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The Blind Assassin

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The Blind Assassin	comment	Margaret Atwood's 2000 novel is told from the point of view of Iris Chase Griffen, an octogenarian who chooses to record her life story after discovering that she's suffering from a potentially fatal heart disease. In particular, Iris details her relationship with her younger sister, Laura — who committed suicide in 1945, aged twenty-five, by driving a car off a bridge — and the publicity surrounding Laura's posthumously published novel, The Blind Assassin.Winner of the 2000 Booker prize.
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The Blind Assassin / int_12b1f5f3	type	No Such Thing as Bad Publicity
The Blind Assassin / int_12b1f5f3	comment	No Such Thing as Bad Publicity: In-universe example. Iris notes that The Blind Assassin, while it got a few good reviews, actually didn't make a splash until Port Ticonderoga's Moral Guardians started denouncing it.
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The Blind Assassin / int_197b546a	type	Scarpia Ultimatum
The Blind Assassin / int_197b546a	comment	Scarpia Ultimatum: Richard threatens to get Alex Thomas arrested if Laura doesn't have sex with him. It's possible that his threat was an empty one (depending on whether or not you choose to believe Callie's denials that she informed on Alex], but it worked.
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The Blind Assassin / int_1a09b4f9	type	The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry
The Blind Assassin / int_1a09b4f9	comment	The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry: Averted. Iris appears to be the practical sister and Laura the beautiful, strange one. There's friction between both of them, but:
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The Blind Assassin / int_234fa9ba	type	Mayâ€“December Romance
The Blind Assassin / int_234fa9ba	comment	May–December Romance: Iris marries mid-thirties Richard when she's only eighteen. Despite Iris's suspicions, ultimately averted by Alex Thomas, who did not pursue a teenage Laura.
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The Blind Assassin / int_38d02d44	type	Batman Gambit
The Blind Assassin / int_38d02d44	comment	Batman Gambit: When creepy tutor Mr. Erskine starts molesting Laura, she goes to Iris and Reenie, who are both pretty sure he'll be able to convince the girls' father that Laura made it all up if they tell the truth. So Reenie contrives to "find" some dirty pictures under his bed (Iris notes that sure, they might genuinely have been there, but Reenie has a cousin who smuggles pornography who'd help her out), and then righteously presents the evidence to Mr. Chase in front of a huge crowd of factory workers, ensuring that he has to fire Erskine.
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The Blind Assassin / int_3bc88a7f	type	Foregone Conclusion
The Blind Assassin / int_3bc88a7f	comment	Foregone Conclusion: One of the first scenes is a newspaper article about Laura's death. The rest of the novel is taken up by how the characters got to that point.
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The Blind Assassin / int_3c7d0418	type	Doom Magnet
The Blind Assassin / int_3c7d0418	comment	Doom Magnet: While Iris's life hasn't exactly been happy, the tendency of people around her to suffer at least as badly as she does and, ultimately, die young as well, does not go unnoticed, by herself or other people. Specifically, a lot of people in her life seem to have committed suicide, though for various different reasons: Laura, her father, her husband Richard and her daughter Aimee are all at least believed to have taken their own lives.
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The Blind Assassin / int_3ffce9c2	type	Family Relationship Switcheroo
The Blind Assassin / int_3ffce9c2	comment	Family Relationship Switcheroo: Aimee suspects this had happened, insisting that Laura was her real mother, and Iris had cruelly insisted on adopting the baby, rather than risk scandal. Aimee is wrong, however.
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The Blind Assassin / int_41271766	type	Happily Ever After
The Blind Assassin / int_41271766	comment	Happily Ever After: The woman says that the two lovers go into the mountains and discover the stories about hungry ghosts and wolves are just rumors spread to hide a peaceful society of escaped slaves, and they settle down. The man suggests the opposite.
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The Blind Assassin / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
The Blind Assassin / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: Well, let's see: Laura commits suicide after Richard raped her and she discovered that what she told herself to deal with it was probably a lie, Iris has lost both her daughter and granddaughter to her terrible sister-in-law and her heart gives out, and Iris and Alex were never able to be together like they planned. Even so, Iris holds out hope that her granddaughter Sabrina will find her writings and discover the truth.
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The Blind Assassin / int_50b9282e	type	Blind Weaponmaster
The Blind Assassin / int_50b9282e	comment	Blind Weaponmaster: The blind assassin.
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The Blind Assassin / int_6a1cbf28	type	Rebellious Princess
The Blind Assassin / int_6a1cbf28	comment	Rebellious Princess: Laura has shades of this. She would rather scrape by than live under Richard's thumb. Decades later, Sabrina rebels against her rich guardian, Winifred, eventually leaving to travel the world.
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The Blind Assassin / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
The Blind Assassin / int_6b2b3b59	comment	The Reveal: Iris reveals that she wrote the book, and only put Laura's name on it, although she feels Laura was a spiritual collaborator. Not only that, but she had the affair with Alex Thomas, and Aimee is his.
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The Blind Assassin / int_6ebb6b43	type	Died During Production
The Blind Assassin / int_6ebb6b43	comment	Died During Production: In-universe, the man is never able to finish either his pulp serial or the stories he was telling the woman because he's killed in action.
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The Blind Assassin / int_80621707	type	Arranged Marriage
The Blind Assassin / int_80621707	comment	Arranged Marriage: Iris's father arranges her marriage to Richard in the hopes that it will save the family company and ensure a better future for at least one of his daughters. His plan fails in every possible sense: the company still goes under (with Richard making a point of giving it a final push, before taking what's left and absorbing it into his own business empire), and both his daughters suffer years of psychological, physical and sexual abuse at the hands of Richard and his sister.
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The Blind Assassin / int_8077793f	type	Open Secret
The Blind Assassin / int_8077793f	comment	Open Secret: Despite its characters not being named, The Blind Assassin causes a scandal as it is clearly autobiographical.
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The Blind Assassin / int_83cef301	type	Right for the Wrong Reasons
The Blind Assassin / int_83cef301	comment	Right for the Wrong Reasons: Aimee is correct that she is not actually a Griffen, but makes the wrong conclusions about why based on the book.
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The Blind Assassin / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
The Blind Assassin / int_8c41d6e9	comment	Nameless Narrative: The Blind Assassin does not name the woman or the pulp fiction writer, preferring to use pronouns.
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The Blind Assassin / int_91c001	type	Cute Mute
The Blind Assassin / int_91c001	comment	Cute Mute: In the nested story, "The Blind Assassin," the city of Sakiel-Norn's sacrificial girls have their tongues cut out the night before their deaths. The titular character is supposed to kill one of these mute girls, but falls in love with her instead.
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The Blind Assassin / int_a7aef9ff	type	Obfuscating Stupidity
The Blind Assassin / int_a7aef9ff	comment	Obfuscating Stupidity: Iris learns to act much less competent than she actually is to keep Winifred off her back.
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The Blind Assassin / int_a90fff3	type	Based on a True Story
The Blind Assassin / int_a90fff3	comment	Based on a True Story: Everyone assumes it's a veiled autobiography. It is, but it's about Iris, not Laura.
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The Blind Assassin / int_bb0b2739	comment	Nested Story: The book's title refers to Laura's novel, published posthumously by Iris. The Blind Assassin tells the story of an unnamed woman's affair with a pulp sci-fi writer who would tell stories to her in bed, making this a case of stories within a story within a story.
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The Blind Assassin / int_d46ddfa2	type	CloudCuckooLander
The Blind Assassin / int_d46ddfa2	comment	Cloud Cuckoolander: Laura often baffles those around her. As Winifred remarks, "You have to admit, she's a little odd."
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The Blind Assassin / int_e4d9e13b	type	Mars Needs Women
The Blind Assassin / int_e4d9e13b	comment	Mars Needs Women: The Lizard Men of Xenor want to kidnap Earth women.
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The Blind Assassin / int_e794cb54	type	Powered by a Forsaken Child
The Blind Assassin / int_e794cb54	comment	Powered by a Forsaken Child: The beautiful carpets of Sakiel-Norn, which have made the upper class very rich, are woven by children. This work inevitably blinds them.
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The Blind Assassin / int_e9f7b815	type	Creepy Housekeeper
The Blind Assassin / int_e9f7b815	comment	Creepy Housekeeper: Even though she's a relative and not a servant, Richard's sister Winifred manages to be very reminiscent of Mrs Danvers.
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The Blind Assassin / int_feac0f90	type	Ephebophile
The Blind Assassin / int_feac0f90	comment	Ephebophile: Richard, who rapes his teenage sister-in-law. Iris married him at eighteen and later realizes that she was nearly too old for him, at the time.
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