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The Living Manikins

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The Living Manikins	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })"The Living Manikins" is a chaptered Short Story by David Wright O'Brien that was originally published in the February 1942 issue of Fantastic Adventures. It dabbles in Magic Realism pulled towards absurdity, while also serving as a lighthearted allegory for class struggles. The protagonist, Hugo Hempsted, is an unappreciated salesclerk who finds himself trying to pull rank on the department store's manikins when they come to life and trying to protect the very order he decried just an hour earlier during a demeaning meeting. The purpose of the allegory is to highlight, not to provide answers, as the Happy Ending relies on the manikins' life becoming undone.In the wee hours of the morning, the salesclerk Hugo Hempsted is in a meeting about disappointing sales with the department store's owner, Napoleon B. Dribble. Dribble, in an act of showing off his authority, sends Hugo to the store to fetch some papers for him. Hugo startles Judy Carmody, the daughter of the night watchman. Because her father's sick, Judy's secretly taken his place for the night, but being untrained her first instinct upon noticing an intruder is to turn on the lights. This has the peculiar and singular effect of bringing all of the department store's manikins to life. Said manikins have bigger ambitions than standing still, leading to utter chaos a mere two hours before opening. At first Judy and Hugo try to compromise with the manikins, but this doesn't work out. Then Judy proposes they turn off the lights, since the manikins came to life when the lights came on. Hugo takes the risk of fiddling with controls neither understand and the plan works out just as they hoped: the manikins go back to being manikins. Although there's no time to place them back, this is for the better because Dribble loves the new, daring displays and commends Hugo for his initiative.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })
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The Living Manikins / int_1b465242	comment	Conditioned to Accept Horror: Judy is surprised by the manikins being alive, but doesn't let it get to her like Hugo does. The reasoning behind her ready acceptance of living manikins is that her grandfather was a smart man and he believed in leprechauns.
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The Living Manikins / int_9139687c	comment	Hates Baths: The police officer manikin hates baths and requests to have less than one a month. His request isn't granted, nor are any of his others, which provokes him to lash the crowd apart with his nightstick.
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The Living Manikins / int_fb1fb07f	comment	Doomy Dooms of Doom: The sixth chapter is "The Switch of Doom". Like the rest of the story, it's meant humoristically. The switch itself is not one, but a collection, and its relation to "doom" is more about that it is the last solution the protagonists have to deal with the manikins than that they're afraid they get killed by the charge it might release.
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