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Misuse- No Animals Were Harmed is about the disclaimer and its parodies
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* NoAnimalsWereHarmed: Subverted. [[spoiler:Dolores suffers a mental breakdown and poisons several tanks of tropical fish in a misguided act of revenge.]]
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* BigEater: Dolores binges whenever something upsets her.
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* BigEater: Dolores's reaction to every emotional crisis, positive or negative, is to binge-eat. This also covers PostStressOvereating and EatingSolvesEverything (in fact, it takes seven years with a psychologist for Dolores binges whenever something upsets her.to figure out that Eating Does ''Not'' Solve Everything).
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* WhatTheHellHero: The book does not shy away from the fact that its protagonist treats people terribly and that she does a lot of questionable things. [[spoiler:The MoralEventHorizon for many readers is the scene in which Dolores poisons several tanks of tropical fish in an act of misdirected revenge.]]
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* WhatTheHellHero: The book does not shy away from the fact that its protagonist treats people terribly and that she does a lot of questionable things. [[spoiler:The MoralEventHorizon for many readers is the scene in which Dolores poisons several tanks of things, [[spoiler:including killing Dottie's tropical fish in an act of misdirected revenge.revenge, and rejecting gestures of goodwill from people in her life who reach out to her.]]
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* OneSceneWonder: Larry, Ruth, and Tia stay with Dolores for a weekend--long enough for Dolores to become deeply attached to them. They are never heard from again, although twenty years later, Dolores gets a fleeting glimpse of them in a documentary about UsefulNotes/{{Woodstock}}.
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* SuicideBySea: Dolores embarks on an epic 12 hour cab drive to Cape Cod in order to drown herself in the ocean.
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* SuicideBySea: Dolores embarks on an epic 12 12- hour cab drive ride to Cape Cod in order to drown herself in the ocean.
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** [[spoiler:When she breaks down and attempts suicide, she embarks on an epic cab drive to the coast in order to [[SuicideBySea drown herself in the ocean.]]
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** [[spoiler:When she breaks down and attempts suicide, she embarks on an epic cab drive to the coast in order to [[SuicideBySea drown herself in the ocean.]]]]]]
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* SuicideBySea: Dolores embarks on an epic 12 hour cab drive to Cape Cod in order to drown herself in the ocean.
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** [[spoiler:When she breaks down and attempts suicide, she embarks on an epic cab drive to the coast in order to drown herself in the ocean.]]
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** [[spoiler:When she breaks down and attempts suicide, she embarks on an epic cab drive to the coast in order to [[SuicideBySea drown herself in the ocean.]]
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* AnimalMetaphor: Whales appear literally and metaphorically throughout the book. At first it's hurled as an insult at Dolores's size. Later on, she comes to identify whales with power, freedom, and nurturing.
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* AnimalMetaphor: AnimalMetaphor:
** Whales appear literally and metaphorically throughout the book. At first it's hurled as an insult at Dolores's size. Later on, she comes to identify whales with power, freedom, andnurturing.nurturing.
** To a lesser extent, dogs are used to evoke male misogyny and violence [[spoiler:after Dolores is raped near a dog pound and comes to associate the violent barking of the dogs with the assault.]]
** Whales appear literally and metaphorically throughout the book. At first it's hurled as an insult at Dolores's size. Later on, she comes to identify whales with power, freedom, and
** To a lesser extent, dogs are used to evoke male misogyny and violence [[spoiler:after Dolores is raped near a dog pound and comes to associate the violent barking of the dogs with the assault.]]
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* TheSixties: Most of Dolores' adolescence. We get a glimpse at Woodstock, the moon landing, Vietnam, and the growing hippie movement through her eyes.
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* TheSixties: Most of Dolores' adolescence. We get a glimpse at Woodstock, UsefulNotes/{{Woodstock}}, the moon landing, Vietnam, UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar, and the growing hippie movement counterculture through her eyes.
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* TheEighties: The decade in which the book ends. Dolores befriends a gay couple and experiences firsthand the devastation of HIV/AIDS.
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* TheEighties: The decade in which the book ends. Dolores befriends a gay couple and experiences firsthand the devastation of HIV/AIDS.HIV/AIDS while dealing with her own mid-life crisis.
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* AnimalMetaphor: Whales appear literally and metaphorically throughout the book. At first it's hurled as an insult at Dolores's size. Later on, she comes to identify whales with power, freedom, and nurturing.
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* InternalReveal: We the reader already know everything about Dolores's past. It's ''Dante'' who gets the reveal dumped on him unexpectedly when Dolores blurts out everything she's been keeping from him.
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* TheReveal: Subverted. We the reader already know everything about Dolores. It's ''Dante'' who gets the reveal dumped on him unexpectedly when Dolores blurts out everything she's been keeping from him.
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* BuryYourGays: Mr. Pucci and his long-time partner Gary. May be TruthInTelevision, as this is during the height of the AIDS crisis in the 1980s.
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* BuryYourGays: Mr.[[spoiler:Mr. Pucci and his long-time partner Gary. ]] May be TruthInTelevision, as this is during the height of the AIDS crisis in the 1980s.
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* FoodPorn: Possibly subverted, as Dolores never seems to ''enjoy'' the food she's binging on, and the descriptions of food aren't exactly tantalizing. One scene describes her as hacking apart a whole roast beef that grows more "purply-raw" the deeper she cuts, while swallowing whole the "cool, rubbery hunks" she isn't able to chew through. Another shows her cramming her mouth full of potato chips and soda and crunching them to a "sweet salty pulp."
* FormerlyFat: Dolores eventually loses weight when she resolves some of the issues that drove her to binge. One of the first signs that she is losing control of her life is when she realizes she's gaining again. Dolores even refers to women she sees on Richard Simmons as "former fatties."
* FormerlyFat: Dolores eventually loses weight when she resolves some of the issues that drove her to binge. One of the first signs that she is losing control of her life is when she realizes she's gaining again. Dolores even refers to women she sees on Richard Simmons as "former fatties."
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* FoodPorn: Possibly subverted, as while there's plenty of food presented, Dolores never seems to ''enjoy'' the food whatever she's binging on, and the descriptions of food aren't exactly tantalizing. One scene describes her as hacking apart a whole roast beef that grows more "purply-raw" the deeper she cuts, while swallowing whole the "cool, rubbery hunks" she isn't able to chew through. Another shows her cramming her mouth full of potato chips and soda and crunching them to a "sweet salty pulp."
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* FormerlyFat: Dolores eventually loses weight when she resolves some of the issues thatdrove drive her to binge. One of the first signs that she is losing control of her life is when she realizes she's gaining again. Dolores even refers to women she sees on Richard Simmons as "former fatties."
* FormerlyFat: Dolores eventually loses weight when she resolves some of the issues that
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* [[HisOwnWorstEnemy Her Own Worst Enemy]]: While a lot of bad things happen to her through no fault of her own, Dolores's own choices are the cause of a lot of her misery. She can be a ''terrible'' person, going from merely cruel and thoughtless to outright criminal. The book's saving grace is that it thoroughly explores the consequences of her behavior--she definitely has to [[EarnYourHappyEnding earn her happy ending]] by making a conscious decision to be a better person.
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* [[HisOwnWorstEnemy Her Own Worst Enemy]]: While a lot of bad things happen to her through no fault of her own, Dolores's own choices are the cause of a lot of her misery. She can be a ''terrible'' person, going from merely cruel and thoughtless to outright criminal. The book's saving grace is that it thoroughly explores the consequences of her behavior--she definitely has to must [[EarnYourHappyEnding earn her happy ending]] by making a conscious decision to be a better person.
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* TragicAIDSStory: Again, handled fairly realistically: [[spoiler:Mr. Pucci and his partner Gary both die of AIDS]], but the focus is more on [[spoiler:Mr. Pucci's grief]], his uncertainty as he waits to see if he will develop the virus, and early 1980s misunderstanding and prejudice toward AIDS/HIV.
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* BuryYourGays: Mr. Pucci and his boyfriend Gary. May be TruthInTelevision, as this is during the height of the AIDS crisis in the 1980s.
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* BuryYourGays: Mr. Pucci and his boyfriend long-time partner Gary. May be TruthInTelevision, as this is during the height of the AIDS crisis in the 1980s.
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* HotForTeacher:
** Dante's a high school teacher with a number of very young female admirers.
** Dolores admits that part of the reason she began to participate in therapy was because her doctor, a mentor figure, was such a hottie.
** Dante's a high school teacher with a number of very young female admirers.
** Dolores admits that part of the reason she began to participate in therapy was because her doctor, a mentor figure, was such a hottie.
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* TeacherStudentRomance: [[spoiler:Dolores's husband Dante sleeps around with his (high-school-age) students.]]
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* TeacherStudentRomance: TeacherStudentRomance:
** [[spoiler:Dolores's husband Dante sleeps around with his (high-school-age) students.]]]]
** Dante's a high school teacher with a number of very young female admirers.
** Dolores admits that part of the reason she began to participate in therapy was because her doctor, a mentor figure, was such a hottie.
** [[spoiler:Dolores's husband Dante sleeps around with his (high-school-age) students.
** Dante's a high school teacher with a number of very young female admirers.
** Dolores admits that part of the reason she began to participate in therapy was because her doctor, a mentor figure, was such a hottie.
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* PostStressOvereating: Dolores is prone to ''massive'' binge-eating in the wake of stressful events. After deliberately skipping out on her high school graduation, she buys nearly $80 (in 1967 dollars![[note]]$608 adjusted for inflation[[/note]]) of junk food and consumes all of it in a wild binge.
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* PostStressOvereating: Dolores is prone to ''massive'' binge-eating in the wake of stressful events. After deliberately skipping out on her high school graduation, she buys nearly $80 (in 1967 dollars![[note]]$608 1969 dollars![[note]]$565 adjusted for inflation[[/note]]) of junk food and consumes all of it in a wild binge.
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* FatGirl: The entire novel deals Dolores's struggles with her weight and how she is defined by her body. Even when she loses weight, she refers to the angry, irrational, greedy side of her personality as "the fat girl" to distinguish it from the person she's trying to become. In truth, it's all just her.
* TeacherStudentRomance: [[spoiler:Dolores's husband Dante sleeps around with his (high-school-age) students.]]
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* WhatTheHellHero: The book does not shy away from the fact that its protagonist treats people terribly and that she does a lot of questionable things. [[spoiler:The MoralEventHorizon for many readers is the scene in which Dolores poisons several tanks of tropical fish in an act of misdirected revenge.]]
* YourCheatingHeart: The book begins with Dolores's father having an affair with his employer, which ends in splitting up the family. [[spoiler:Dolores's husband Dante sleeps around with his (high-school-age) students.]] It's also revealed late in the game that Dolores's mother was sleeping with the married upstairs tenant [[spoiler:who later raped Dolores.]]
* YourCheatingHeart: The book begins with Dolores's father having an affair with his employer, which ends in splitting up the family. [[spoiler:Dolores's husband Dante sleeps around with his (high-school-age) students.]] It's also revealed late in the game that Dolores's mother was sleeping with the married upstairs tenant [[spoiler:who later raped Dolores.]]
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* WeightWoe: The entire novel deals Dolores's struggles with her weight and how she is defined by her body. Even when she loses weight, she refers to the angry, irrational, greedy side of her personality as "the fat girl" to distinguish it from the person she's trying to become. In truth, it's all just her.
* WhatTheHellHero: The book does not shy away from the fact that its protagonist treats people terribly and that she does a lot of questionable things. [[spoiler:The MoralEventHorizon for many readers is the scene in which Dolores poisons several tanks of tropical fish in an act of misdirected revenge.]]
* YourCheatingHeart: The book begins with Dolores's father having an affair with his employer, which ends in splitting up the family. [[spoiler:Dolores's husband Dante sleeps around with his (high-school-age) students.]] It's also revealed late in the game that Dolores's mother was sleeping with the married upstairs tenant [[spoiler:who later raped Dolores.]]
* WhatTheHellHero: The book does not shy away from the fact that its protagonist treats people terribly and that she does a lot of questionable things. [[spoiler:The MoralEventHorizon for many readers is the scene in which Dolores poisons several tanks of tropical fish in an act of misdirected revenge.
* YourCheatingHeart: The book begins with Dolores's father having an affair with his employer, which ends in splitting up the family. [[spoiler:Dolores's husband Dante sleeps around with his (high-school-age) students.]] It's also revealed late in the game that Dolores's mother was sleeping with the married upstairs tenant [[spoiler:who later raped Dolores.
