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Cat's Eye (1988)

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Cat's Eye (1988)	comment	A 1988 novel by Margaret Atwood, following the story of Elaine Risley, a painter, who returns to Toronto to find herself overwhelmed by her past. Memories of childhood - unbearable betrayals and cruelties - surface relentlessly, forcing her to confront the spectre of Cordelia, once her best friend and tormentor, who has haunted her for forty years. The novel focuses largely on the theme of identity, as well as Feminism and mentions Canada during World War II.
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Cat's Eye (1988) / int_12b1f5f3	comment	No Such Thing as Bad Publicity: In-universe, a woman runs into Elaine's art showing and tosses a bottle of ink at one of her paintings of Mrs. Smeath. Elaine actually mistakes her for Grace but sees that she is a stranger. This event gives Elaine publicity.
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Cat's Eye (1988) / int_19209d54	comment	Sibling Rivalry: Cordelia and her older sisters obviously don't get on.
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Cat's Eye (1988) / int_1b60dcba	comment	The Bully: Cordelia's vicious bullying of Elaine is particularly disturbing because she keeps insisting it's to "improve" her. She also turns on Carol occasionally, and Grace later on. Ironically, Elaine starts to bully Cordelia when they are reunited at thirteen, but nowhere near to the same extent.
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Cat's Eye (1988) / int_1c79ae8c	type	Those Two Guys
Cat's Eye (1988) / int_1c79ae8c	comment	Those Two Guys: Cordelia's sisters, Perdita and Miranda.
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Cat's Eye (1988) / int_2764d432	comment	Mrs. Smeath for Elaine is a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing that clings to moral superiority. Elaine as an adult paints her in a humiliating fashion, and those paintings become her most notable.
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Cat's Eye (1988) / int_32ec6393	type	Shotgun Wedding
Cat's Eye (1988) / int_32ec6393	comment	Shotgun Wedding: Elaine marries Jon quickly after finding out she's pregnant with their daughter.
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Cat's Eye (1988) / int_3bc88a7f	type	Foregone Conclusion
Cat's Eye (1988) / int_3bc88a7f	comment	Foregone Conclusion: We already know early on in the novel that Stephen is dead.
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Cat's Eye (1988) / int_403b6f3	comment	Fainting: Elaine begins to do this to herself while under Cordelia's bullying regime- she stops doing it once she breaks free of Cordelia's control.
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Cat's Eye (1988) / int_54cbd0cb	type	This Is Unforgivable!
Cat's Eye (1988) / int_54cbd0cb	comment	This Is Unforgivable!: Elaine's parents, when Cordelia, Grace and Carol force Elaine to climb on the icy river and leave her to drown and freeze when the ice breaks. Despite Elaine's protests that the girls weren't with her, Elaine's mother calls the girls' parents who each exact their own punishment. For Elaine, she decides that dying is much worse than the daily scorn that the girls can push on her.
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Cat's Eye (1988) / int_5c98d100	type	One of the Boys
Cat's Eye (1988) / int_5c98d100	comment	One of the Boys: Elaine, very much, especially since it takes her a long time before she learns to trust other women again. She does eventually befriend some fellow female artists.
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Cat's Eye (1988) / int_66755d29	type	Author Avatar
Cat's Eye (1988) / int_66755d29	comment	Author Avatar: Elaine's childhood is modelled on Atwood's own, most notably the time she spent living in the wilderness of Quebec and Ontario due to her entomologist father's work.
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Cat's Eye (1988) / int_6d892421	type	Teacher/Student Romance
Cat's Eye (1988) / int_6d892421	comment	Teacher/Student Romance: Mr. Hrbik has an affair with both Suzie and Elaine, though the latter comes away from the relationship far better off than the former.
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Cat's Eye (1988) / int_707193f6	type	Aloof Big Brother
Cat's Eye (1988) / int_707193f6	comment	Aloof Big Brother: Stephen, who is condescending towards Elaine.
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Cat's Eye (1988) / int_77d826c7	type	Stern Teacher
Cat's Eye (1988) / int_77d826c7	comment	Stern Teacher: Ms. Lumley, who inspires terror in her young students.
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Cat's Eye (1988) / int_90e31482	type	Laser-Guided Karma
Cat's Eye (1988) / int_90e31482	comment	Laser-Guided Karma: Mrs. Smeath for Elaine is a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing that clings to moral superiority. Elaine as an adult paints her in a humiliating fashion, and those paintings become her most notable. Cordelia wedges her way into Elaine's tiny circle of friends and humiliates the latter on a regular basis. She then finds herself humiliated similarly in high school, as a result of her own unwillingness to face her problems and flaws.
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Cat's Eye (1988) / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
Cat's Eye (1988) / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: Josef after Suzie nearly kills herself, since she carried his child. Elaine leaves him over his lamenting.
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Cat's Eye (1988) / int_a939d96a	type	Adults Are Useless
Cat's Eye (1988) / int_a939d96a	comment	Adults Are Useless: Elaine's parents seem vaguely aware she's being bullied, but are clueless as to how to stop it, because she hasn't been physically hurt. With that said, her mother finally puts her foot down when Elaine nearly drowns and freezes in the river, calling the girls' parents to make sure they are scolded.
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Cat's Eye (1988) / int_b11ac9f5	comment	Abusive Parents: Cordelia's father is obviously quite psychologically abusive towards Cordelia, despite the charming faÃ§ade he puts on around her friends. Carol's parents aren't much nicer, her father even beats her with a belt, buckle end at one point, and her mother beats her with a hairbrush for leaving Elaine to die in the river.
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Cat's Eye (1988) / int_b61b755f	type	Tomboy
Cat's Eye (1988) / int_b61b755f	comment	Tomboy: Elaine, like her mother, which makes her very much ill-equipped to deal with the expected social dynamics of young girls.
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Cat's Eye (1988) / int_bcbb5596	type	Not Afraid of You Anymore
Cat's Eye (1988) / int_bcbb5596	comment	Not Afraid of You Anymore: Elaine finally breaks free of Cordelia and Grace's bullying after she nearly freezes to death in the river.
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Cat's Eye (1988) / int_be009bbc	type	Alliterative Name
Cat's Eye (1988) / int_be009bbc	comment	Alliterative Name: Carol Campbell.
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Cat's Eye (1988) / int_c5249b29	comment	Nice Guy: Mr. Banerji, a student of Elaine's father, who is a very polite, respectful individual. Mrs. Feinstein, whom Elaine remembers fondly into her adulthood. Also Ben, Elaine's second husband.
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Cat's Eye (1988) / int_c868a42a	comment	Freudian Excuse: It's heavily implied that Cordelia's cruelty towards Elaine is her imitating her father's psychological abuse of her, "I can hear this for what it is. It's an imitation, it's acting. It's an impersonation, of someone much older." Elaine's inability to understand other girls her age as a child was because she constantly moved around with only her parents and older brother for company.
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Cat's Eye (1988) / int_ca3a4a31	type	Disability as an Excuse for Jerkassery
Cat's Eye (1988) / int_ca3a4a31	comment	Disability as an Excuse for Jerkassery: An indirect example, but Grace gets Carol and Elaine to do what she wants because her mother has a 'bad heart'.
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Cat's Eye (1988) / int_cb70651c	type	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
Cat's Eye (1988) / int_cb70651c	comment	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: Did the Virgin Mary really come to Elaine's side when she fell through the ice in the creek? It was likely a hallucination.
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Cat's Eye (1988) / int_d08595d3	type	Broken Bird
Cat's Eye (1988) / int_d08595d3	comment	Broken Bird: Elaine, so much: 'Cordelia, I think. You made me believe I was nothing. "So?" To which there is no answer.'
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Cat's Eye (1988) / int_e6b5d22f	type	Catchphrase
Cat's Eye (1988) / int_e6b5d22f	comment	Catchphrase: "So?", which both Cordelia and Elaine use.
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Cat's Eye (1988) / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Jerkass: Cordelia is one; she mellows as she gets older. Grace and to a larger extent, her mother Mrs. Smeath, who is pointlessly cruel to Elaine, a child for being a 'heathen'. Elaine gets her own back later when she paints a series of humiliating portraits of Mrs. Smeath for an art gallery opening.
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