed his will to say that Corrine would be disinherited if it was ever proven that she had children with Chris Sr]]. Thus it removes the most obvious motive for [[spoiler: poisoning the children, making it look like she simply just [[AdaptationalVillainy didn't care about them]] anymore]].
* AdaptationalModesty: In the book Chris walks in on Cathy topless admiring her new breasts--and begins to admire them right along with her. The movie changes this so Chris only accidentally sees Cathy in her underwear. An EnforcedTrope, as Kiernan Shipka was 13 during the filming.
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Chris still has visible abs even after being locked in the attic for over two years. While abs do usually form when a person doesn't eat a lot of food, the rest of his physique wouldn't look that toned if he was being malnourished--no matter what his exercise routine is. EnforcedTrope, as asking a young actor to become malnourished is unethical.
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''Flowers'' has been adapted twice into film: first in 1987, and again as a TV movie by Creator/{{Lifetime}} in 2014. Because the [[Film/FlowersInTheAttic 1987 version]] has its own page, any tropes pertaining to that adaption should go there.
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* AdaptationalConsent: In the book, the sex between Chris and Cathy is rape, or QuestionableConsent at best. In the movie, it's 100% consensual. There are a few reasons for this. In the book, Cathy and Chris's growing {{UST}} is a subplot, sure, but it's not the ''core'' of the story. Now ''Flowers'' is famous specifically ''for the incest''--that's what views are watching for. Lifetime was planning on doing all 4 books, and Chris and Cathy as a couple is central to the series as a whole. Without Cathy as a narrator, it would be very difficult to convey the nuance of that scene on screen even if they wanted to. So while it's a significant change, it's an understandable one.
* AdaptationExplanationExtrication: It removes the mention that [[spoiler: Malcolm Foxworth changed his will to say that Corrine would be disinherited if it was ever proven that she had children with Chris Sr]]. Thus it removes the most obvious motive for [[spoiler: poisoning the children, making it look like she simply just [[AdaptationalVillainy didn't care about them]] anymore]].
* AdaptationalModesty: In the book Chris walks in on Cathy topless admiring her new breasts--and begins to admire them right along with her. The movie changes this so Chris only accidentally sees Cathy in her underwear. An EnforcedTrope, as Kiernan Shipka was 13 during the filming.
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Chris still has visible abs even after being locked in the attic for over two years. While abs do usually form when a person doesn't eat a lot of food, the rest of his physique wouldn't look that toned if he was being malnourished--no matter what his exercise routine is. EnforcedTrope, as asking a young actor to become malnourished is unethical.
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* MoralityChainBeyondTheGrave: Cathy has a moment of realizing she loves Chris, and that incesting with him would be a great way to strike back at her mother and grandparents. But their dad is in heaven watching over them, and ''that'' makes her feel ashamed enough to not go for it right then.
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* ArmorPiercingResponse: Of the InsultBackfire flavor:
-->'''Grandmother:''' Did you read a page from the Bible yesterday?
-->'''Chris:''' No, we don't read a page--we read chapters. If you consider reading the Bible a form of punishment, then forget it. We find it fascinating reading. It's bloodier and lustier than any movie we ever saw, and talks more about sin than any book we ever read.
-->'''Grandmother:''' Did you read a page from the Bible yesterday?
-->'''Chris:''' No, we don't read a page--we read chapters. If you consider reading the Bible a form of punishment, then forget it. We find it fascinating reading. It's bloodier and lustier than any movie we ever saw, and talks more about sin than any book we ever read.
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* IWantMyMommy: In certain moments, the twins cry out for their real mother.
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* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep[=/=]SpellMyNameWithAThe: Everyone calls the Grandmother "The Grandmother," including her daughter (who at most amends it to "your grandmother"). It isn't until later books that we learn her first name.
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* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep[=/=]SpellMyNameWithAThe: EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Everyone calls the Grandmother "The Grandmother," including her daughter (who at most amends it to "your grandmother"). It isn't until later books that we learn her first name.
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** It's basically textual that Christopher is sexually attracted to--or at least very confused by--his mother Corrine. Corrine definitely plays into it a bit, what with her spinning around in negligees and [[MarshmallowHell constantly cradling him to her breast]], and one very memorable moment when she kisses him full on the lips.
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** It's basically textual that Christopher is sexually attracted to--or at least very confused by--his mother Corrine. Corrine definitely plays into it a bit, what with her spinning around in negligees and [[MarshmallowHell constantly cradling him to her breast]], and one very memorable moment when she kisses him full on the lips.
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* SelfFulfillingProphecy[=/=]HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler: The whole point of Olivia's impossibly strict rules is to prevent incest from happening again, even though her determination to imprison the children is precisely what allows the incest to take place]].
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* SelfFulfillingProphecy[=/=]HoistByHisOwnPetard: SelfFulfillingProphecy: [[spoiler: The whole point of Olivia's impossibly strict rules is to prevent incest from happening again, even though her determination to imprison the children is precisely what allows the incest to take place]].
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** SexIsEvilAndIAmHorny: Naturally, this is the result of that kind of repressed upbringing.
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* FourTemperamentEnsemble: The four Dollanganger kids
** Cathy: Choleric
** Chris: Melancholic
** Cory: Phlegmatic
** Carrie: Sanguine
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** Chris: Melancholic
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* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: When Chris admits to Cathy that ''yes of course he has doubts.''
-->'''Chris:''' Do you think I don't know that you are more a mother to Cory and Carrie than she is? Do you think I failed to see the twins only stared at their mother, like she was a stranger? Cathy, I'm not blind or stupid. I know Momma takes care of herself first, and us next.
-->'''Chris:''' Do you think I don't know that you are more a mother to Cory and Carrie than she is? Do you think I failed to see the twins only stared at their mother, like she was a stranger? Cathy, I'm not blind or stupid. I know Momma takes care of herself first, and us next.
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* {{Bowdlerise}}: The most famous thing about this adaptation is that it removed the incest that the story is so famous for in the first place.
-->'''[[https://www.thedailybeast.com/lifetimes-flowers-in-the-attic-review-the-incest-is-there-the-strange-magic-is-not One reviewer]]:''' Leaving the incest out of a ''Flowers'' adaptation is like turning Herman Melville's ''Literature/MobyDick'' into a movie about a man who's very determined to catch a flounder.
* AdaptationalModesty: In the book Chris walks in on Cathy topless admiring her new breasts--and begins to admire them right along with her. The the movie, this scene becomes Chris talking to Cathy while she's in the bath. There is an early scene where Chris talks to Cathy in the bath, so it combines the two.
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* {{Bowdlerise}}: The most famous thing about this adaptation is that it removed the incest that the story is so famous for in the first place.
-->'''[[https://www.thedailybeast.com/lifetimes-flowers-in-the-attic-review-the-incest-is-there-the-strange-magic-is-not One reviewer]]:''' Leaving the incest out of a ''Flowers'' adaptation is like turning Herman Melville's ''Literature/MobyDick'' into a movie about a man who's very determined to catch a flounder.
* AdaptationalModesty: In the book Chris walks in on Cathy topless admiring her new breasts--and begins to admire them right along with her. The the movie, this scene becomes Chris talking to Cathy while she's in the bath. There is an early scene where Chris talks to Cathy in the bath, so it combines the two.
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* {{Bowdlerise}}: The most famous thing about this adaptation is2014. Because the [[Film/FlowersInTheAttic 1987 version]] has it's own page, any tropes pertaining to that it removed the incest that the story is so famous for in the first place.
-->'''[[https://www.thedailybeast.com/lifetimes-flowers-in-the-attic-review-the-incest-is-there-the-strange-magic-is-not One reviewer]]:''' Leaving the incest out of a ''Flowers'' adaptation is like turning Herman Melville's ''Literature/MobyDick'' into a movie about a man who's very determined to catch a flounder.
* AdaptationalModesty: In the book Chris walks in on Cathy topless admiring her new breasts--and begins to admire them right along with her. The the movie, this scene becomes Chris talking to Cathy while she's in the bath. There is an early scene where Chris talks to Cathy in the bath, so it combines the two.
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* {{Bowdlerise}}: The most famous thing about this adaptation is
-->'''[[https://www.thedailybeast.com/lifetimes-flowers-in-the-attic-review-the-incest-is-there-the-strange-magic-is-not One reviewer]]:''' Leaving the incest out of a ''Flowers'' adaptation is like turning Herman Melville's ''Literature/MobyDick'' into a movie about a man who's very determined to catch a flounder.
* AdaptationalModesty: In the book Chris walks in on Cathy topless admiring her new breasts--and begins to admire them right along with her. The the movie, this scene becomes Chris talking to Cathy while she's in the bath. There is an early scene where Chris talks to Cathy in the bath, so it combines the two.
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* AdaptationalConsent: In the book it's rape, or QuestionableConsent at best. In the movie, it's 100% consensual. There are a few reasons for this. In the book, Cathy and Chris's growing {{UST}} is a subplot, sure, but it's not the ''core'' of the story. Now ''Flowers'' is famous specifically ''for the incest''--that's what views are watching for. Lifetime was planning on doing all 4 books, and Chris and Cathy as a couple is central to the series as a whole. Without Cathy as a narrator, it would be very difficult to convey the nuance of that scene on screen even if they wanted to. So while it's a significant change, it's an understandable one.
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* AdaptationalConsent: In the book it's book, the sex between Chris and Cathy is rape, or QuestionableConsent at best. In the movie, it's 100% consensual. There are a few reasons for this. In the book, Cathy and Chris's growing {{UST}} is a subplot, sure, but it's not the ''core'' of the story. Now ''Flowers'' is famous specifically ''for the incest''--that's what views are watching for. Lifetime was planning on doing all 4 books, and Chris and Cathy as a couple is central to the series as a whole. Without Cathy as a narrator, it would be very difficult to convey the nuance of that scene on screen even if they wanted to. So while it's a significant change, it's an understandable one.
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* AngstySurvivingTwin: [[spoiler: Carrie. At least until Christopher's Diary]]
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* AdaptationalModesty: In the book Chris walks in on Cathy topless admiring her new breasts--and begins to admire them right along with her. The the movie, this scene becomes Chris talking to Cathy while she's in the bath. (Note, there There is an early scene where Chris talks to Cathy in the bath, so it combines the two). two.
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* {{Bowdlerise}}: The most famous thing about this adaptation is that it removed the incest that the story is so famous for in the first place.
-->'''[[https://www.thedailybeast.com/lifetimes-flowers-in-the-attic-review-the-incest-is-there-the-strange-magic-is-not One reviewer]]:''' Leaving the incest out of a ''Flowers'' adaptation is like turning Herman Melville's ''Literature/MobyDick'' into a movie about a man who's very determined to catch a flounder.
* AdaptationalModesty: In the book
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* AdaptationalConsent: In the book it's rape, or QuestionableConsent at best. In the movie, it's 100% consensual. There are a few reasons for this. In the book, Cathy and Chris's growing {{UST}} is a subplot, sure, but it's not the ''core'' of the story. Now ''Flowers'' is famous specifically ''for the incest''--that's what views are watching for. Lifetime was planning on doing all 4 books, and Chris and Cathy as a couple is central to the series as a whole. Without Cathy as a narrator, it would be very difficult to convey the nuance of that scene on screen even if they wanted to. So while it's a significant change, it's an understandable one.
* AdaptationExplanationExtrication: It removes the mention that [[spoiler: Malcolm Foxworth changed his will to say that Corrine would be disinherited if it was ever proven that she had children with Chris Sr]]. Thus it removes the most obvious motive for [[spoiler: poisoning the children, making it look like she simply just [[AdaptationalVillainy didn't care about them]] anymore]].
* AdaptationalModesty: In the book Chris walks in on Cathy topless admiring her new breasts--and begins to admire them right along with her. The movie changes this so Chris only accidentally sees Cathy in her underwear. An EnforcedTrope, as Kiernan Shipka was 13 during the filming.
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Chris still has visible abs even after being locked in the attic for over two years. While abs do usually form when a person doesn't eat a lot of food, the rest of his physique wouldn't look that toned if he was being malnourished--no matter what his exercise routine is. EnforcedTrope, as asking a young actor to become malnourished is unethical.
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* WigDressAccent: Chris' disguise when he sneaks out to explore. Cathy compares him to Creator/GrouchoMarx.
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* AdaptationExplanationExtrication: The 2014 TV movie removes the mention that [[spoiler: Malcolm Foxworth changed his will to say that Corrine would be disinherited if it was ever proven that she had children with Chris Sr]]. Thus it removes the most obvious motive for [[spoiler: poisoning the children, making it look like she simply just [[AdaptationalVillainy didn't care about them]] anymore]].
* AdaptationalModesty: In the book Chris walks in on Cathy topless admiring her new breasts--and begins to admire them right along with her.
** In the feature film, this scene becomes Chris talking to Cathy while she's in the bath. (Note, there is an early scene where Chris talks to Cathy in the bath, so the filmed version combines the two).
** The TV film changes this yet again so that Chris only accidentally sees Cathy in her underwear. [[spoiler: Additionally, the TV version includes the BrotherSisterIncest from the novel, but changes it from the book's outright rape to consensual sex.]]
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: In the TV film Chris still has visible abs even after being locked in the attic for over two years. While abs do usually form when a person doesn't eat a lot of food, the rest of his physique wouldn't look that toned if he was being malnourished--no matter what his exercise routine is. EnforcedTrope, as asking a young actor to become malnourished is unethical.
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* AdaptationExplanationExtrication: The 2014 TV movie removes the mention that [[spoiler: Malcolm Foxworth changed his will to say that Corrine would be disinherited if it was ever proven that she had children with Chris Sr]]. Thus it removes the most obvious motive for [[spoiler: poisoning the children, making it look like she simply just [[AdaptationalVillainy didn't care about them]] anymore]].
* AdaptationalModesty: In the book Chris walks in on Cathy topless admiring her new breasts--and begins to admire them right along with her.
** In the feature film, this scene becomes Chris talking to Cathy while she's in the bath. (Note, there is an early scene where Chris talks to Cathy in the bath, so the filmed version combines the two).
** The TV film changes this yet again so that Chris only accidentally sees Cathy in her underwear. [[spoiler: Additionally, the TV version includes the BrotherSisterIncest from the novel, but changes it from the book's outright rape to consensual sex.]]
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: In the TV film Chris still has visible abs even after being locked in the attic for over two years. While abs do usually form when a person doesn't eat a lot of food, the rest of his physique wouldn't look that toned if he was being malnourished--no matter what his exercise routine is. EnforcedTrope, as asking a young actor to become malnourished is unethical.
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* WigDressAccent: Chris' disguise when he sneaks out to explore. Cathy compares him to Creator/GrouchoMarx.
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* AdaptationExplanationExtrication: The 2014 TV movie removes the mention that [[spoiler: Malcolm Foxworth changed his will to say that Corrine would be disinherited if it was ever proven that she had children with Chris Sr]]. Thus it removes the most obvious motive for [[spoiler: poisoning the children, making it look like she simply just [[AdaptationalVillainy didn't care about them]] anymore]].
* AdaptationalModesty: In the book Chris walks in on Cathy topless admiring her new breasts--and begins to admire them right along with her.
** In the feature film, this scene becomes Chris talking to Cathy while she's in the bath. (Note, there is an early scene where Chris talks to Cathy in the bath, so the filmed version combines the two).
** The TV film changes this yet again so that Chris only accidentally sees Cathy in her underwear. [[spoiler: Additionally, the TV version includes the BrotherSisterIncest from the novel, but changes it from the book's outright rape to consensual sex.]]
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: In the TV film Chris still has visible abs even after being locked in the attic for over two years. While abs do usually form when a person doesn't eat a lot of food, the rest of his physique wouldn't look that toned if he was being malnourished--no matter what his exercise routine is. EnforcedTrope, as asking a young actor to become malnourished is unethical.Creator/GrouchoMarx.
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* AdaptationExplanationExtrication: The 2014 TV movie removes the mention that [[spoiler: Malcolm Foxworth changed his will to say that Corrine would be disinherited if it was ever proven that she had children with Chris Sr]]. Thus it removes the most obvious motive for [[spoiler: poisoning the children, making it look like she simply just [[AdaptationalVillainy didn't care about them]] anymore]].
* AdaptationalModesty: In the book Chris walks in on Cathy topless admiring her new breasts--and begins to admire them right along with her.
** In the feature film, this scene becomes Chris talking to Cathy while she's in the bath. (Note, there is an early scene where Chris talks to Cathy in the bath, so the filmed version combines the two).
** The TV film changes this yet again so that Chris only accidentally sees Cathy in her underwear. [[spoiler: Additionally, the TV version includes the BrotherSisterIncest from the novel, but changes it from the book's outright rape to consensual sex.]]
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: In the TV film Chris still has visible abs even after being locked in the attic for over two years. While abs do usually form when a person doesn't eat a lot of food, the rest of his physique wouldn't look that toned if he was being malnourished--no matter what his exercise routine is. EnforcedTrope, as asking a young actor to become malnourished is unethical.
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-->'''Corrine''': Both my brothers were musicians. The pity of it was my father had no patience for the arts, or the type of men who were artists--not only those who were musicians, but painters, poets, and so forth. He thought them weak and effeminate. He forced this older brother to work in a bank he owned, not caring if his son detested the job that didn't suit him at all.
-->'''Corrine''': Both my brothers were musicians. The pity of it was my father had no patience for the arts, or the type of men who were artists--not only those who were musicians, but painters, poets, and so forth. He thought them weak and effeminate. He forced this older brother to work in a bank he owned, not caring if his son detested the job that didn't suit him at all.
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* InTheBlood: The Grandmother believes incest runs in the Dollanganger family... [[spoiler: which it kind of does]].
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* IncestSubtext: The ''textual'' incest only the tip of the iceberg. Basically every parent-child relationship the story takes a look at has some [[ParentalIncest undertones (or overtones)]].
