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* GreaterScopeVillain: Carol becomes involved with a radical revolutionary group led by a man named Raymond Fiegler, who teaches her a form of invisibility called being ''dim''; readers familiar with ''Literature/TheStand'' and ''Literature/TheEyesOfTheDragon'' will know that Fiegler is Randall Flagg, the dark man.
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* GreaterScopeVillain: Carol becomes involved with a radical revolutionary group led by a man named Raymond Fiegler, who teaches her a form of invisibility called being ''dim''; readers familiar with ''Literature/TheStand'' and ''Literature/TheEyesOfTheDragon'' will know that Fiegler is Randall Flagg, the dark man. [[spoiler: The Crimson King serves as this for the first novella, ‘Low Men in Yellow Coats’]].
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* YouRemindMeOfX: Bobby gets told by a waitress how much he reminds her of his long-dead and barely remembered father. Sure enough, at one point when she's totally petrified she [[WrongNameOutburst calls Bobby by his father's name]].
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* YouRemindMeOfX: Bobby gets told by a waitress how much he reminds her of his long-dead and barely remembered father. Sure enough, at one point when she's totally petrified she [[WrongNameOutburst calls Bobby by his father's name]].
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* TheGhost: Sully, Blind Willie, and Ronnie Malenfant all serve alongside a black solider named Slocum in Vietnam who ends up stopping Malenfant and his friends from massacring a village. He never appears in person, and commits suicide years after the war ends, but has a profound effect on both Sully and Willie.
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* TheGhost: Sully, Blind Willie, and Ronnie Malenfant all serve alongside a black solider soldier named Slocum in Vietnam who ends up stopping Malenfant and his friends from massacring a village. He never appears in person, and commits suicide years after the war ends, but has a profound effect on both Sully and Willie.
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''Low Men in Yellow Coats'': In 1960, young Bobby Garfield befriends an older man named Ted Brautigan living in his boarding house. Bobby soon discovers that Ted possesses psychic abilities and is being pursued by the sinister 'Low Men in Yellow Coats'.
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''Low Men in Yellow Coats'': In 1960, young Bobby Garfield befriends an older man named Ted Brautigan living in his boarding house. Bobby soon discovers that Ted possesses psychic abilities and is being pursued by the sinister 'Low Men in Yellow Coats'.
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* MatureWorkChildProtagonists: The opening novella "Low Men In Yellow Coats" explores a 10-year-old boy named Bobby spending the summer of 1960 with his best friend, falling for a girl, and being mentored by a mysterious elderly man who moves into the room above his home. It could almost be a YA novel until rape, heartbreak, and a clan of sinister humanoid creatures enter the story.
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* BittersweetEnding: Most of the stories, fitting in with the theme of loss in the 60's:
** [[spoiler:Ted is taken away by the Low Men, and Bobby never sees him again. He gets involved in crime and alcohol as a teenager, but begins mending his ways when he receives an envelope of rose petals and realizes Ted has escaped again]].
** [[spoiler:Pete manages to get out of the Hearts game and save his college career, but many of his dorm mates end up getting sent to Vietnam. Carol also disappears into a life of radicalism, and he wonders forever after what happened to her]].
** [[spoiler:Sully-John dies of a heart attack in traffic, but is comforted by a vision of the old mamasan and lets go of life peacefully]].
** [[spoiler:Bobby mourns Sully and finds Harwich almost unrecognizable. But he's reunited with Carol after many years, and they are both comforted by a final note from Ted]].
** [[spoiler:Ted is taken away by the Low Men, and Bobby never sees him again. He gets involved in crime and alcohol as a teenager, but begins mending his ways when he receives an envelope of rose petals and realizes Ted has escaped again]].
** [[spoiler:Pete manages to get out of the Hearts game and save his college career, but many of his dorm mates end up getting sent to Vietnam. Carol also disappears into a life of radicalism, and he wonders forever after what happened to her]].
** [[spoiler:Sully-John dies of a heart attack in traffic, but is comforted by a vision of the old mamasan and lets go of life peacefully]].
** [[spoiler:Bobby mourns Sully and finds Harwich almost unrecognizable. But he's reunited with Carol after many years, and they are both comforted by a final note from Ted]].
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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Pete and Carol bond over being fans of ''Series/{{The Prisoner 1967}}'', despite the story being set a year before the series aired. King acknowledges this in the afterward, saying the show fit so much better than anything else from the period he could think of that he went ahead with it anyway.
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* ObligatoryWarCrimeScene: In "Why We're in Vietnam", Sully is haunted by a massacre committed by his battalion, in particular the death of an old "mama-san" [[spoiler: who appears to him at the moment of his death]].
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* WarCrimeSubvertsHeroism: In "Why We're in Vietnam", Sully is haunted by a massacre committed by his battalion, in particular the death of an old "mama-san" [[spoiler: who appears to him at the moment of his death]].
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* MovingAwayEnding: "Low Men In Yellow Coats" has a VERY BittersweetEnding when Bobby moves away from Harwich with his mother, leaving Carol behind after finally telling her he loves her. She keeps in touch with him for a while through letters but they lose contact as he becomes a juvenile delinquent.
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* NiceGuy: Nate Hoppenstad in "Hearts in Atlantis". He doesn't play Hearts and concentrates on his studies, he almost never swears and he has a girlfriend at home whom he eventually marries. He also starts to oppose the war in Vietnam before others.
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* NiceGuy: Nate Hoppenstad in "Hearts in Atlantis".Atlantis"; Skip says Nate is "an alien, beamed down from the planet Good Boy". He doesn't play Hearts and concentrates on his studies, he almost never swears and he has a girlfriend at home whom he eventually marries. He also starts to oppose the war in Vietnam before others.
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* FirstKiss: Bobby and Carol have a particularly tender one at the top of a Ferris wheel.
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* FirstKiss: Bobby and Carol have a particularly tender one at the top of a Ferris wheel. The narration notes "It was the kiss by which all the others of his life would be judged and found wanting."
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* BigBeautifulWoman: Alanna Files, who runs the pool hall Bobby's dad used to hang out at. The narration notes that she's big enough to be a circus fat lady, but has lovely shoulders, smooth skin, and makes herself up prettily.
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** When Bobby goes to the pool hall to collect Ted's payout, he tells Len Files [[Series/StormOfTheCentury"Give me what I want and I'll go away."]]
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** When Bobby goes to the pool hall to collect Ted's payout, he tells Len Files [[Series/StormOfTheCentury"Give [[Series/StormOfTheCentury "Give me what I want and I'll go away."]]
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** When Bobby goes to the pool hall to collect Ted's payout, he tells Len Files [[Series/StormOfTheCentury"Give me what I want and I'll go away."]]
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* FirstKiss: Bobby and Carol have a particularly tender one at the top of a Ferris wheel.
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* DontYouDarePityMe: Pete Riley's dorm-mate Stokely Jones lost the use of his legs in a car accident, but refuses help when people try to carry things for him and tears around campus on his crutches as fast as he can. Years later, Pete realizes that Stoke might very well have demanded a room in their dorm (on the third floor) purely out of pride.
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* IHaveManyNames: Willie Shearman, one of Bobby's childhood bullies, goes by several aliases and personas to disguise his day job:
** In his day-to-day life, he's mild-mannered New York businessman Bill Shearman.
** When moving around the city, he becomes a gregarious heating and AC repairman named Willie, who dresses like a washed-up mercenary.
** When begging on a street corner during his blind phase of the day, he is wounded veteran Blind Willie Garfield.
** The story ends with Willie adopting a new identity, Blind Willie Slocum, to deal with his CorruptCop nemesis.
** In his day-to-day life, he's mild-mannered New York businessman Bill Shearman.
** When moving around the city, he becomes a gregarious heating and AC repairman named Willie, who dresses like a washed-up mercenary.
** When begging on a street corner during his blind phase of the day, he is wounded veteran Blind Willie Garfield.
** The story ends with Willie adopting a new identity, Blind Willie Slocum, to deal with his CorruptCop nemesis.
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* LoopholeAbuse: Tired of being harassed by Officer Wheelock and paranoid that Wheelock will arrest him, Willie considers killing him, but can't bring himself to ruin his years of self-inflicted penance... until he remembers his squadmate, Slocum, and realizes he can make a new persona who CAN do the deed. The story ends with Willie wondering what might happen if Blind Willie Slocum were to track Jasper Wheelock home one day...
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** Willie looks at a picture of his family and sees his father smiling "like he'd never pushed his son over in his high chair or hit his wife with a beer bottle."
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* {{Jerkass}}: Ronnie Malenfant in spades. An obnoxious, foul-mouthed, greedy moron who starts the Hearts game that almost causes the entire dorm to flunk out of college. Pretty much nobody likes him, [[spoiler:and he only gets worse after going to Vietnam, where he murders an old woman pretty much for his own amusement]]...
* KarmaHoudini: ...which makes it hard for Sully to stomach when he learns Malenfant has joined Alcoholics Anonymous in his later years, confessed his crimes, and feels much better about himself, and that's all that happens to him.
* KarmaHoudini: ...which makes it hard for Sully to stomach when he learns Malenfant has joined Alcoholics Anonymous in his later years, confessed his crimes, and feels much better about himself, and that's all that happens to him.
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* SanitySlippage: in the title story, college dorm-mates begin cracking under the pressure of studying to keep from being drafted into the Vietnam War. Almost all of them become obsessed with an ongoing Hearts game in the rec room, eventually (and ironically) neglecting their studies and personal lives in favor of playing cards. It culminates with all of them laughing hysterically as they see a disabled student slip in icy rain and almost drown; the event finally snaps Pete and Skip out of their Hearts delirium, and they work hard together to keep from being expelled.
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* GeaterScopeVillain: Carol becomes involved with a radical revolutionary group led by a man named Raymond Fiegler, who teaches her a form of invisibility called being ''dim''; readers familiar with ''Literature/TheStand'' and ''Literature/TheEyesOfTheDragon'' will know that Fiegler is Randall Flagg, the dark man.
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* GeaterScopeVillain: GreaterScopeVillain: Carol becomes involved with a radical revolutionary group led by a man named Raymond Fiegler, who teaches her a form of invisibility called being ''dim''; readers familiar with ''Literature/TheStand'' and ''Literature/TheEyesOfTheDragon'' will know that Fiegler is Randall Flagg, the dark man.
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* GeaterScopeVillain: Carol becomes involved with a radical revolutionary group led by a man named Raymond Fiegler, who teaches her a form of invisibility called being ''dim''; readers familiar with ''Literature/TheStand'' and ''Literature/TheEyesOfTheDragon'' will know that Fiegler is Randall Flagg, the dark man.
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* IAmSpartacus: When the college administration tries to find who made profane anti-war graffiti with a (then new and largely misunderstood) peace sign, ''all'' the students claim they've been putting the symbol on their stuff for months.
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* DyingDream: [[Spoiler:Everything Sully experiences in the traffic jam, where he dies of a heart attack]].
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* DyingDream: [[Spoiler:Everything [[spoiler:Everything Sully experiences in the traffic jam, where he dies of a heart attack]].
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* DyingDream: [[Spoiler:Everything Sully experiences in the traffic jam, where he dies of a heart attack]].
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* CrazyPrepared: Bill Shearman has several different identities to mask his day job, begging on a street corner as Blind Willie. He even has a secret exit in his office and rotates his morning commute to throw off anyone trying to track him.
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* CrazyPrepared: Bill Shearman Sherman has several different identities to mask his day job, begging on a street corner as Blind Willie. He even has a secret exit in his office and rotates his morning commute to throw off anyone trying to track him.
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* CrazyPrepared: Bill Shearman has several different identities to mask his day job, begging on a street corner as Blind Willie. He even has a secret exit in his office and rotates his morning commute to throw off anyone trying to track him.
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* TheGhost: Sully, Blind Willie, and Ronnie Malenfant all serve alongside a black solider named Slocum in Vietnam who ends up stopping Malenfant and his friends from massacring a village. He never appears in person, and commits suicide years after the war ends, but has a profound effect on both Sully and Willie.
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* DirtyCop: Officer Jasper "the Police Smurf" Wheelock takes sadistic pleasure in mocking and harassing Blind Willie when he begs for money on a street corner, doing it because he doesn't believe Willie's blind (and also hypocritically extorting bribes from him at the same time).
