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His Family

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His Family	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })His Family is a 1917 novel by Ernest Poole.It is set 1913-15, and it tells the story of Roger Gale, a New York City businessman who runs a press clipping agency. Roger is a widower of "not quite sixty years of age" whose wife Judith has been dead for 16 years. On her deathbed Judith told him "you will live on in our children's lives", but that hasn't really come to pass, as Roger has remained rather uninvolved in the lives of their three daughters. Those daughters are: Edith, a conventional Edwardian Era housewife who is married with four children, a fifth on the way. Deborah, a feminist, suffragette, and political activist who runs a school dedicated to serving the poorest children in New York's slums. Laura, the youngest, still in her late twenties, a party girl who is devoted to pleasure above all things.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })A narrow escape from bankruptcy leads Roger to reassess his life and reminds him of his wife's dying words. After considering that his daughters are all three grown women with their own lives, Roger decides to honor his wife's dying wish and involve himself in their lives again. And so he does, learning more about his daughters and about life in a rapidly growing, rapidly changing New York.His Family and Ernest Poole are largely forgotten today, except for one thing: this novel won the first Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
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His Family / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
His Family / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: The phrase "his family" is said more than once, but most powerfully in the last line of the novel, describing Roger's death:
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His Family / int_19da8a03	type	Incurable Cough of Death
His Family / int_19da8a03	comment	Incurable Cough of Death: While going on the rounds with Laura, Roger sees one immigrant family where the husband is coughing and gasping for breath. He's in the last stages of tuberculosis.
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His Family / int_1bc2e445	type	End of an Age
His Family / int_1bc2e445	comment	End of an Age: Not just all the immigrants, but the rapid pace of industrialization and the coming of the automobile make for a rapidly changing New York. ("Yes, here the old was passing.")
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His Family / int_1e1aa82a	type	Diabolus ex Machina
His Family / int_1e1aa82a	comment	Diabolus ex Machina: Edith's husband Bruce is hit by a car and killed. This sets in motion a whole series of events, as it turns out Bruce was broke, which leaves Edith and her five children to stay with Roger, whose own finances become strained from having to support her.
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His Family / int_3149c4b0	type	It Will Never Catch On
His Family / int_3149c4b0	comment	It Will Never Catch On: The outbreak of war in Europe is hurting Roger's business. A panicked Deborah says "The war can't go on—it's too horribly big!"
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His Family / int_37065c74	type	Hangover Sensitivity
His Family / int_37065c74	comment	Hangover Sensitivity: As Laura's wedding to Hal is about to get started, Roger hears an usher, hurting after the bachelor party, say "God, what a terrible head I've got!"
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His Family / int_43964f3	type	Worst News Judgment Ever
His Family / int_43964f3	comment	Worst News Judgment Ever: Roger is irritated to see a front-page newspaper headline about some society woman getting divorced.
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His Family / int_55232afa	type	Politically Incorrect Hero
His Family / int_55232afa	comment	Politically Incorrect Hero: Roger is rather bigoted towards immigrants. "But he had a deep aversion for those millions of foreign tenement people." He sometimes describes them as "swarthy". But his daughter Deborah is tireless in her charity work for New York's immigrant poor, and eventually she brings Roger around. Towards the end of the book he's hosting youth group meetings in his house.
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His Family / int_639cefd2	type	Go into the Light
His Family / int_639cefd2	comment	Go into the Light: Roger's death in the last paragraph of the novel is described this way. He has a dream in which "The sun rose strangely dazzling. It filled the heavens with blinding light. He felt himself drawn up and up."
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His Family / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
His Family / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: "For you will live on in our children's lives." Judith's dying words, repeated throughout the novel. In context, it's Judith anticipating that Roger will meet her in the afterlife to tell her about the children. But Roger comes to realize that it's more about how the family has existed for generations before him and will for generations after.
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His Family / int_7aeb0635	type	Arms Dealer
His Family / int_7aeb0635	comment	Arms Dealer: World War I is a boon to Laura's husband Hal, who makes a fortune selling weapons. Deborah is disgusted.
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His Family / int_7b3ebb57	type	Buxom Beauty Standard
His Family / int_7b3ebb57	comment	Buxom Beauty Standard: With a dose of Squick and maybe even some Incest Subtext, as Roger is describing his youngest daughter, Laura.
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His Family / int_815d5a99	type	The Three Faces of Eve
His Family / int_815d5a99	comment	The Three Faces of Eve: Roger's daughters. Edith fits the "wife" face exactly, nurturing and motherly and dedicated to her children to the exclusion of everything else. Laura is definitely the "seductress", as she is sexy, she dresses sexy, she likes to party, and she Really Gets Around. Deborah isn't quite the "innocent", as she is a hard-working social activist, but she is somewhat virginal.
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His Family / int_8b568cb7	type	Posthumous Character
His Family / int_8b568cb7	comment	Posthumous Character: Judith has been dead 16 years when the novel starts, but she is mentioned througout, as Roger thinks about her and their lives together and what she told him right before she died.
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His Family / int_9dd2af4a	type	Inspirationally Disadvantaged
His Family / int_9dd2af4a	comment	Inspirationally Disadvantaged: Johnny Geer, the young boy Roger meets while making the rounds with Deborah. Johnny is severely crippled with Pott's Disease, a fatal tuberculosis of the bones. Roger bonds with Johnny and eventually takes him into the family business.
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His Family / int_beb932ca	type	Big Applesauce
His Family / int_beb932ca	comment	Big Applesauce: One of the themes is the difference between the whiter, more genteel New York of Roger's youth, and the new New York filled with immigrants from Eastern Europe and Italy. Roger is rather discomfited by all the new arrivals, but Deborah has dedicated her life to their betterment.
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His Family / int_c4286511	type	For Doom the Bell Tolls
His Family / int_c4286511	comment	For Doom the Bell Tolls: Early in the novel Roger hears the toll of a bell sounding ten o'clock. "And as he listened it seemed to say 'There is still time, but you have not long.'" Later, Roger is startled when a bell tolls while he's talking with terminally ill Johnny. And right at the end, when Roger is dying, he hears another tolling bell in his dreams.
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His Family / int_e3109dae	type	Switching P.O.V.
His Family / int_e3109dae	comment	Switching P.O.V.: Most of the book is third-person limited from Roger's POV, but occasionally it leaves Roger to go with other characters, like when Deborah and Allan are having an emotional conversation when Roger isn't present.
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His Family / int_e9fb38	type	The Talk
His Family / int_e9fb38	comment	The Talk: Deborah and Edith's children want to get to the family farm in time to see a calf being born. This leads to thoughts of how animals are born, and leads 11-year-old Elizabeth to ask her aunt "Won't you please tell us about—about—" Later, right before Laura is getting married, Roger tries to bumble his way through this, only for Laura to say "You needn't tell me anything! I know more than you think—I know enough!"
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His Family / int_f06b07ff	type	Locked Out of the Loop
His Family / int_f06b07ff	comment	Locked Out of the Loop: No one tells Johnny that his diagnosis is terminal, but he eventually figures it out.
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His Family / int_f3626b09	type	Mercy Kill
His Family / int_f3626b09	comment	Mercy Kill: At Deborah's request, Dr. Allan Baird shoots a terminally ill tuberculosis patient full of a lethal shot of morphine.
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His Family / int_fa6bfde9	type	Have a Gay Old Time
His Family / int_fa6bfde9	comment	Have a Gay Old Time: As with most literature of the era, "gay" and "queer" are used in accordance with their original meanings.
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