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* CanadaEh: [[spoiler:Barney's father]] talks like this.
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* BlackSheep: To the Stirlings, Valancy would certainly qualify, but Valancy is really more of a WhiteSheep to everyone else.
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''The Blue Castle'', by Creator/LMMontgomery (better known for the ''Literature/AnneOfGreenGables'' and ''Literature/EmilyOfNewMoon'' series), is the story of Valancy Stirling, an apparently dull, mousy, insignificant little OldMaid trapped in small-town Northern Ontario, Canada.
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''The Blue Castle'', by
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* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Valancy's entire life up to where the story begins.
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* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Mousy, drab Valancy's entire life up to where the story begins.
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* ChangelingFantasy
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* TheClan: The Stirlings.
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* DeathOfAChild: Cissy's baby son died in the story.
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* DeathOfAChild: Cissy's baby son died dies in the story.
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* FriendlessBackground: Valancy [[spoiler:and Barney]].
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* FriendlessBackground: Valancy [[spoiler:and Barney]].Barney.]]
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* GossipyHens: The Stirling family.
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* [[spoiler:MistakenForDying: Valancy's doctor, panicked by the news of his son's car accident, mixes up Valancy's letter with one to a dying old woman. She accepts the diagnosis because consulting another doctor would require telling her family (because she can't drive and Dr. Trent is the only one in walking distance) which would result in so much fuss and bother that Valancy's plans for a happy last year would be entirely spoiled.]]
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* [[spoiler:MistakenForDying: Valancy's MistakenForDying: [[spoiler:Valancy's doctor, panicked by the news of his son's car accident, mixes up Valancy's letter with one to a dying old woman. She accepts the diagnosis because consulting another doctor would require telling her family (because she can't drive and Dr. Trent is the only one in walking distance) which would result in so much fuss and bother that Valancy's plans for a happy last year would be entirely spoiled.]]
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* MysteriousPast: Barney
* NatureLover: Barney and Valancy
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* NotWithThemForTheMoney: [[spoiler: Valancy in regards to Barney]]. Her family, not so much.
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* NotWithThemForTheMoney: [[spoiler: Valancy [[spoiler:Valancy in regards to Barney]]. Barney.]] Her family, not so much.
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* ReclusiveArtist: [[invoked]] John Foster.
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* SelfMadeMan: Dr. Redfern
* SheCleansUpNicely: Valancy and Barney
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* YourDaysAreNumbered: Interestingly played with Valancy, who actually finds the prospect much easier to bear than a long, dull life of spinsterdom and social pressure with her family. [[spoiler:When the doctor reveals his mistake, as is traditional for this trope, Valancy is ''not'' happy to live out her life with Barney as one might expect. She's heartbroken, believing that Barney will accuse her of tricking him into marriage. It doesn't even occur to her that Barney might have grown to love her and want to keep her - not until the aforementioned Precision F Strike, at least.]]
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* YourDaysAreNumbered: YourDaysAreNumbered:
** Interestingly played with Valancy, who actually finds the prospect much easier to bear than a long, dull life of spinsterdom and social pressure with her family. [[spoiler:When the doctor reveals his mistake, as is traditional for this trope, Valancy is ''not'' happy to live out her life with Barney as one might expect. She's heartbroken, believing that Barney will accuse her of tricking him into marriage. It doesn't even occur to her that Barney might have grown to love her and want to keep her - not until the aforementionedPrecision F Strike, PrecisionFStrike, at least.]]
** Interestingly played with Valancy, who actually finds the prospect much easier to bear than a long, dull life of spinsterdom and social pressure with her family. [[spoiler:When the doctor reveals his mistake, as is traditional for this trope, Valancy is ''not'' happy to live out her life with Barney as one might expect. She's heartbroken, believing that Barney will accuse her of tricking him into marriage. It doesn't even occur to her that Barney might have grown to love her and want to keep her - not until the aforementioned
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* ChivalrousPervert: Roaring Abel.
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* ChivalrousPervert: Roaring Abel. He comments on Valancy's nice ankles (to the Stirling family, ankles are considered among the unmentionables) and Valancy is pleased by the compliment. More to the point, Valancy never feels frightened of him.
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* HappyPlace: The Blue Castle.
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* HappyPlace: The Blue Castle.Castle of Valancy's dreamland, which she has populated since she was a child with the companions and love she craved.
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* ImpoverishedPatrician: [[spoiler:Barney's first fiancee]]
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* ImpoverishedPatrician: [[spoiler:Barney's Mrs. Frederick Stirling's branch of the family has fallen on hard times, and must live frugally--but the idea of Valancy going "below her station" to be a housekeeper to Roaring Abel is scandalous. Later, [[spoiler:we learn that Barney's first fiancee]]fiancee also came from such a family.]]
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* InHarmonyWithNature: Barney, and eventually Valancy
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* InHarmonyWithNature: Barney, and eventually ValancyValancy. In every Canadian season--yes, even winter--they find cause for delight and meditation out in the woods and wilds.
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* FeminineWomenCanCook: Valancy offers her skills as a housekeeper and cook to Roaring Abel and Cissy; the fact that she's being ''useful'' to someone who needs her does a great deal for her self-esteem. Later on, she delights in making the Blue Castle a cozy little home and cooking for Barney.
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* GoodShepherd: Mr. Towers.
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* GoodShepherd: Mr. Towers.Towers, the kindly Free Methodist minister who officiates Valancy and Barney's wedding and prays for them later.
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** Valancy has hers when she and Barney run out of gas and are stranded in the woods (though it's obvious to the reader well before that).
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* DeathOfAChild: Cissy's baby son died in tne story.
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* DeathOfAChild: Cissy's baby son died in tne the story.
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One of only two novels intended specifically for an adult audience that Montgomery ever wrote (the other is ''Literature/ATangledWeb'') and consequently sadly underrated.
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One of only two novels intended specifically for an adult audience that Montgomery ever wrote (the other is ''Literature/ATangledWeb'') ''Literature/ATangledWeb1931'') and consequently sadly underrated.
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* DeathOfAChild: Cissy's baby son died in tne story.
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* InfantImmortality: Sadly averted with the death of Cissy's baby son.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: Olive's letter to her fiancé in the next-to-last chapter complains about all the attention Valancy gets from the family now. She also points out that [[spoiler:the Stirlings abruptly switched to fawning on her because she married money, and Valancy knows it]].
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* HypocriticalHumor: After the revelation that [[spoiler:Barney is the son of a multimillionaire]], Uncle Benjamin chides the other Stirlings for being so quick to judge him from baseless rumors when he was right there judging with the rest of them.
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* AlphaBitch: Valancy's cousin Olive, in both the family and at school when she Valancy were children.
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* AlphaBitch: Valancy's cousin Olive, in both the family and at school when she and Valancy were children.children. Valancy remembers that the one time she had some beautiful heirloom dress buttons Olive didn't, Olive immediately got the adults to take them from her.
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* AnxietyDreams: After she learns that she [[spoiler:tricked Barney into marrying her.]]
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* AnxietyDreams: After she learns that she [[spoiler:tricked [[spoiler:"tricked" Barney into marrying her.]]
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* DamselInDistress: Valancy foolishly goes to a dance where some drunken men harrass her. Fortunately, Barney arrives in time.
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* DamselInDistress: Valancy foolishly goes to a dance where some drunken men harrass harass her. Fortunately, Barney arrives in time.
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* BadassGrandpa: Roaring Abel. At one point he throws one of Valancy's pompous relatives into an asparagus bed for insulting him.
** Valancy's unconventional grandfather, Amos Wansbarra, who shocked the clan by giving her her unusual name. Valancy tells her relatives that he was practically the only decent person she had ever known.
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* {{Never Live It Down}}: An InUniverse example. The Stirlings never let Valancy forget that she stole some raspberry jam when she was eight and lost one of her aunt's silver teaspoons.
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* OnceDoneNeverForgotten: The Stirlings never let Valancy forget that she stole some raspberry jam when she was eight and lost one of her aunt's silver teaspoons.
