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Published in [[TheSixties 1961]], ''The Moviegoer'' by Walker Percy is an [[UsefulNotes/{{Existentialism}} existentialist]] novel about [[EveryMan Binx]], a humdrum stockbroker who drifts through life going to movies and dating girls.
It's notable for [[SubvertedTrope subverting]] a lot of tropes, and refuting DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife.
It's notable for [[SubvertedTrope subverting]] a lot of tropes, and refuting DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife.
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Published in [[TheSixties 1961]], ''The Moviegoer'' by Walker Percy is an [[UsefulNotes/{{Existentialism}} existentialist]] novel about [[EveryMan [[TheEveryman Binx]], a humdrum stockbroker who drifts through life going to movies and dating girls.
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* {{Everyman}}: Nothing sets Binx apart from the average man on the street, something he is totally ok with.
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* HardDrinkingPartyGirl: Kate's demenor is a toned down version of this until we find out that she's a pill-popper, then she goes into SadClown.
* ItsAlwaysMardiGrasInNewOrleans: Subversion. The one week timeframe of the books is before, during and after the party, but Binx goes to a business trip while it's on and nothing comes from it.
* ItsAlwaysMardiGrasInNewOrleans: Subversion. The one week timeframe of the books is before, during and after the party, but Binx goes to a business trip while it's on and nothing comes from it.
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* HardDrinkingPartyGirl: Kate's demenor demeanor is a toned down toned-down version of this until we find out that she's a pill-popper, then she goes into SadClown.
* ItsAlwaysMardiGrasInNewOrleans:Subversion. Subverted. The one week one-week timeframe of the books is before, during and after the party, but Binx goes to a business trip while it's on and nothing comes from it.
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* WhereDaWhiteWomenAt: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]]; Kate tells Binx that she made a pass at their black butler but he refused her.
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-->''"What is the nature of the search? you ask. Really it is very simple; at least for a fellow like me. So simple that it is easily overlooked. The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life."''
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* IllGirl: Kate, of the "psychologically delicate" style.
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* TheDandy: Binx meets one on the train to New Orleans, and [[DeconstructedTrope points out exactly why he'll never be happy]]. Funnily enough, he is also a "moviegoer", which means he's an existentialist like Binx but is too caught up in feelings and finding the deeper meaning in things. Becomes a FunnyAneurysmMoment.
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* TheDandy: Binx meets one on the train to New Orleans, and [[DeconstructedTrope points out exactly why he'll never be happy]]. Funnily enough, he is also a "moviegoer", which means he's an existentialist like Binx but is too caught up in feelings and finding the deeper meaning in things. Becomes a FunnyAneurysmMoment.
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Published in [[TheSixties 1961]], ''The Moviegoer'' by Walker Percy is an [[{{Existentialism}} [[UsefulNotes/{{Existentialism}} existentialist]] novel about [[EveryMan Binx]], a humdrum stockbroker who drifts through life going to movies and dating girls. It's notable for [[SubvertedTrope subverting]] a lot of tropes, and refuting DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife.
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* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: Averted, Binx is really ambivalent to anything resembling life goals and is all around ambitionless, he spends his time making money, [[TitleDrop going to the movies]], and dating his secretaries. It's actually his family that thinks this must be true, and they more or less bully him into trying to get personal growth. The page quote is Binx's view on the subject.
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* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: Averted, Averted; Binx is really ambivalent to anything resembling life goals and is all around ambitionless, he spends his time making money, [[TitleDrop going to the movies]], and dating his secretaries. It's actually his family that thinks this must be true, and they more or less bully him into trying to get personal growth. The page quote is Binx's view on the subject.
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* FunnyAneurysmMoment: Every critique Binx has to TheDandy on the train is a TakeThat to new-agers, beatniks, and far east religious types, except the book came out in 1961 when all those things hadn't become famous yet.
* HardDrinkingPartyGirl: Kate's demenor is a toned down version of this until we find out that she's pill-popper, then she goes into SadClown.
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* WhereDaWhiteWomenAt: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]], Kate tells Binx that she made a pass at their black butler but he refused her.
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* WhereDaWhiteWomenAt: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]], Inverted]]; Kate tells Binx that she made a pass at their black butler but he refused her.
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* KissingCousins: Binx and Kate, which almost gets him in trouble.
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Published in [[TheSixties 1961]], ''The Moviegoer'' by Walker Percy is an [[Existentialism [[{{Existentialism}} existentialist]] novel about [[EveryMan Binx]], a humdrum stockbroker who drifts through life going to movies and dating girls. It's notable for [[SubvertedTrope subverting]] a lot of tropes, and refuting DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife.
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Published in [[TheSixties 1961]], ''The Moviegoer'' by Walker Percy is an {{Existentialism}} [[Existentialism existentialist]] novel about [[EveryMan Binx]], a humdrum stockbroker who drifts through life going to movies and dating girls. It's notable for [[SubvertedTrope subverting]] a lot of tropes, and refuting DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife.
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* TheSeeker: Ol' Binxie. Except he considers "The Search" enough for him, and tries to make sure he's a Someone and not an Anyone.
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* BottleFairy: Kate's demenor is a toned down version of this until we find out that she's pill-popper.
* TheDandy: Binx meets one on the train to New Orleans, and [[DeconstructedTrope points out exactly why he'll never be happy]]. Funnily enough, he is also a "moviegoer", which means he's an existentialist like Binx but is too caught up in feelings and finding the deeper meaning in things. Becomes a FunnyAneurysmMoment.
* TheDandy: Binx meets one on the train to New Orleans, and [[DeconstructedTrope points out exactly why he'll never be happy]]. Funnily enough, he is also a "moviegoer", which means he's an existentialist like Binx but is too caught up in feelings and finding the deeper meaning in things. Becomes a FunnyAneurysmMoment.
* TheDandy: Binx meets one on the train to New Orleans, and [[DeconstructedTrope points out exactly why he'll never be happy]]. Funnily enough, he is also a "moviegoer", which means he's an existentialist like Binx but is too caught up in feelings and finding the deeper meaning in things. Becomes a FunnyAneurysmMoment.
* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: Averted, Binx is really ambivalent to anything resembling life goals and is all around ambitionless, he spends his time making money, [[TitleDrop going to the movies]], and dating his secretaries. It's actually his family that thinks this must be true, and they more or less bully him into trying to get personal growth. The page quote is Binx's view on the subject.
* {{Everyman}}: nothing sets Binx apart from the average man on the street, something he is totally ok with.
* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: Averted, Binx is really ambivalent to anything resembling life goals and is all around ambitionless, he spends his time making money, [[TitleDrop going to the movies]], and dating his secretaries. It's actually his family that thinks this must be true, and they more or less bully him into trying to get personal growth. The page quote is Binx's view on the subject.
* {{Everyman}}: nothing sets Binx apart from the average man on the street, something he is totally ok with.
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* {{Everyman}}: nothing sets Binx apart from the average man on the street, something he is totally ok with.
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* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: Averted, Binx HardDrinkingPartyGirl: Kate's demenor is really ambivalent to anything resembling life goals and is all around ambitionless, he spends his time making money, [[TitleDrop going to the movies]], and dating his secretaries. It's actually his family a toned down version of this until we find out that thinks this must be true, and they more or less bully him she's pill-popper, then she goes into trying to get personal growth. The page quote is Binx's view on SadClown.
* IllGirl: Kate, of thesubject.
* {{Everyman}}: nothing sets Binx apart from the average man on the street, something he is totally ok with."psychologically delicate" style.
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* {{Everyman}}: nothing sets Binx apart from the average man on the street, something he is totally ok with.
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* TheFoil: How Percy uses Binx to make SocialCommentary.
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* TheBigEasy: Where Binx is from and the book takes place. Binx actually hates the [[UsefulNotesNewOrleans French Quarter]] and the book averts most of the tropes expected from the setting. Largely it's used to show that "The South" is dying, and comes down on the side of 'it never really was that great'.
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* TheBigEasy: Where Binx is from and the book takes place. Binx actually hates the [[UsefulNotesNewOrleans [[UsefulNotes/NewOrleans French Quarter]] and the book averts most of the tropes expected from the setting. Largely it's used to show that "The South" is dying, and comes down on the side of 'it never really was that great'.
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* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: This is what kicks off the plot. Binx has no life ambitions and sends his time making money, [[TitleDrop going to the movies]], and dating his secretaries. It's actually his family that thinks this must be true, and they more or less bully him into trying to get personal growth. The page quote is Binx's view on the subject.
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* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: This is what kicks off the plot. Averted, Binx has no is really ambivalent to anything resembling life ambitions goals and sends is all around ambitionless, he spends his time making money, [[TitleDrop going to the movies]], and dating his secretaries. It's actually his family that thinks this must be true, and they more or less bully him into trying to get personal growth. The page quote is Binx's view on the subject.
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* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: This is what kicks off the plot. Binx has no life ambitions and sends his time making money, [[TitleDrop going to the movies]], and dating his secretaries. It's actually his family that thinks this must be true, and they more or less bully him into trying to get personal growth. The page quote is Binx's view on the subject.
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*TheSeeker: Ol' Binxie. Except he considers "The Search" enough for him, and tries to make sure he's a Someone and not an Anyone.
* TitleDrop: Binx calls himself a moviegoer, and uses the phrase to describe his cousin and TheDandy. Both of them are in on "The Search".
* TitleDrop: Binx calls himself a moviegoer, and uses the phrase to describe his cousin and TheDandy. Both of them are in on "The Search".
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*TheBigEasy: Where Binx is from and the book takes place. Binx actually hates the [[UsefulNotesNewOrleans French Quarter]] and the book averts most of the tropes expected from the setting. Largely it's used to show that "The South" is dying, and comes down on the side of 'it never really was that great'.
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* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: This is what kicks off the plot. Binx has no life ambitions and sends his time making money, [[TitleDrop going to the movies]], and dating his secretaries. Something It's actually his family that thinks this must be true, and they more or less bully him into trying to get personal growth.
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* TheDandy: Binx meets one on the train to New Orleans, and [[DeconstructedTrope points out exactly why he'll never be happy]]. Funnily enough, he is also a "moviegoer", which means he's an existentialist like Binx but is too caught up in feelings and finding the deeper meaning in things. Becomes a FunnyAneurysmMoment.
*TheFoil: How Percy uses Binx to make SocialCommentary.
*FunnyAneurysmMoment: Every critique Binx has to TheDandy on the train is a TakeThat to new-agers, beatniks, and far east religious types, except the book came out in 1961 when all those things hadn't become famous yet.
* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: This is what kicks off the plot. Binx has no life ambitions and sends his time making money, [[TitleDrop going to the movies]], and dating his secretaries. Something his
* {{Everyman}}: nothing sets Binx apart from the average man on the street, something he is totally ok with.
* ItsAlwaysMardiGrasInNewOrleans: Subversion. The one week timeframe of the books is before, during and after the party, but Binx goes to a business trip while its on and nothing comes from it.
*TheFoil: How Percy uses Binx to make SocialCommentary.
*FunnyAneurysmMoment: Every critique Binx has to TheDandy on the train is a TakeThat to new-agers, beatniks, and far east religious types, except the book came out in 1961 when all those things hadn't become famous yet.
* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: This is what kicks off the plot. Binx has no life ambitions and sends his time making money, [[TitleDrop going to the movies]], and dating his secretaries. Something his
* {{Everyman}}: nothing sets Binx apart from the average man on the street, something he is totally ok with.
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* {{Everyman}}: nothing sets Binx apart from the average man on the street, something he is totally ok with.
* ItsAlwaysMardiGrasInNewOrleans: Subversion. The one week timeframe of the books is before, during and after the party, but Binx goes to a business trip while its on and nothing comes from it.
* {{Everyman}}: nothing sets Binx apart from the average man on the street, something he is totally ok with.
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* {{Everyman}}: nothing sets Binx apart from the average man on the street, something he is totally ok with.
* ItsAlwaysMardiGrasInNewOrleans: Subversion. The one week timeframe
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* ItsAlwaysMardiGrasInNewOrleans: Subversion. The one week timeframe of the books is before, during and after the party, but Binx goes to a business trip while its on and nothing comes from it.it.
* WhereDaWhiteWomenAt: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]], Kate tells Binx that she made a pass at their black butler but he refused her.
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* AlwaysMardiGrasInNewOrleans: ItsAlwaysMardiGrasInNewOrleans: Subversion. The one week timeframe of the books is before, during and after the party, but Binx goes to a business trip while its on and nothing comes from it.
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Published in [[TheSixties 1961]], ''The Moviegoer'' by Walker Percy is an {{Existentialist}} {{Existentialism}} novel about [[EveryMan Binx]], a humdrum stockbroker who drifts through life going to movies and dating girls. It's notable for [[SubvertedTrope subverting]] a lot of tropes, and refuting DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife.
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* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: This is what kicks off the plot. Binx has no life ambitions and sends his time making money, [[TitleDrop going to the movies]], and dating his secretaries.secretaries.
*{{Everyman}}: nothing sets Binx apart from the average man on the street, something he is totally ok with.
*AlwaysMardiGrasInNewOrleans: Subversion. The one week timeframe of the books is before, during and after the party, but Binx goes to a business trip while its on and nothing comes from it.
*{{Everyman}}: nothing sets Binx apart from the average man on the street, something he is totally ok with.
*AlwaysMardiGrasInNewOrleans: Subversion. The one week timeframe of the books is before, during and after the party, but Binx goes to a business trip while its on and nothing comes from it.
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-->''"What is the nature of the search? you ask. Really it is very simple; at least for a fellow like me. So simple that it is easily overlooked. The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life."''
Published in [[TheSixties 1961]], ''The Moviegoer'' by Walker Percy is an {{Existentialist}} novel about [[EveryMan Binx]], a humdrum stockbroker who drifts through life going to movies and dating girls. It's notable for [[SubvertedTrope subverting]] a lot of tropes, and refuting DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife.
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*AllMenArePerverts: In Kate's salacious comic books, men are different kinds of perverts, from hulking brute to southern gentleman.
*WhereDaWhiteWomenAt: [[InvertedTrope]], Kate tells Binx that she made a pass at their black butler but he refused her.
*BottleFairy: Kate's demenor is a toned down version of this until we find out that she's pill-popper.
*PhraseCatcher: Binx and his dad are repeatedly told they "should go into (medical) research".
*DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: This is what kicks off the plot. Binx has no life ambitions and sends his time making money, [[TitleDrop going to the movies]], and dating his secretaries.
Published in [[TheSixties 1961]], ''The Moviegoer'' by Walker Percy is an {{Existentialist}} novel about [[EveryMan Binx]], a humdrum stockbroker who drifts through life going to movies and dating girls. It's notable for [[SubvertedTrope subverting]] a lot of tropes, and refuting DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife.
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*AllMenArePerverts: In Kate's salacious comic books, men are different kinds of perverts, from hulking brute to southern gentleman.
*WhereDaWhiteWomenAt: [[InvertedTrope]], Kate tells Binx that she made a pass at their black butler but he refused her.
*BottleFairy: Kate's demenor is a toned down version of this until we find out that she's pill-popper.
*PhraseCatcher: Binx and his dad are repeatedly told they "should go into (medical) research".
*DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: This is what kicks off the plot. Binx has no life ambitions and sends his time making money, [[TitleDrop going to the movies]], and dating his secretaries.
