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Seeds of Yesterday
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Seeds of Yesterday by V. C. Andrews, published in 1984, is the fourth and final booknote (unless you count the ghostwritten prequel Garden of Shadows—and fans don't) in the Dollanganger Series. The book follows the continuing story of Cathy Dollanganger Sheffield, her husband/brother Chris, and her children.Bart, now a successful businessman in his own right, stands posed to inherit the vast Foxworth fortune on his 25th birthday. His first act is to rebuild Foxworth Hall in all its glory, and Cathy and Chris (now in their mid-fifties), their teenage daughter Cindy, Cathy's son Jory, and Jory's beautiful bride Melodie, arrive for an extended visit to the newly restored mansion. The house brings back painful memories for Cathy and Chris, who vow to stay only until Bart's birthday, after which they will spend the rest of their lives in Hawaii, basking in the sun that was once denied to them.But after a tragic accident, they find themselves staying on and on as jealousy, greed, and sibling rivalry threaten to tear the family apart. It seems that Foxworth Hall is bent on snaring them in its sinister web until they are again trapped in its walls, just as they were as children, until Cathy realizes that the only way to end the cycle is by healing her children's hearts and bringing love and light into Foxworth Hall again.For the 2015 Lifetime Movie of the Week see Seeds of Yesterday. | |
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Dirty Coward | |
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Dirty Coward: It's implied Bart had sabotaged the ballet performance that left Jory paralyzed. Though it was more than likely Joel who wet the sandbag that hit Jory. | |
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Likes Older Men | |
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Likes Older Men: Cindy considers any man too young for her if he isn't at least 2 years her senior. | |
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Sibling Rivalry | |
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Sibling Rivalry: Bart with both his siblings. When Cathy notices the lustful way Bart is eyeing Melodie. "When had Bart ever not wanted what belonged to Jory?" Cindy and Bart | |
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One-Person Birthday Party | |
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One-Person Birthday Party: No one comes to Bart's Christmas party. Justified Trope, because the invitations were not sent and the RSVPs were falsified. | |
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Childhood Friend Romance | |
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Childhood Friend Romance: Jory and Melodie have been sweethearts since junior high, and the book deconstructs, rather realistically, the danger of such a relationship. One of Melodie's reasons for eventually abandoning Jory is that she's never known life without him and doesn't even know who she is outside of their relationship. | |
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Wrong-Name Outburst: Cathy constantly slips up and calls the twins Cory and Carrie, much to everyone's irritation. | |
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Betty and Veronica Switch | |
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Betty and Veronica Switch: Blonde, blue-eyed Melodie looks like the "Betty", but she physically and emotionally abandons Jory after his accident and cheats on him with Bart before finally leaving him and their children for good. Brunette Toni looks like the "Veronica", but she falls in love with and marries Jory despite his paralysis. | |
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Good Bad Girl | |
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Good Bad Girl: Cindy enjoys sex, has had multiple partners, and likes to wear clothes that show off her figure, but her attitude toward her own sexuality is much healthier than that of most of her family members (if only because she isn't sleeping with any of them). Ironically, Cindy is also adopted, and is thus the only person in the family who could sleep with a family member and still not technically commit incest. | |
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Generation Xerox | |
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Generation Xerox: Jory has grown up to be a ballet dancer like his mother and his late father. Also like his father Jory is paralyzed in an accident, ending his dance career. He also marries a blonde woman who has blonde twins, who then leaves her kids behind and moves away. Chris is killed in a sudden car accident, exactly like his father. Bart's complicated love/hate issues with his mother echo that of his grandfather Malcolm and his uncle Chris. Cindy takes pages on sexuality from her adopted mother Cathy. Her mother describes her as eager for love, but not mature enough to avoid decisions that will come back to bite her. Even Foxworth Hall gets this, being a replica of the house that burned down at the end of Petals on the Wind. | |
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Unto Us a Son and Daughter Are Born | |
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Unto Us a Son and Daughter Are Born: Jory and Melodie's twins, the day after Christmas, no less. | |
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Career-Ending Injury | |
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Similarly which one of them was responsible for Jory's Career-Ending Injury? It’s briefly investigated and Cathy and Chris both have their own opinions, but again the answer is never really given. | |
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Parental Abandonment | |
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Jory has grown up to be a ballet dancer like his mother and his late father. Also like his father Jory is paralyzed in an accident, ending his dance career. He also marries a blonde woman who has blonde twins, who then leaves her kids behind and moves away. | |
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Background Halo | |
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Background Halo: Melodie sports one at one point | |
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Talking Down the Suicidal | |
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Talking Down the Suicidal: A heartbreaking scene when Cathy is in the hospital with her son Jory, desperately trying to convince him to find the will to live. I Have a Family: Inverted Trope—Cathy argues that Jory owes it to his wife and unborn child to live, even if he'd rather not right now. Julian committed suicide in a very similar situation when Cathy was pregnant. To Cathy, this is particularly Close to Home—Julian committed suicide even after Cathy pleaded with him and told him she was pregnant. Would Jory really do the same? | |
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She Is All Grown Up | |
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She Is All Grown Up: Cindy is, and it gives Bart a moment's pause. | |
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Older Than They Look | |
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Older Than They Look: Joel notes that Cathy looks much younger than her 50-something years. Joel being Joel, he suggests it's due to some pact with the devil. She herself attributes it to stretching and exercise. | |
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Dead Guy Junior | |
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Dead Guy Junior: At the end of the book, Jory tells Cathy that he and Toni are planning to name their not-yet born baby after the late Chris or after Cathy (who dies before the baby is even born anyway). | |
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I Am What I Am | |
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I Am What I Am: Cathy has been Happily Married to Chris for two decades at this point, but she still has some shame around it. When Joel condemns her, though, pushes her through that to declare that she is not ashamed. | |
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RevengeSVP | |
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RevengeSVP: Inverted. Bart gets back at those who supposedly snubbed him by not attending his Christmas party—after responding that they would—by destroying them professionally, financially and/or personally. | |
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Belated Love Epiphany | |
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Belated Love Epiphany: In a platonic version, Bart realizes only after Chris dies that he loved and valued him—and that he was, in fact, his father in every meaningful way. | |
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Blatant Lies | |
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Blatant Lies: Bart stops ogling Cindy long enough to tell her "You're Not My Type." Sure, Bart, sure. Bart's type is "women like his mother" and multiple people (from Chris to Cathy to Bart himself) comment that Cindy is quite a bit like Cathy in her youth. | |
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Bittersweet Ending | |
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Bittersweet Ending: Toni and Jory are married and expecting their first child together. Jory is embarking on a new career as a painter. Bart has found his niche as a preacher and he and Cindy have reconciled, he also makes peace with his mother. But he has yet to find true love and probably never will because of his expectations, and Cathy dies unwilling to go on without Chris, feeling that it's time to go and that she isn't needed anymore. | |
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Big Brother Bully | |
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Big Brother Bully: Bart to Cindy. He's constantly verbally abusive to her and physically abusive on several occasions. | |
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Big Fancy House | |
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Big Fancy House: The family moves into a replica of Foxworth Hall, which burned down at the end of Petals on the Wind. | |
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I Have a Family | |
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I Have a Family: Inverted Trope—Cathy argues that Jory owes it to his wife and unborn child to live, even if he'd rather not right now. Julian committed suicide in a very similar situation when Cathy was pregnant. To Cathy, this is particularly Close to Home—Julian committed suicide even after Cathy pleaded with him and told him she was pregnant. Would Jory really do the same? | |
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Incestuous Casting | |
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Cindy and Jory. In a case of invokedIncestuous Casting, Jory and Cindy dance Samson and Delilah together. It's a very sexualized role, and Cathy says they do great and really sell it. After his accident, Cindy tries to cheer Jory up by assuring him that—even paralyzed—she would still want him if he wasn't her brother. | |
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Always Second Best | |
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Always Second Best: Bart feels outshone by Jory, even when Jory is paralyzed. | |
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Like Parent, Like Spouse | |
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Like Parent, Like Spouse: Cathy realizes that Bart will never find the "perfect" woman that he's looking for, because he's really looking for a replica of her. Even worse, at the same time, Bart also projects all his resentments of Cathy onto other women, destroying his chances for love. | |
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Flirtatious Smack on the Ass | |
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Flirtatious Smack on the Ass: Chris and Cathy early in the first chapter, to show they're still going strong as a couple. | |
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Bookends | |
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Book Ends The series began and ended with Chris and Cathy coming to Foxworth Hall. At the end of the book, when Cathy realizes that her time has come, she goes to the attic. The epilogue reveals that she's been decorating it with paper flowers, as she did when imprisoned as a child. The family also has to come to Foxworth Hall due to Chris Sr.'s death in a car accident. At the end of this book, Chris Jr. is the one killed in the same manner as the family is preparing to leave for good. | |
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The Un-Reveal | |
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The Unreveal: In the book, Jory confides in Cathy that someone is playing nasty pranks on him—needles in his shoes or on his seat, salt in his sugar bowl, etc. It's heavily implied that it's either Bart or Joel, but it's never established who, much like we never learn who's responsible for Jory's injury. | |
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Florence Nightingale Effect | |
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Florence Nightingale Effect: Cathy hopes Jory and Toni will get together, even before they do. Jory has been brutally dumped by his wife, and is in need of a Second Love, but doesn't have that many chances to meet ladies. As for the fact that she's his nurse, the book never comments on how this is inappropriate. | |
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Replacement Goldfish | |
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Replacement Goldfish: Bart eventually realizes that Melodie would never have given him a second look had Jory not been paralyzed, meaning he was only this to her. Jory fears he's this to Toni in regards to Bart, but she assures him otherwise. From the description that Cindy gives of him, Melodie's new husband is this to her for Joey. | |
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A Family Affair | |
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A Family Affair: First Bart has an affair with his brother's wife Melodie. Then Jory gets together with Bart's ex, Toni. | |
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Fair-Weather Friend | |
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Fair-Weather Friend: Wife, rather. Melodie pulls away from Joey almost as soon as he's paralyzed. After she finally leaves him, Cathy realizes that the marriage wouldn't have lasted even if Joey hadn't been injured, due to her inability to cope with life's struggles. | |
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Navel-Deep Neckline | |
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Navel-Deep Neckline: Cindy in the red dress she wears to Bart's 25th birthday. | |
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Jerkass Has a Point | |
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Jerkass Has a Point: Bart and Joel's condemnation of Cathy and Chris' incestuous relationship. | |
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When I Was Your Age... | |
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When I Was Your Age...: In conversations with both Bart and Cindy, Cathy says she's sad they're experiencing modern hook-up culture, as opposed to how it was when she was young. In her day they had torrid affairs, but at least they meant something. | |
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Dead Person Impersonation | |
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Dead Person Impersonation: Within the narrative Joel was supposed to have died in the skiing accident. The Joel we meet in this book does seem to have some knowledge but at the same time it is implied that either being in a monastery has changed him more or perhaps he is not who he claims to be. | |
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Babies Ever After | |
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Babies Ever After: At the end of the novel, Toni and Jory are married and Toni is pregnant. | |
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Big Brother Worship | |
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Big Brother Worship: Averted Bart and Jory, the former heavily resenting the latter for being more favored by their mother. Cindy did look up to Bart a lot when she was young but he refused to accept her for a long, long time and she also ends up resenting him. Cindy does quite admire Jory. | |
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Shut Up, Kirk! | |
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Shut Up, Kirk!: Cathy is going off on Bart yet again about his affair with Melodie when he angrily informs her, "What I do with her is far less sinful than what you do with Chris." Cathy winces, but admits that he's right. | |
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Covers Always Lie | |
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Covers Always Lie: If you saw the cover, you'd probably think that the blonde woman in the "keyhole" image (presumably Melodie) was the main character. Cathy, the actual narrator of the book, appears in the stepback as the old woman. | |
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Friend to All Children | |
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Friend to All Children: Bart has a soft spot for his niece and nephew. | |
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Brother–Sister Incest | |
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Cathy and Chris—who have engaged in Brother–Sister Incest for years—disapprove of Bart and Melodie, for having an affair after Jory's accident. It's not exactly analogous, though, since they're Happily Married and monogamous. | |
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Married to the Job | |
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Married to the Job: Chris gets a job he loves, and he and Cathy end up doing the commuter marriage thing. Downplayed Trope, in that Chris is very clear at multiple points that he would put the job aside for the sake of his family if they wanted him too. Cathy misses him, but wants him to be happy and sees how much he loves his job, and so tells him to go ahead. | |
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Can't Tie His Tie | |
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Can't Tie His Tie: Chris ties his tie, and then promptly asks Cathy to redo it for him. | |
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THeUnfavorite | |
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The Unfavorite: Bart has still never escaped this, constantly being upstaged by his brother and adopted sister. Downplayed, as it is confirmed in (both this book and the previous) that his parents do truly love him and want the best for him. But he has a closer feel to their grandfather (Malcolm) that he is the more dangerous one, whereas Jory is closer similarly to Chris. Cathy does acknowledge that she did favor Jory and Cindy more, but it was more unintentional on her part, because his dark personality and the fact that he was clumsy and not confident as a child, though she did say that she felt pity for him and expressed her sorrow whenever he would try to deliberately hurt himself for failing, but she always did love him just as much as she did Jory and later Cindy. (Cathy does point out in the epilogue that she loves all her three children equally.) Bart was just the one less easier to be with; it's not as if his family wanted to reject him, they just did not know how to deal with him. In many ways this is a brutal but honest look at the way mental illness can impact a whole family. | |
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Sapient House | |
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Sapient House: | |
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Back from the Dead | |
| Seeds of Yesterday / int_8967e17f | comment |
Back from the Dead: Joel. He was thought to have died in a skiing accident, but has been living in an Italian monastery. However... | |
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Derailing Love Interests | |
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Derailing Love Interests: Melodie goes from a loving, devoted wife to Jory to detached and adulterous following his accident. Bart abruptly goes from a wonderful boyfriend to Toni to verbally abusive and cruel. | |
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Theme Twin Naming | |
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Theme Twin Naming: Darren and Deirdre Marquet. | |
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| Seeds of Yesterday / int_90e31482 | type |
Laser-Guided Karma | |
| Seeds of Yesterday / int_90e31482 | comment |
Laser-Guided Karma: Bart (seemingly) arranged Jory's career-ending accident, had an affair with Jory's wife, abused and slut-shamed his adopted sister, considers most women whores (including his own mother), and tried to destroy his brother's small children by instilling in them his own sick religious fanaticism. (In the movie the latter is replaced with trying to drown his kids and threatened to kill his own mother.) With no other choice left, everyone decides to do the one thing he's most afraid of: abandon him. Only Chris' accident prevents them from carrying out their plan. | |
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Rule of Symbolism | |
| Seeds of Yesterday / int_916c72b3 | comment |
Rule of Symbolism: | |
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Religious Stereotype | |
| Seeds of Yesterday / int_926425c8 | comment |
Religious Stereotype: Bart Winslow and Joel Foxworth. The former eventually breaks out of the latter's dark influence and becomes a preacher. | |
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Betty and Veronica | |
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Betty and Veronica: Jory and Bart to Melodie and later Toni. Betty and Veronica Switch: Blonde, blue-eyed Melodie looks like the "Betty", but she physically and emotionally abandons Jory after his accident and cheats on him with Bart before finally leaving him and their children for good. Brunette Toni looks like the "Veronica", but she falls in love with and marries Jory despite his paralysis. | |
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Heel Realization | |
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Heel Realization: Bart at Chris' funeral. | |
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Riddle for the Ages | |
| Seeds of Yesterday / int_96a33f11 | comment |
Riddle for the Ages: Is Joel who he says he is? Evidence is offered to both sides but nothing is ever decided! Who was playing those nasty tricks on Jory? Was it Bart or Joel? Similarly which one of them was responsible for Jory's Career-Ending Injury? It’s briefly investigated and Cathy and Chris both have their own opinions, but again the answer is never really given. | |
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"Dear John" Letter | |
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"Dear John" Letter: Melodie tells her husband she's left him via a letter. | |
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You Remind Me of X | |
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You Remind Me of X: Cindy reminds Chris of Cathy in her youth. Darren and Deirdre remind Cathy of Carrie and Cory. Chris specifically tells her not to conceptualize it that way. | |
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"Not So Different" Remark | |
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"Not So Different" Remark: Joel at one point tells Cathy that there are times she reminds him of his mother, the dreaded "Grandmother" of the first book. Cathy is floored at the idea that she "could be anything like that hard old woman." | |
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Singing Voice Dissonance | |
| Seeds of Yesterday / int_9c5ed17 | comment |
Singing Voice Dissonance: Cathy is stunned to hear Bart's singing voice. | |
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| Seeds of Yesterday / int_9d12bbc1 | type |
Foreshadowing | |
| Seeds of Yesterday / int_9d12bbc1 | comment |
Foreshadowing: | |
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The Beautiful Elite | |
| Seeds of Yesterday / int_a2484b0e | comment |
The Beautiful Elite: The whole clan is stunningly beautiful (even Bart grew out of his childhood awkwardness). The trope is, of course, played with, because of the decadence and dysfunction within the family. | |
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The Peeping Tom | |
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The Peeping Tom: Bart mentions that he checks Cindy's room before he goes to bed. Ostensibly to make sure she hasn't snuck out, but for all his complaining about her skimpy nightgowns, there's the implication that he likes seeing her like that and that this is the reason he visits. | |
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Madonna-Whore Complex | |
| Seeds of Yesterday / int_b097493c | comment |
Madonna-Whore Complex: Bart's attitude towards women, though it's mostly as the latter category. On the rare occasions that he does view a woman as a "Madonna", she inevitably says or does something that makes him view her as a "whore". Case in point: he adores Melodie, but condemns her after they begin their affair, now viewing her as a tramp because of her infidelity. As Cindy comes into her sexuality, her mother tries to encourage her to take her time—and at the very least, to not have sex under their roof. It comes from a place of love and caring—Cathy wants her daughter to be more careful and measured with her sexuality than she was at that age. But she doesn't articulate this particularly well. | |
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Death by Despair | |
| Seeds of Yesterday / int_b4c406a6 | comment |
Death by Despair: Apparently the reason for Cathy's death at the end of the novel after Chris is killed in a car accident. | |
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Berserk Button | |
| Seeds of Yesterday / int_bc74ef27 | comment |
Berserk Button: Chris tries really hard to be civil with Bart, but when Bart insults Cathy, Chris slaps him across the face. | |
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Incest Subtext | |
| Seeds of Yesterday / int_bdc453a0 | comment |
Incest Subtext: But of course! Cindy and her brothers. When Cindy first returns home, she takes one look at her brothers playing tennis and declares wow they're hot. Most of her subtext is with Bart, but she certainly remarks on Jory as well. Melodie points out Cindy Has a Type: Cindy and Jory. In a case of invokedIncestuous Casting, Jory and Cindy dance Samson and Delilah together. It's a very sexualized role, and Cathy says they do great and really sell it. After his accident, Cindy tries to cheer Jory up by assuring him that—even paralyzed—she would still want him if he wasn't her brother. Cindy and Bart, where to start... Bart and his mother. He alternates between adoring and wants to impress Cathy, and hating and resenting her. It sometimes skirts into incestuous territory. Cathy herself makes some uncomfortable observations about how hot her children are. It's one thing for a mom to acknowledge that her children have grown up to be good-looking, but Cathy goes into specifics about Bart's slim hips and long, muscular legs, Jory's well-molded dancer's butt, and Cindy's ripe young curves and jiggling breasts. | |
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| Seeds of Yesterday / int_bdf0640e | type |
You're Not My Father | |
| Seeds of Yesterday / int_bdf0640e | comment |
You're Not My Father: Bart pulls this frequently and aggressively with his Chris. Bart's biological father died before he was born, and Chris has been his stepfather since he was a toddler. He is the man who raised him, and the only father Bart can remember. Chris, for his part, unquestionably considers Bart his son, loves him, and holds out hope their relationship will improve someday. Calling Parents by Their Name: He refuses to call Chris his father, calling him simply by his name, "Uncle Chris," or nothing, not speaking to him at all. | |
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| Seeds of Yesterday / int_bec0417c | type |
Happily Married | |
| Seeds of Yesterday / int_bec0417c | comment |
Happily Married: Cathy and Chris. They aren't portrayed as having no issues, but they're a happy and stable couple despite this. | |
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Blunt "Yes" | |
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Blunt "Yes": | |
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Calling Parents by Their Name | |
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Calling Parents by Their Name: He refuses to call Chris his father, calling him simply by his name, "Uncle Chris," or nothing, not speaking to him at all. | |
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Show Within a Show | |
| Seeds of Yesterday / int_c2393191 | comment |
Show Within a Show: Jory dances in a version of Samson and Delilah. | |
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Horrible Judge of Character | |
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Horrible Judge of Character: Bart and Chris refuse to believe anything negative Cathy tells them about Joel, Bart in particular essentially believing that he's a saint providing him with spiritual guidance, when he's in fact making him worse. | |
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On the Rebound | |
| Seeds of Yesterday / int_c7853b1e | comment |
On the Rebound: Melodie does this after leaving Jory | |
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Perma-Stubble | |
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Perma-Stubble: Bart, to contribute to his Tall, Dark, and Sinister good looks. | |
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| Seeds of Yesterday / int_c972d624 | type |
Slut-Shaming | |
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Slut-Shaming: Bart to Toni. After several months of bliss and serious discussion of marriage, suddenly he's calling her dress trashy and blasting her for dancing with another man, when only moments earlier, he was complimenting how pretty she looked and had given her permission to dance with someone else. He’s deliberately ruining things and everyone knows it. | |
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| Seeds of Yesterday / int_cdad4b25 | type |
Toxic Friend Influence | |
| Seeds of Yesterday / int_cdad4b25 | comment |
Toxic Friend Influence: Joel to Bart. Cindy mentions that one evening, she, Bart, and his girlfriend Toni were having a lovely evening out until an old man who resembled Joel appeared and Bart instantly became cruel and nasty to both of them. When she leaves Foxworth Hall for good, she blasts Joel and outright tells him that she hates him for what he's done to Bart—"He could have been normal without you!"—and tells Cathy that she's genuinely afraid of the two of them when they're together, yet still sincerely believes that Bart might be okay if he can be separated from Joel. | |
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Next Sunday A.D. | |
| Seeds of Yesterday / int_ce68d46b | comment |
Next Sunday A.D.: Set in the 90s, written in the 80s. There is a particular attention paid to the electric gadgets in the restored house. | |
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Roaring Rampage of Revenge | |
| Seeds of Yesterday / int_ceec4df5 | comment |
Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Bart, after no one comes to his party, even though that was because someone sabotaged the invites. | |
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Spoiled Brat | |
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Spoiled Brat: Cindy can come off as entitled and petty. Considering how she was heavily spoiled by Cathy, Chris, and Jory, it's not a surprise. She grows out of it eventually and even forgives Bart for his mistreatment of her. | |
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Seduction as One-Upmanship: Bart seduces his sister-in-law Melodie following his brother Jory's paralyzing accident, fed up after years of being The Unfavorite and now seizing the opportunity to provide the sexual satisfaction that Jory can't. The cruel irony of this is that Jory himself has never done anything to hurt Bart or warrant this treatment. Cathy also constantly hears rumors about Bart having affairs with married women, specifically, the wives of prominent men who supposedly snubbed his Christmas party invitation, obviously as a means of revenge for doing so. | |
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Hypocrite: Cathy and Chris—who have engaged in Brother–Sister Incest for years—disapprove of Bart and Melodie, for having an affair after Jory's accident. It's not exactly analogous, though, since they're Happily Married and monogamous. Bart to Cindy. Bart cavorts with his brother's wife, other married women, and prostitutes, yet also condemns Cindy for sleeping around, to the point of nearly-constant verbal, emotional, and physical abuse. The most glaring example being when he beats up her boyfriend after catching them having sex, declaring "No sinning under my roof!" | |
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Longing Look: Cathy is worried to notice Bart repeatedly doing this to Melodie. She observes her son Jory doing this to the hired nurse Toni. | |
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Adoption Diss: Bart frequently to his adopted sister Cindy. | |
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Parents Walk In at the Worst Time: Boy, do they ever. Cathy more or less walks in on Bart and Melodie—she sees her walking out of Bart's room wearing a negligee, making it pretty obvious what's happened. Chris also admits to having seen the two making out. Later, Cathy and Bart walk in on Cindy and one of her boyfriends going at it. | |
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Everyone Can See It | |
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Everyone Can See It: Cindy takes one look at Toni and Jory and knows. The implication is less that Jory and Toni are obvious, and more that Cindy is astute. | |
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The Scapegoat | |
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The Scapegoat: Everything is always Chris's fault, as far as Bart is concerned. | |
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Throwing Off the Disability | |
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Throwing Off the Disability: Extremely downplayed. At the very end, Toni is pregnant, meaning Jory can have sex again—his dick is not paralyzed! Which is something that, at the time of the accident, Chris said was probably would become possible with enough healing and physical therapy. | |
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Mama Bear | |
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Mama Bear: Shut the hell up about Cathy's kids and grandkids, Joel. | |
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Cindy and her brothers. When Cindy first returns home, she takes one look at her brothers playing tennis and declares wow they're hot. Most of her subtext is with Bart, but she certainly remarks on Jory as well. Melodie points out Cindy Has a Type: Cindy and Jory. In a case of invokedIncestuous Casting, Jory and Cindy dance Samson and Delilah together. It's a very sexualized role, and Cathy says they do great and really sell it. After his accident, Cindy tries to cheer Jory up by assuring him that—even paralyzed—she would still want him if he wasn't her brother. Cindy and Bart, where to start... | |
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Settle for Sibling | |
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Settle for Sibling: Bart realizes this about his relationship with Melodie. Later, he accuses Toni of this when she reveals that she and Jory are engaged, but she sets him straight and tells him that if anything, she's trading up. | |
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Empathic Environment | |
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Empathic Environment: As Cathy and Chris approach the front door of the newly restored Foxworth Hall, she takes a moment to admire how beautiful the house looks in the sun compared to its dark history. No sooner does she have this thought than the sky goes dark, and a thunderstorm so strong its winds flatten the flowerbeds rolls out of nowhere. Inverted when Cathy notes how beautiful the weather is the day of Chris' funeral. | |
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Calling the Old Man Out | |
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Calling the Old Man Out: Cindy says this, almost verbatim, when she blesses out Joel before leaving Foxworth Hall forever: | |
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Creepy Housekeeper | |
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Creepy Housekeeper: Joel, who may or may not be Corinne's brother, is always whispering in Bart's ear. | |
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Evil Old Folks | |
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Evil Old Folks: Joel, in spades. | |
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Parental Hypocrisy | |
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Parental Hypocrisy: Cathy doesn't want Cindy to behave the same way she behaved when she was Cindy's age. Justified Trope. Cathy herself had lots of ill-advised sex in her youth, which—now that she's in her 50s—she looks back upon with different eyes. Cathy warns her daughter to take it slow with sex out of a desire to protect her, and not see Cindy make the same mistakes she herself did. But Cathy doesn't articulate it very well at first, so it often comes across as surface-level slut shaming. | |
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Suspiciously Similar Substitute | |
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Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Joel to John from the previous novel. An evil, creepy old man who basically brainwashes Bart into his way of thinking, namely that Sex Is Evil and takes a sick, self-righteous pleasure in others misfortunes and misery. Case in point, he preaches that God punished Jory for "glorifying his body" (being a ballet dancer) by paralyzing him and making his wife leave him. | |
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Together in Death | |
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Together in Death: Aside from being unwilling to go on without Chris, Cathy's final words in a letter left to Bart indicates that she's ready to be reunited with everyone from her family who has already passed away—Cory, Carrie, their father. | |
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The Grand Hunt | |
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The Grand Hunt: Discussed, although it never actually happens. | |
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