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* RomanticFalseLead: Both Theo and Pippa become involved with "safe" romantic partners, but Theo is in love with Pippa and the story suggests he may also have feelings for Boris. [[spoiler:Theo's fiance is also in love with someone else. Whether they'll all choose a safe life of comfort or a passionate and risky life is left unresolved]].
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* RomanticFalseLead: Both Theo and Pippa become involved with "safe" romantic partners, but Theo is in love with Pippa and the story suggests he may also have feelings for Boris. [[spoiler:Theo's fiance fiancée is also in love with someone else. Whether they'll all choose a safe life of comfort or a passionate and risky life is left unresolved]].
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* StalkerWithACrush: Theo is this for Pippa, going as far as to keep a few strands of her hair that he found in the shower. He yearns to know everything about her life, and sees his relationship with Pippa in a way that is divorced with reality. The book lampshades this, and so does Theo in his rare moments of lucidity regarding his behavior.
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* StalkerWithACrush: Theo is this for Pippa, going as far as to keep a few strands of her hair that he found in the shower. He yearns to know everything about her life, and sees his relationship with Pippa in a way that is divorced with reality. The book lampshades this, and so does Theo in his rare moments of lucidity regarding his behavior.behaviour.
* StepfordSmiler: Kitsey, of the depressed variety. Behind the appealing, enthusiastic facade is a deeply unhappy young woman who blames herself for [[spoiler: the deaths of her father and brother.]]
* StepfordSmiler: Kitsey, of the depressed variety. Behind the appealing, enthusiastic facade is a deeply unhappy young woman who blames herself for [[spoiler: the deaths of her father and brother.]]
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* HeroesPreferRedheads: Theo has a lifelong crush on Pippa. He frequently mentions her red hair.
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* CoolLoser: Boris is not popular in school - for quite a while Theo is his only real friend - but is noted as having a lot of positive traits and being very interesting to talk to.
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* TurnOutLikeHisFather: Theo comes to closely resemble his hated crook of a father in looks and behaviour, but he ends the story a fundamentally better man.
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** Inverted with Boris: as a Ukrainian, his name should technically be transliterated "Borys," but he explains that he goes with the Russian transliteration with an I, as being more familiar in the USA.
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* AlternateHistory: UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror includes the terrorist bombing of the museum but doesn't include the 9/11 attacks.
* AmbiguouslyBi: Theo and Boris experiment with bisexuality as teens. Theo feels awkward about it afterwards, but Boris is unfazed. This trope is a theme in Tartt's works.
* AmbiguouslyBi: Theo and Boris experiment with bisexuality as teens. Theo feels awkward about it afterwards, but Boris is unfazed. This trope is a theme in Tartt's works.
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* AlternateHistory: UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror includes the terrorist bombing of the museum but doesn't include the 9/11 attacks. \n 9/11 still happens in universe though; Theo mentions it when discussing the penalties for art theft.
* AmbiguouslyBi: As per usual in Tartt's books. Theo and Boris experimentwith bisexuality sexually as teens. teens, and Theo feels awkward about it afterwards, but admits to himself that he loves Boris. When they meet again as adults however, Boris is unfazed. This trope quick to deny that he is anything other than straight, and that he used Theo as a theme in Tartt's works.substitute for girls. The truth of this is... debatable.
* AmbiguouslyBi: As per usual in Tartt's books. Theo and Boris experiment
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* DrugsAreBad: Downplayed. Theo and Boris take ''quite'' a lot of drugs from their early teens and on. While it doesn't send them into a Series/AfterschoolSpecial-style tailspin of self-destruction, it still has a deleterious effect on their lives. In adulthood, Theo has become a FunctionalAddict who struggles with getting off the pills.
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* DrugsAreBad: Downplayed. Theo and Boris take ''quite'' a lot of drugs from their early teens and on. While it doesn't send them into a Series/AfterschoolSpecial-style tailspin of self-destruction, it still has a deleterious effect on their lives. In adulthood, Theo has become adulthood each is a different variant of FunctionalAddict who struggles with getting off - Theo is reliant on pharmaceutical opiates to manage his PTSD, and Boris by his own admission has been an alcoholic since the pills. age of thirteen.
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* SurvivorGuilt: One of the things that connect Theo and Pippa is the fact that they both lost a parental figure (Theo his mother, Pippa Welty) to the bombing after convincing them to come along to the museum, while they themselves survived.
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* AbusiveParents: Theo's father, and Boris' family as well.
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* AbusiveParents: Theo's father, and Boris' family as well. Theo's father is neglectful and abandons him and his mother. [[spoiler:Boris' father is physically abusive.]]
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* TheAlcoholic: Larry Decker, Boris's father, and Boris himself.
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* TheAlcoholic: Larry Decker, Boris's father, and Boris himself.himself all have pretty serious drinking problems.
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* CondescendingCompassion: Toddy, after the Barbours reconnect with Theo.
* CoolLoser: Boris.
* CoolLoser: Boris.
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* CondescendingCompassion: Toddy, after the Barbours reconnect with Theo. \n He mentions how Theo living with them for a while inspired him to try and help out "disadvantaged" children.
* CoolLoser:Boris.Boris is not popular in school - for quite a while Theo is his only real friend - but is noted as having a lot of positive traits and being very interesting to talk to.
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* DeadlyRoadTrip: Amsterdam
* DeathIsSuchAnOddThing: Theo's reaction to the death of his mother
* DeathIsSuchAnOddThing: Theo's reaction to the death of his mother
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* DeadlyRoadTrip: Amsterdam
There is a section of the book involving a trip to Amsterdam [[spoiler:where Martin tries to kill Theo and Boris, and is killed himself instead.]]
* DeathIsSuchAnOddThing: Theo's reaction to the death of hismothermother.
* DeathIsSuchAnOddThing: Theo's reaction to the death of his
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* DiedHappilyEverAfter: Heavily implied with Theo's mother, in his vision of her in the mirror
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* DiedHappilyEverAfter: Heavily implied with Theo's mother, in his vision of her in the mirror mirror.
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* FauxAffablyEvil: Lucius Reeve.
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* FauxAffablyEvil: Lucius Reeve.Reeve gives the impression (sometimes) of being affable but it is very clearly all on the surface.
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* LonelyRichKid: Andy Barbour is very much this.
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* LonelyRichKid: Andy Barbour is very much this.this - the Barbours are obviously very rich and Andy doesn't really have friends other than Theo.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The terrorists who blew up the museum. This is to a much higher degree than the trope implies, considering that the attack is the sole reason the whole plot is kicked off. It's possible Tartt just forgot, or had to [[AbortedArc abort the arc]] somewhere in the writing process.
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* AlternateHistory: The housing bubble is alluded to, but the reason the event that kills Theo's mother is so significant? Because of [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror another, much bigger destructive event]] that implicitly ''doesn't'' happen in Theo's world.
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* AlternateHistory: The housing bubble is alluded to, UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror includes the terrorist bombing of the museum but doesn't include the reason the event that kills Theo's mother is so significant? Because of [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror another, much bigger destructive event]] that implicitly ''doesn't'' happen in Theo's world.9/11 attacks.
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* BastardBoyfriend: Boris is this, despite being a sympathetic character, and dating Theo's self-destructive father isn't Xandra's smartest choice.
