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1	'''Basic Trope''': A character is described by the narrator as resembling a celebrity.
2	* '''Straight''': Alice is described as resembling a young Creator/AnneHathaway in her introduction.
3	* '''Exaggerated''':
4	** All of the characters are described as resembling celebrities: Alice's lover Bob is described as looking like Creator/BradPitt, her goofy best friend Claire is described as looking like Creator/KateWinslet, BigBad Devious Danny looks like Creator/PeterLorre, and RomanticFalseLead Ethan is described like Creator/GeorgeClooney.
5	** Not only Alice resembles as Anne Hathaway, [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed she also sounds and acts like a copycat version of Anne Hathaway.]]
6	* '''Downplayed''': The narrator notes how Alice tried to make her hair look like Anne Hathaway's.
7	* '''Justified''':
8	** Hathaway popularized/originated the eponymous Hathaway-style hairdo Alice is known for.
9	** The book is a novelization of a film in which Hathaway played Alice.
10	* '''Inverted''': Anne Hathaway looks like Alice.
11	* '''Subverted''': The narrator says "Alice, in the early morning light, looked like a young Anne Hathaway... No, Creator/ReeseWitherspoon... No, Creator/ChristinaApplegate... No, come to think of it, Alice didn't look like anyone besides her little old self".
12	* '''Double Subverted''': "Wait - she kinda really did look like Anne Hathaway."
13	* '''Parodied''': "As Alice walked down the street, [[DirtyOldMan Old Man Martins]] called out 'You look like Louise Brooks today, little lady!' 'Who the hell is Louise Brooks?' Alice yelled back."
14	* '''Zig Zagged''': In chapter 1, Alice is described as looking like Anne Hathaway, but later in chapter 23 is described as looking like Creator/AnnaKendrick, and then in chapter 45 as Creator/NataliePortman.
15	* '''Averted''': Never is Alice compared to any celebrity, past or present.
16	* '''Enforced''': The writer wants Hathaway to star in a flim adaptation based on her book.
17	* '''Lampshaded''': "My name is MarySue and I look like Anne Hathaway and Music/TaylorSwift [[AmbiguouslyBrown and]] Music/{{Beyonce}} and Creator/SandraBullock [[Fanfic/MyImmortal and Amy]] [[Music/{{Evanescence}} Lee!]] Aren't I special!"
18	* '''Invoked''': Alice mentions that she is styling her hair to look like Anne Hathaway.
19	* '''Exploited''': ???
20	* '''Defied''': Alice is mentioned as styling herself to look less like Anne Hathaway.
21	* '''Discussed''': ???
22	* '''Conversed''': ???
23	* '''Deconstructed''': Out of universe, Anne Hathaway sues for defamation for the use of her image.
24	* '''Reconstructed''': Anne Hathaway does not win, and the court case ends up giving the book much additional publicity.
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