History Literature / SharpObjects

* InTheBlood: After [[spoiler:Adora is arrested and Camille takes custody of her sister]], she worries that she has it in her to do the same things her mother did. Played straight between [[spoiler:Camille and

* AlphaBitch: Amma and her GirlPosse practically rule the town. Camille makes some comments that imply she was also this in her youth.

* HenpeckedHusband: Brad Brucker; in Camille's words, "He was the type of husband to live where Katie said, impregnate Katie when she asked, buy Katie the Pottery Barn sofa she wanted, and otherwise shut up."

* InTheBlood: After [[spoiler:Adora is arrested and Camille takes custody of her sister]], she worries that she has it in her to do the same things her mother did.

* ItsAllAboutMe: Adora only really cares about herself and her public appearance. [[spoiler:As a result of her mental instability, she cared more about her outfits and attention she was receiving than she cared about Marian, who she poisoned to death.]]

* ParentalSubstitute: It's made clear in both the book and TV series that Jackie behaved more like a mother to Camille than Adora ever did.

* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: Amma drinks, takes drugs and has sex, and that's just for starters. It's also alleged that she pimps her friends out to older boys, she seems to enjoy watching animals in pain, and she [[spoiler:murders three girls who she sees as taking attention away from her mother (and later, her sister), removing their teeth as souvenirs to put in her doll's house.]] She's ''thirteen''.

* AbusiveParents: Adora flat-out admits that she doesn't love Camille. More seriously, it's also revealed that she [[spoiler:poisons her children in order to make them sick and gain sympathy and attention, which ultimately lead to Marian's death.]]

* AdaptationalNameChange: Meredith Wheeler is inexplicably renamed Ashley in the TV series.
* AdaptationalHeroism: Some of Amma's crueller moments, such as slapping her friend in the face, smashing her dollhouse furniture for being wrong, ripping apart fireflies, are cut out of the TV adaptation.

* DidNotGetTheGirl: [[spoiler:After he sees her scars, Camille never sees Richard again, which she figured would happen.]]

* HenpeckedHusband: Brad Brucker, who, in Camille's words, "He was the type of husband to live where Katie said, impregnate Katie when she asked, buy Katie the Pottery Barn sofa she wanted, and otherwise shut up."

The novel has been adapted into a miniseries by Creator/{{HBO}}, with Creator/AmyAdams starring as Camille. The first episode aired on July 8, 2018.

'''''Sharp Objects''''' is the debut novel by Creator/GillianFlynn. The plot revolves around Camille Preaker, a journalist sent to investigate a potential serial killer in her hometown after the disappearance of two little girls. As she is forced to reconnect with her estranged mother and precocious half-sister, Camille comes to suspect that her family is somehow involved with the case.

The novel has been adapted into a miniseries by HBO, with Creator/AmyAdams starring as Camille. The first episode aired on July 8, 2018.

** Her treatment of Amma isn't much better [[spoiler:as Amma learnt early on she had to behave a certain way to please Adora and became so insanely jealous that Adora was spending time with Ann and Natalie that she murdered them.]]

* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Some of Amma's crueller moments, such as slapping her friend in the face, smashing her dollhouse furniture for being wrong, ripping apart fireflies, are cut out of the TV adaptation.

** Camille used to have this for Marian- she still isn't over her death even well into adulthood.

* ChekhovsGun: Ann and Natalie's missing teeth, the scar on Meredith's thumb and missing earlobe, Amma's dollhouse…
* CreepyChild

* RapeAsBackstory: [[spoiler:Camille was gang raped at a party in her early teens]]

The novel is being adapted into a miniseries by HBO, with Creator/AmyAdams starring as Camille. The first episode is set to premier on July 8, 2018.

* RapeAsBackstory: [[spoiler:Camille was gang raped at a party in her early teens.]]

* RapeAsBackstory: Camille was gangraped by older high schoolers in her early teens.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Adora is finally punished for killing Marian and the murderer of Ann and Natalie is caught, but Amma will get out of jail when she turns eighteen and Camille is left with ''severe'' emotional and mental scars from uncovering the truth.]]

* Tomboy: Both Ann Nash and Natalie Keene were noted to have wild streaks and intense tempers.

* IronicName: Amma's full first name, Amity, means "friendship", and considering Amma's as vicious bully and even considered [[spoiler:killing Jodes]]...

* ChekhovsGun: Ann and Natalie's missing teeth, the scar on Meredith's thumb and missing earlobe, Amma's dollhouse...

* ChekovsGun: Ann and Natalie's missing teeth, the scar on Meredith's thumb and missing earlobe, Amma's dollhouse...

* AbusiveParents: Adora flat-out admits that she doesn't love Camille. More seriously, it's also revealed that she [[spoiler: poisons her children in order to make them sick and gain sympathy and attention, which ultimately lead to Marian's death.]]
** Her treatment of Amma isn't much better [[spoiler: as Amma learnt early on she had to behave a certain way to please Adora and became so insanely jealous that Adora was spending time with Ann and Natalie that she murders them.]]

* BigBrotherInstinct: John Keen is still mourning Natalie, which everyone in Wind Gap finds suspicious.
** Camille used to have this for Marion- she still isn't over her death even well into adulthood.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Adora is finally punished for killing Marion and the murderer of Ann and Natalie is caught, but Amma will get out of jail when she reaches eighteen and Camille is left with ''severe'' emotional and mental scars from uncovering the truth.]]

* CreepySouvenir: The two dead girls are found with their teeth removed. [[spoiler: It's later revealed that Amma took them in order to replicate the ivory floor of her mother's bedroom in her doll's house.]]
* DysfunctionJunction: The Preaker women. Camille is a cutter who struggles with depression; Amma is barely into her teens and already drinks, takes drugs and is sexually promiscuous, as well as a vicious bully and [[spoiler: a murderer]]; and Adora has [[spoiler: Munchausen's by proxy and deliberately makes Amma sick even after this killed her second daughter.]]

* GreenEyedMonster: Why [[spoiler: Ann and Natalie were murdered- Amma couldn't stand having to share Adora with anyone else.]]

** Alan, too. Even after [[spoiler: Camilla is found guilty for killing Marian, he still writes and visits her every day while she's in prison.]]
* InTheBlood: After [[spoiler: Adora is arrested and Camille takes custody of her sister]], she worries that she has it in her to do the same things her mother did.
* IronicName: Amma's full first name, Amity, means "friendship", and considering Amma's as vicious bully and even considered [[spoiler: killing Jodes]]...
* LikeASonToMe: [[spoiler: Curry and his wife, Eileen, end up taking in Camille to look after her at the novel's end.]]
* MunchausenSyndrome: [[spoiler: Adora has the by proxy variety, poisoning her daughters in order to make them more docile and gain attention for herself.]]

* Tomboy: Both Ann Nash and Natalie Keen were noted to have wild streaks and intense tempers.
* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: Marian. [[spoiler: She might have lived had Adora not been her mother.]]

* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: Amma drinks, takes drugs and has sex, and that's just for starters. It's also alleged that she pimps her friends out to older boys, she seems to enjoy watching animals in pain, and she [[spoiler: murders three girls who she sees as taking attention away from her mother (and later, her sister), removing their teeth as souvenirs to put in her doll's house.]] She's ''thirteen''.