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The Secret History

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The Secret History	comment	The Secret History was Donna Tartt's first novel, released in 1992."I hope we're all ready to leave the phenomenal world, and enter into the sublime?" So says Julian Morrow, the charismatic and eccentric Classics professor at Hampden College. The six students whom he accepts into his classes receive an education apart from any other at the college: in studying Latin and Greek, they mimic an ancient Athenian way of thinking and living. They are: Henry Winter, the linguistic genius who declares that six men could capture the town of Hampden Charles and Camilla Macaulay, the friendly, enigmatic twins Francis Abernathy, who looks like a cross between a student prince and Jack the Ripper Bunny Corcoran, genteel, cheerful and bigoted Richard Papen, the story's First-Person Peripheral Narrator, a New Transfer Student who, through a series of chance encounters, finds himself in the midst of this strange, mesmerizing group.Their search for the sublime leads them, inevitably, to a collision with the real world. Left to deal with the consequences of an accidental murder, the group slowly starts to plan a deliberate one.If you want to know where the film rights to The Secret History are, they have apparently been in Development Hell for about two decades.Not related to Secret Histories by Simon R. Green; The Secret History, a French comic book by Jean-Pierre PÃ©cau; or the Secret History by Procopiusnote A rather nasty and spectacularly exaggerated tell-all account of the Byzantine Empire during the reign of Emperor Justinian(after which all of these are directly or indirectly named).
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The Secret History / int_116a648e	type	Half-Identical Twins
The Secret History / int_116a648e	comment	Half-Identical Twins: Charles and Camilla initially appear to conform to this trope. As the plot unravels and their personality differences become more apparent they lose their united front (see Twin Desynch).
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The Secret History / int_1282bf4f	type	No Celebrities Were Harmed
The Secret History / int_1282bf4f	comment	No Celebrities Were Harmed: Julian, Henry, and Bunny were all based on people Donna knew at Bennington College. (See Trivia page for more on that.) The Isrami royal family, a Fantasy Counterpart Culture version of Iran's Pahlavi Dynasty. Georges Laforgue, Richard's first academic advisor, is a dead ringer for Michel Foucault, with similar views on academia.
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The Secret History / int_141a6acb	type	Madness Mantra
The Secret History / int_141a6acb	comment	Madness Mantra: To control his mounting dread after becoming an accessory to Bunny's murder, Richard repeats 'Nihil sub sole novum' (Latin for 'Nothing under the sun is new'). The phrase shows up whenever his paranoia at being arrested sets in.
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The Secret History / int_1869b4b1	type	Unreliable Narrator
The Secret History / int_1869b4b1	comment	Unreliable Narrator: Richard's admiration and affection for the murder clique (though mostly Henry and Camilla) results in a picture of each of them that may not be entirely representative of who they truly are.
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The Secret History / int_187228e0	type	Bridal Carry
The Secret History / int_187228e0	comment	Bridal Carry: Henry gets to do one of these after Camilla steps on a piece of glass in the lake. Lovingly described.
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The Secret History / int_1c571556	type	The Tease
The Secret History / int_1c571556	comment	The Tease: The night Camilla comes home from a date with Cloke Rayburn she gives Richard a light kiss, even though she isn't interested in him. Discussed Trope when, in a conversation with Richard, Francis accuses the twins both of enjoying leading people on.
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The Secret History / int_1e4a1e0e	type	I Owe You My Life
The Secret History / int_1e4a1e0e	comment	I Owe You My Life: Downplayed Trope. Richard never exactly says he owes Henry his life, but Henry does show up and save Richard when he's on the brink of death. He stays beside him in the hospital, nurses him back to health, brings him to his house to recuperate, gives him his own bed. After this, Richard is far more inclined to side with Henry than Bunny.
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The Secret History / int_1eb8c95b	type	That Didn't Happen
The Secret History / int_1eb8c95b	comment	That Didn't Happen: Charles and Francis. Also Richard and Francis. Oh man, what a night.
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The Secret History / int_1f6983f7	type	Ambiguous Situation
The Secret History / int_1f6983f7	comment	Ambiguous Situation: What went down during the bacchanal? How did the farmer die? The clique's memories of the night are very patchy since they were high off their asses. Many theories center around some variation of animal involvement.
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The Secret History / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Secret History / int_1f799027	comment	Obstructive Bureaucrat: Georges Laforgue is a stuffy academic administrator who is hesitant to let Richard pursue his goals.
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The Secret History / int_20a14df0	type	Wrong Genre Savvy
The Secret History / int_20a14df0	comment	Wrong Genre Savvy: The entire clique want their lives to be wild and epic, taking inspiration from the classics. It doesn't go over too well. By the end of the novel, Richard has realised — much too late — that the clique's story isn't that of an epic... it's a Greek tragedy.
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The Secret History / int_21cf9301	type	Family of Choice
The Secret History / int_21cf9301	comment	Family of Choice: Charles at one point suggests that after graduation they could all live together in the country house (except for Bunny, who would just come up on weekends). It's an arrested development fantasy, imagining that things could continue exactly as they are now for the rest of their lives. Richard is absolutely enamored with the idea. Subverted Trope in that it doesn't work out. Also a Deconstructed Trope—no matter how much you adore your friend group right now, without the obligations of kinship to hold you together when times get tough, it won't last. Also Richard, you've known this group for all of a few months at this point, and they don't even trust you enough to invite you to their orgies. This is premature.
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The Secret History / int_21d47bb7	type	Nouveau Riche
The Secret History / int_21d47bb7	comment	Nouveau Riche: The Corcorans come from a background comparable to that of new-rich families like the Trumps, rather than older and more established families; this is often suggested to be at the root of Bunny's boorish expressions of insecurity.
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The Secret History / int_294ed981	type	Bilingual Bonus
The Secret History / int_294ed981	comment	Bilingual Bonus: Untranslated passages and phrases appear in Latin, Greek, French, and German. The first time Richard talks to Francis, Francis propositions him saying, "Cubitum eamus?" which in Latin means, roughly, "Shall we go to bed together?" Richard, who has only studied Greek, doesn't get it. Henry pulls a piece of glass out of Camilla's foot and declares, "Consummatum est" — Latin for "It is done." They use "cuniculus molestus" — Latin for "annoying rabbit" — as a code name for Bunny. In Greek, "mÃ©li" means "honey". This conversation with Henry.
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The Secret History / int_2a015a74	type	Beauty Equals Goodness
The Secret History / int_2a015a74	comment	Beauty Equals Goodness: Discussed Trope by Francis, who talks about how its not true. He talking about Charles in this instance.
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The Secret History / int_2b2abf36	type	Rich in Dollars, Poor in Sense
The Secret History / int_2b2abf36	comment	Rich in Dollars, Poor in Sense: Most of the main cast are very well-off financially, not needing to work, but have little to no idea of what's going on in the world around them.
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The Secret History / int_2bdae2ae	type	Awesome, but Impractical
The Secret History / int_2bdae2ae	comment	Awesome, but Impractical: A somewhat cynically comic point is made a few times about how the classics clique spend thousands on shiny brand-name fountain pens and sleek designer clothes. While the evident glamour of these items is attractive to both Richard and the reader, the characters' attitudes toward these expensive items (along with their alternate scorn or bewilderment at cheaper substitutes) is also subtly mocked throughout the book.
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The Secret History / int_2bf993ad	type	Secret Relationship
The Secret History / int_2bf993ad	comment	Secret Relationship: Camilla has one is with her own brother Charles, and another (hinted out throughout the novel) with Henry. Charles is hooking up with both Camilla and Francis on the down-low.
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The Secret History / int_30c40e9a	type	Deconstructor Fleet
The Secret History / int_30c40e9a	comment	Deconstructor Fleet: The book builds up a beautiful, romanticized ideal of friendship and academia (only sometimes marred by Bunny's politically incorrect antics), then absolutely rips it to shreds.
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The Secret History / int_33f1c576	type	Not Helping Your Case
The Secret History / int_33f1c576	comment	Not Helping Your Case: Cloke's testimony to the police brings him under a lot of suspicion.
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The Secret History / int_383fe1b8	type	Embarrassing Old Photo
The Secret History / int_383fe1b8	comment	Embarrassing Old Photo: Richard destroys the only photo of his mother that he owns, for fear that Bunny will see it and realize that Richard grew up relatively poor.
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The Secret History / int_38b48685	type	Born in the Wrong Century
The Secret History / int_38b48685	comment	Born in the Wrong Century: Modern day college is not 5th century Athens, however the characters might wish it were. Most of the main cast are also entrenched in the late nineteenth or early twentieth century as far as their lifestyle is concerned, though this comes across more than anything as an result of their upper-class upbringing.
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The Secret History / int_38d02d44	type	Batman Gambit
The Secret History / int_38d02d44	comment	Batman Gambit: No one really understands Henry's many, convoluted plots. If you think you've reached the bottom, you've only scratched the surface.
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The Secret History / int_3b49c783	type	The Proud Elite
The Secret History / int_3b49c783	comment	The Proud Elite: A few of the characters, but most notably Julian—although he downplays it and is thus the subject of much rumor and speculation.
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The Secret History / int_3e157a10	type	Twincest
The Secret History / int_3e157a10	comment	Twincest: Charles and Camilla. It is, as Bunny calls it, "kinda classical", an allusion to the Divine Incest of Classical Mythology. This is one of multiple instances (the others being the bacchanal and the rumor of Lover and Beloved with Julian) where the Classics students engage in ancient-inspire sex that's not approved of in the modern day. It's never clear just how consensual it is on Camilla's part.
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The Secret History / int_3f0b2f50	type	Make It Look Like an Accident
The Secret History / int_3f0b2f50	comment	Make It Look Like an Accident: Henry deliberately plans Bunny's death to look like this.
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The Secret History / int_3f1a4583	type	Single Sex Offspring
The Secret History / int_3f1a4583	comment	Single Sex Offspring: The Corcoran family has 5 sons — Teddy, Hugh, Patrick, Brady, and Bunny.
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The Secret History / int_41d402e5	type	FourSeasons
The Secret History / int_41d402e5	comment	Four Seasons: The rest of the clique as observed by Richard. Notably, each character has an establishing or significant moment in the novel that is set during their corresponding season. Henry Winter, with his cold, stern demeanor corresponds to... winter (obviously). Camilla and Charles—who are from a warm area, have a (deceptively) breezy attitude, and enjoy picturesque nature treks—are associated with the idea of Spring. Bunny's carelessly glib temperament and gauche character correspond to Summer. Francis' hair color, wardrobe, and general attitude (including work ethic and hobbies) are a clear match for Autumn.
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The Secret History / int_447d9e50	type	Xanatos Speed Chess
The Secret History / int_447d9e50	comment	Xanatos Speed Chess: Organized by Henry, of course.
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The Secret History / int_44fc28e8	type	Honor Before Reason
The Secret History / int_44fc28e8	comment	Honor Before Reason: Rather than maintain a sense of loyalty to his peers, Bunny stupidly threatens to reveal the group's secret. It doesn't go too well. This trope could apply to Francis as well, for the exact opposite reason—he stays quiet even when things have gotten ridiculously bad.
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The Secret History / int_4523420b	type	Love Dodecahedron
The Secret History / int_4523420b	comment	Love Dodecahedron: The friend group is variously into each other, which generally is a destabilizing force. Richard, Henry, and Charles all want Camilla. Charles sleeps with Francis repeatedly but refuses to acknowledge it afterwards. Francis makes a couple passes at Richard. Camilla implies that she refused to sleep with Bunny. And even when it's not overly romantic, there's a Pseudo-Romantic Friendship edge to most of the relationships. Richard describes all of them (save Bunny) in the romanticized manner of a crush.
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The Secret History / int_4604fd4d	type	Worthy Opponent
The Secret History / int_4604fd4d	comment	Worthy Opponent: Played for Laughs. Julian doesn't like anything Judeo-Christian, but makes an offhand mention that he considers the Catholic Church a worthy opponent.
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The Secret History / int_47e9e5c6	type	Smart People Know Latin
The Secret History / int_47e9e5c6	comment	Smart People Know Latin: They're all Classics students studying Ancient Greek. Within that, though, it's an Exaggerated Trope with Henry. He writes his diary in Latin. He converses (apparently fluently) with Julian in Greek.
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The Secret History / int_49d59be9	type	Scenery Porn
The Secret History / int_49d59be9	comment	Scenery Porn: Richard is as in love with the physical campus as he is with his friend group, and he describes it lavishly. It's hard not to imagine the campus and the surrounding area as being exactly◊ like◊ this◊.
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The Secret History / int_49f20c6a	type	Gory Discretion Shot
The Secret History / int_49f20c6a	comment	Gory Discretion Shot: Bunny's actual murder — both in the prologue and at the end of book one — goes from Henry greeting Bunny saying, "Why, looking for new ferns," to the clique leaving the scene of the crime. Actually pushing him, and the fall, are omitted. It's Lampshaded, and Richard Converses about an autobiography of a serial killer which does the same thing. A few details leak through at other moments, though. When Bunny is bullying Camilla and their conviction to do this building, Richard thinks about how dramatically, how Slow-Motion Fall, Bunny's fall looked. At Bunny's funeral when Henry is a pallbearer, Richard thinks about how Henry went down to check Bunny's neck really was broken. At the funeral when Camilla is fighting with her umbrella, he thinks about how she'd climbed down with Henry to check.
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The Secret History / int_4e11940e	type	Mythical Motifs
The Secret History / int_4e11940e	comment	Mythical Motifs: Downplayed Trope. The twins have a slight Apollo-and-Artemis/Diana thing. Being twins, for one. Bunny says Camilla looks like the statue of Diana at his father's club. Their blondness and paleness, for gods of luminous things. Apollo is generally characterized as friendly, while Artemis is more aloof.
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The Secret History / int_501411f1	type	Experimented in College
The Secret History / int_501411f1	comment	Experimented in College: In spite of his common refrain of Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?, Richard is not only fascinated to an extent with same sex attraction but also occasionally becomes slightly more intimate than expected with some of his male friends in the classics group, which can be interpreted either as this or being Ambiguously Bi.
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The Secret History / int_50b9b3d0	type	Crazy Jealous Guy
The Secret History / int_50b9b3d0	comment	Crazy Jealous Guy: We hear it from Francis, who's an Unreliable Expositor, but he says Charles is extremely possessive of his sister Camilla due to their incestuous relationship. This jealousy did not play nice during the orgy they all had together. Charles forbids her from having other relationships. As for evidence outside of Francis's allegation, this is implied to be the reason why Camilla keeps her relationship with Henry a secret. After Bunny's murder drives Camilla and Henry closer together and Camilla is forced to reveal some things such as her secret phone code with Henry, Charles becomes violent and begins torturing Camilla.
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The Secret History / int_52b517e7	type	Culturally Religious
The Secret History / int_52b517e7	comment	Culturally Religious: Henry, Francis, and the twins were all raised Catholic, while Bunny comes from a White Anglo-Saxon Protestant background, and Richard has no religious background at all. None of the clique are religious these days — they're irreverent college students for one, and also being tutored by a man who's trying to impress pagan sensibilities upon them. Nonetheless, the Catholics have enough allegiance to their childhood religion that Bunny's anti-Catholic tirades get under their skin. Where it really shows, though, is the aesthetics. They all have the aesthetics of their religious upbringings stamped into them. The dark academia aesthetic is very Catholic — old, decadent, dramatic — and the Catholic kids are the real core of the clique, the truly aesthetic ones. Bunny is aesthetically very Protestant, and that clashes with the group.
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The Secret History / int_55180ce	type	Snow Means Death
The Secret History / int_55180ce	comment	Snow Means Death: There's an unseasonable April snow just after Bunny's death.
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The Secret History / int_55232afa	type	Politically Incorrect Hero
The Secret History / int_55232afa	comment	Politically Incorrect Hero: While most of the characters are implicitly classist (heck, the book is even assigned in college sociology classes because of it), Bunny (who makes mean comments about homosexuals, females, Catholics, Jews, Italians, and the lower-income over the course of the story) really takes the cake. Julian argues that everyone is classist and that it's better to be openly classist than hypocritically so.
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The Secret History / int_562abd51	type	Let's Get Dangerous!
The Secret History / int_562abd51	comment	Let's Get Dangerous!: Francis is not at all a physical badass — he's an effete, nervous hypochondriac — but when Charles shows up with a gun and tries to shoot Henry at the end of the novel, his quick thinking (throwing a glass of wine at Charles to distract him) enables Henry to get the gun off Charles without taking a bullet. Sadly, it's not enough to prevent Richard from getting shot, albeit non-lethally.
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The Secret History / int_56d5b88f	type	Divided We Fall
The Secret History / int_56d5b88f	comment	Divided We Fall: Henry's last-minute Heroic Sacrifice is the only reason their infighting doesn't get them caught. Of course, Henry had no small hand in that.
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The Secret History / int_57d43e40	type	Fantasy Counterpart Culture
The Secret History / int_57d43e40	comment	The Isrami royal family, a Fantasy Counterpart Culture version of Iran's Pahlavi Dynasty.
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The Secret History / int_581f6468	type	Hero of Another Story
The Secret History / int_581f6468	comment	Hero of Another Story: It's easy to imagine the FBI investigators, Davenport and Sciola, as the mismatched heroes of a case-of-the-week cop show with one episode about the seedy underbelly of a placid liberal-arts campus.
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The Secret History / int_59788b2c	type	Hiding Behind the Language Barrier
The Secret History / int_59788b2c	comment	Hiding Behind the Language Barrier: In a thematic sense, learning a living language is expansive, it allows you to talk to more people, while learning a dead language allows you to be insular with a small group of people. The whole clique has studied Latin with Julian, except for Richard, who only knows Greek. When Richard looks back at the time when his friends were planning the bacchanal and excluding him from it, he remembers them sometimes making "asides in Greek or even Latin which I was well aware were meant to go over my head." In the aftermath of Bunny's death, Richard takes to hanging out with Judy and her friends. Francis comes by and tries to gossip with Richard about the investigation and the Corcoran family in front of them in Ancient Greek. Since it's a dead language, Ancient Greek class is mostly concerned with formal literature. (In contrast, Spanish class is much more interested in teaching you how to converse casually about day-to-day things.) Constrained by the Ancient Greek vocabulary they know, their conversation has an odd poetic slant.
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The Secret History / int_5ce2ab52	type	Police Psychic
The Secret History / int_5ce2ab52	comment	Police Psychic: The police bring in a psychic to investigate Bunny's murder. She's a young woman who got a shock from jumper cables, was in a 3-week coma, and awoke with the power to know things. She's helped the police with a few prior cases. Skeptic Richard thinks nothing of it, but superstitious Henry is nervous she'll figure it out — but also intrigued and really wishes he could meet and talk to her.
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The Secret History / int_5d41eb9	type	Figure It Out Yourself
The Secret History / int_5d41eb9	comment	Figure It Out Yourself
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The Secret History / int_5d576f8c	type	Death Is Such an Odd Thing
The Secret History / int_5d576f8c	comment	Death Is Such an Odd Thing: That feeling never really goes away, and it contributes to the general Freak Out.
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The Secret History / int_5d6a4e3f	type	Twin Desynch
The Secret History / int_5d6a4e3f	comment	Twin Desynch: Richard initially introduces Charles and Camilla as Half-Identical Twins. At the about 2/3 mark in book, one of the detectives comments that they don't look that alike.
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The Secret History / int_5d753b19	type	The Smurfette Principle
The Secret History / int_5d753b19	comment	The Smurfette Principle: Camilla is the only girl is a group with 5 boys. Logistically speaking this needn't mean anything — the boys are all Ambiguously Bi, and at least 3 of the 5 have been known to get with each other after some fashion. But symbolically she is the central love interest for most of them.
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The Secret History / int_5e260ea6	type	Conveniently an Orphan
The Secret History / int_5e260ea6	comment	Conveniently an Orphan: The twins are orphans, and Richard is jealous of them for this. He thinks being an orphan is a very sexy backstory, far better than his own bland parents.
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The Secret History / int_643659d4	type	Spit Take
The Secret History / int_643659d4	comment	Spit Take: A weird cigarette variation.
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The Secret History / int_65acf9db	type	He Knows Too Much
The Secret History / int_65acf9db	comment	He Knows Too Much: The reason for Bunny's murder.
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The Secret History / int_6627e429	type	Children Are a Waste
The Secret History / int_6627e429	comment	Children Are a Waste: Bunny is the only one who mentions wanting kids — 8 at that — and his friends view this as terribly lowbrow of him.
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The Secret History / int_67a90462	type	Experimental Archeology
The Secret History / int_67a90462	comment	Experimental Archeology: Henry frames the bacchanal as experimental archaeology when he tells Richard about it.
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The Secret History / int_6b3c357e	type	Ivy League for Everyone
The Secret History / int_6b3c357e	comment	Ivy League for Everyone: Lampshaded and subverted when Bunny asks if Richard's parents were "Ivy League material".
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The Secret History / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
The Secret History / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Charles and Camilla of The British Royal Family, who were widely speculated to be having an affair before it was finally confirmed. Word of God is that Camilla is named after Camilla the warrior maiden in The Aeneid. Henry Winter maintains a chilly disposition throughout the story. Julian Morrow is named for the Roman emperor Julian, known for his heterodox views on religion.
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The Secret History / int_6ca72c26	type	All Take and No Give
The Secret History / int_6ca72c26	comment	All Take and No Give: Bunny is like this with his friends: he frequently asks for money without ever intending to pay it back and doesn't really give anything in return. Charles takes advantage of the fact that Francis is deeply in love with him in order to use him for sex, though refuses to acknowledge either him or their relationship.
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The Secret History / int_6d892421	type	Teacher/Student Romance
The Secret History / int_6d892421	comment	Teacher/Student Romance: Most characters end the story believing Julian had an inappropriate romance with his royal middle eastern tutee. Earlier into the story, Georges Laforgue openly suspects him of pederasty when sharing gossip about him with Richard.
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The Secret History / int_6e70b12b	type	Nominal Importance
The Secret History / int_6e70b12b	comment	Nominal Importance: Played with. The farmer's name is Harry Ray McRee, as seen in a newspaper article reporting on his death. The clique never use this name. They continue to refer to him as "the farmer" because they don't care about him much.
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The Secret History / int_6fdd991c	type	Overt Operative
The Secret History / int_6fdd991c	comment	Overt Operative: Rumored and discussed—some of the hearsay about Julian has him away from the country on government business, with varying degrees of clarity about the purpose of it.
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The Secret History / int_7046be0a	type	Shopping Montage
The Secret History / int_7046be0a	comment	Shopping Montage: Parodied. After his first encounter with the classics clique at the library, but before he goes to his audition with Julian, Richard goes on a shopping spree. It's clear that his goal is The Makeover, turning himself into one of them. The way it actually occurs is less glamorous and more silly. First he lies to his employer to get money. Then he goes shopping at a thrift store. Then he's so thrilled and overwhelmed by it all that he goes directly home.
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The Secret History / int_71105dfc	type	Everybody Smokes
The Secret History / int_71105dfc	comment	Everybody Smokes: It's a liberal arts college in the 80s, and smoking is ubiquitous. Henry and Francis smoke constantly. The twins smoke as well, although theirs is narratively mentioned less often. Only Richard and Bunny don't smoke, and this is something the other clique members remark upon, one more detail to underline their outsider status. But this actually just means they don't smoke habitually, not that they don't smoke at all. Richard smokes at parties. Bunny doesn't generally smoke because he was a high-school athlete, but he nonetheless has a cigar when he goes out to lunch with Richard. The fact that neither of them begins smoking habitually to fit in with the group, though, is slightly surprising and a deviation from Smoking Is Glamorous.
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The Secret History / int_71cc4b5a	type	Descent into Addiction
The Secret History / int_71cc4b5a	comment	Descent into Addiction: Charles into alcoholism.
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The Secret History / int_722b3319	type	Camp Gay
The Secret History / int_722b3319	comment	Camp Gay: Francis. It's played straight in terms of his appearance (heck, he's even described as looking like Alfred Lord Douglas aka Oscar Wilde's boyfriend!) but downplayed with regards to his personality.
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The Secret History / int_72c848cc	type	Fair-Weather Mentor
The Secret History / int_72c848cc	comment	Fair-Weather Mentor: Julian; Richard notes even early on that he only sees in the Greek students what he wants to see, and doesn't really care to know their actual personalities or problems. Heartbreakingly so later in the book.
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The Secret History / int_74ee1c2d	type	Out-of-Genre Experience
The Secret History / int_74ee1c2d	comment	Out-of-Genre Experience: The book is best known for its dark academia genre — a sort of Evelyn Waugh, Oxonian vibe. But that's not strictly speaking the book's genre — it's the clique's. The Classics clique create their own little world around themselves with a very distinctive genre to it. But every time Richard steps outside that world, the contrast is sharp. After a weekend spent at the country house, Richard mentioning "asphalt and shopping malls and modular furniture" can be startling. Spend some time with Judy, and he's doing cocaine in the parking lot of Burger King. Walk away from the campus part of town, and there's a seedy bar with a padded-vinyl door full of Vermont working men in flannel shirts.
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The Secret History / int_762b9223	type	Played for Laughs
The Secret History / int_762b9223	comment	Bunny's pompous attitude and absurd Victorian-style social conservatism make his asinine racist comments more than a little hilarious as well. Typically Played for Laughs in both cases.
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The Secret History / int_79a60aec	type	For Want of a Nail
The Secret History / int_79a60aec	comment	For Want Of A Nail: The only reason Richard ends up embroiled in the plot is that the Ancient Greek class at his community college fit his schedule. Then he became enamored with the clique and pulled in by their magnetism. Bunny only ends up embroiled in the Classics clique because Henry was his randomly-assigned roommate in his freshman year. Then he get pulled in by Henry's magnetism.
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The Secret History / int_7c862b8a	type	Chronic Backstabbing Disorder
The Secret History / int_7c862b8a	comment	Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: By the end of the book, Henry has accidentally killed a farmer, murdered Bunny, tried to kill Charles and was apparently planning something for Richard.
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The Secret History / int_7eb2bc15	type	Ambiguous Time Period
The Secret History / int_7eb2bc15	comment	Ambiguous Time Period: The Classics clique cultivate around themselves a microcosm reminiscent of The '40s. Outside of their claustrophobic little world, it generally seems like the novel is set in the The '80s. Donna Tartt attended Bennington College between 1982 and 1986 and that's very overtly the inspiration behind the story and particularly the setting. That said, there's also a couple throwaway references suggesting it's set the late 80s or early The '90s. She began writing the book in 1983 and it was published in 1992, and it seems to have picked up things from that whole span. References from after Donna's own college years: There's a TV show, Tonight in Vermont, which is described as "in imitation of Oprah and Phil." The Oprah Winfrey Show began in 1986. The Dean of Studies says: "I can't for the life of me imagine what the Isramis would want with Julian. Hampden's own Salman Rushdie." The fatwa calling for Rushdie's assassination was issued in February 1989. An offhanded mention of Saddam Hussein. Dr Roland (admittedly an Unreliable Expositor) drives a "98 Regency Brougham, ten years old." The Non-Indicatively Named 98 Regency Brougham was introduced for 1982, so (unless there's Exactly Exty Years Ago rounding going on) a 10-year-old car would bring us to 1992. There's also a handful of references (always in the mouths of an Unreliable Expositor) which are incorrect: US President Jimmy Carter's first term began in 1977. He was not president in 1975. Egyptian President Anwar Sadat was assassinated in 1981, not 1982. Karen Carpenter had anorexia, not bulimia.
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The Secret History / int_7f67b0c6	type	Hated Hometown
The Secret History / int_7f67b0c6	comment	Hated Hometown: Richard's hatred of Plano, California is what ultimately motivates him to come to Hampden. He dislikes the place so much that he won't even go back for winter break, although the alternative is living in an unsafe rented room in which he nearly freezes to death.
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The Secret History / int_7fbe9a30	type	Freak Out
The Secret History / int_7fbe9a30	comment	Freak Out: Towards the end, all the characters suffer some sort of mental crisis or breakdown, as a result of their stress and guilt over Bunny's murder. Francis's hypochondriac and nervous tendencies skyrocket. Richard becomes addicted to pills. Charles becomes an abusive alcoholic, forcing Camilla to take refuge with Henry. Years after Henry's suicide, she's still in love with him, and has virtually no life outside caring for her elderly grandmother.
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The Secret History / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
The Secret History / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: Very carefully done. First we get Richard's first impressions of all the main characters, making sure to highlight the similarities between Henry and Bunny. We also hear about Julian before we meet him. As Richard meets everyone in person, their first scenes are often telling for the contrast between their public faces and Hidden Depths. Richard, as the narrator, consciously points out the establishing moments for his own character as he goes along. Henry casually mentions that he's translating Paradise Lost into Latin, in which he thinks Milton ought to have composed it. To someone versed in literature, it's a compelling bit of shorthand that depicts in a flash Henry's mixture of powerful intellect and impoverished imagination. Bunny's boorish attitudes about foreigners are exemplified by his love of the gleeful bigotry of the Fu Manchu novels. One of the first things that Richard hears about Julian before meeting him is that he was a friend of Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot. This disturbingly foreshadows Julian's arrogance, elitism and reactionary politics — both Modernists were openly misogynistic, racist and in Pound's case pro-Nazi.
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The Secret History / int_8015df5d	type	Reverse Whodunnit
The Secret History / int_8015df5d	comment	Reverse Whodunnit: Bunny's murder is laid out in the prologue, and then we spend the first half of the book coming to understand why.
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The Secret History / int_8077793f	type	Open Secret
The Secret History / int_8077793f	comment	Open Secret: Sexuality in general is not an open topic amongst the group. While there is some sex going on, no one ever discusses it openly. Everyone know Francis is gay, but they don't address it directly. Richard is kept in the dark about Charles and Camilla's incestuous relationship for most of the book, but the others in the group are all more or less aware. This even extends to Bunny and his perfectly sanctioned girlfriend Marion, of whom Richard says, "I was pretty sure he slept with her, but at the same time he was incredibly prudish." Closer to the beginning of the story, Richard's working class background: while he does bluff his way for a time he's also given away by the fact that, unlike his Classics peers, he isn't discriminating about what brands or labels of commercial products he purchases, but instead has bought (from everyday clothing to writing utensils) whatever is most necessary to get the job done on an affordable budget.
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The Secret History / int_808316b6	type	Politically Motivated Teacher
The Secret History / int_808316b6	comment	Politically Motivated Teacher: Laforgue is loosely implied to be this. He tries to get Richard into his class rather than Julian's, largely because he believes his more modern, liberal views are better—although he coats his anti-elitism in homophobia (made all the more ironic by his similarity in appearance and mannerisms to Foucault).
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The Secret History / int_820ac3c5	type	Dysfunction Junction
The Secret History / int_820ac3c5	comment	Dysfunction Junction: All the main characters have massive flaws, personal issues, and dysfunctional families, all of which help bring the group's tensions from bad to worse.
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The Secret History / int_822ff0d7	type	Relative Error
The Secret History / int_822ff0d7	comment	Relative Error: Before he knows they are twins, Richard first assumes that Charles and Camilla are boyfriend and girlfriend. Much later he learns they have an incestuous relationship.
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The Secret History / int_8411ab92	type	Red Oni, Blue Oni
The Secret History / int_8411ab92	comment	Richard first introduces us to the group by highlighting the physical similarities between Henry and Bunny. They both wear glasses, and the same kind of glasses at that. They're both tall and broad. They both part their hair such that it falls over one eye. Beyond that, they're opposites — Red Oni, Blue Oni, Odd Friendship.
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The Secret History / int_868409c	type	Broken Pedestal
The Secret History / int_868409c	comment	Broken Pedestal: Julian, whom his students revere. After he finds out about Bunny's murder, he flees the school (and probably the country), never to be heard from again.
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The Secret History / int_8767b1f3	type	Black-and-Gray Morality
The Secret History / int_8767b1f3	comment	Black-and-Gray Morality: While some characters are definitely worse than others, no one, not even the minor characters, is a genuinely good person.
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The Secret History / int_8b442f50	type	Did Not Get the Girl
The Secret History / int_8b442f50	comment	Did Not Get the Girl: As the only girl in an insular little group, Camilla could basically have her pick of any of them. She choses their king.
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The Secret History / int_8ba6dee3	type	Self-Poisoning Gambit
The Secret History / int_8ba6dee3	comment	Self-Poisoning Gambit: Henry's Murder Bunny Plan 1.0 involves poisonous amanita phalloides mushrooms which they'll both eat. Henry is slightly bigger than Bunny, and he's hoping to find an amount of poison which will kill Bunny but only make him very sick. Henry asks Richard for help, hoping that Richard's one year of pre-med will allow him to calculate the dosage, and is disappointed when Richard says he can't help and this is a dumb and dangerous plan besides. Plus Henry is getting all this from 15th-century Persian texts, which he's working through with a dictionary, since that's not among the many languages he knows. So there's room for something to get lost in translation as well.
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The Secret History / int_9646cd74	type	Government in Exile
The Secret History / int_9646cd74	comment	Government in Exile: The Isrami Royal Family. The rumor mill has it that Julian has a mission (possibly at Uncle Sam's behest) that involves them.
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The Secret History / int_96a33f11	type	Riddle for the Ages
The Secret History / int_96a33f11	comment	Riddle for the Ages: In the final lines, Henry kisses Camilla between the eyes, whispers something in her ear ("what, I've always wondered", Richard says of it), kisses her again, says, "I love you" — then commits suicide.
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The Secret History / int_96fbeaf	type	There Are No Therapists
The Secret History / int_96fbeaf	comment	There Are No Therapists: The clique think there's nothing wrong with them, and, culturally, would have no interest in therapy even if they did. Still, in his very first session of Greek class, though, Richard remarks that an average contemporary person would quickly conclude that these people all need therapy. He does not interpret this as a red flag.
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The Secret History / int_9718a22a	type	You Remind Me of X
The Secret History / int_9718a22a	comment	You Remind Me of X: Richard is "puzzled and a bit offended" to hear that he reminded Bunny of Cloke.
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The Secret History / int_97b30203	type	Implied Trope
The Secret History / int_97b30203	comment	Implied Trope with Henry, who is mostly estranged from his father for no reason that we ever learn. Henry suffered a serious injury that gave him permanent facial scarring as a child, and Bunny gets very uncomfortable talking about it.
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The Secret History / int_9ab3da1a	type	Evil Mentor
The Secret History / int_9ab3da1a	comment	The one exception is Julian, at least for those who read him as an Evil Mentor. His influence on Henry is responsible for nearly the entire plot, but as far as we know, he escapes to do the exact same thing to more students somewhere else.
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The Secret History / int_9b9d5657	type	Slow-Motion Fall
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The Secret History / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
The Secret History / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Richard romanticizes the northeast before actually living there, and is almost killed by the local inclement weather when he does. This foreshadows the reversal of his apotheosis of Henry Winter, when Henry comes very close to killing him later in the story.
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The Secret History / int_9fc04a54	type	Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?
The Secret History / int_9fc04a54	comment	Richard "Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?" Papen speaks of his gay hookup evasively, saying only, "Matters progressed."
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The Secret History / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
The Secret History / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: Richard at Bunny's funeral. Charles also shows signs of this during the early stages of his Freak Out.
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The Secret History / int_a2484b0e	type	The Beautiful Elite
The Secret History / int_a2484b0e	comment	The Beautiful Elite: Richard is fascinated with Julian and his students even before he manages to get in with them, and idealises persistently through the first part of the book. It's played straight early in the book and subverted more and more as the book progresses. Near the end Richard realises that a lot of his assumptions about the group have been wrong (particularly his assumptions regarding their wealth and inherent superiority).
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The Secret History / int_a2968da6	type	If Only You Knew
The Secret History / int_a2968da6	comment	If Only You Knew: Julian has a poor opinion of young people taking drugs. It's a good thing he's so good at selective perception, or he'd think less well of his students. Bunny's dad gives a speech about how Henry was Bunny's best friend, and how everyone should have a friend like that.
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The Secret History / int_a3912d0e	type	Sexy Discretion Shot
The Secret History / int_a3912d0e	comment	Sexy Discretion Shot: Richard is baffled to learn his friends had an orgy with each other. Henry is unflappable and calmly acknowledges and dismisses it. Richard "Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?" Papen speaks of his gay hookup evasively, saying only, "Matters progressed."
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The Secret History / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
The Secret History / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: The story flips between comedy and tragedy surprisingly often. Played up for irony at several points.
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The Secret History / int_a5adbbe7	type	Unreliable Expositor
The Secret History / int_a5adbbe7	comment	There's also a handful of references (always in the mouths of an Unreliable Expositor) which are incorrect: US President Jimmy Carter's first term began in 1977. He was not president in 1975. Egyptian President Anwar Sadat was assassinated in 1981, not 1982. Karen Carpenter had anorexia, not bulimia.
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The Secret History / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
The Secret History / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Inverted. Although none of the characters are punished by the law, none of them live particularly happy lives afterwards. The one exception is Julian, at least for those who read him as an Evil Mentor. His influence on Henry is responsible for nearly the entire plot, but as far as we know, he escapes to do the exact same thing to more students somewhere else.
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The Secret History / int_a7f7e5f4	type	Absurdly Youthful Mother
The Secret History / int_a7f7e5f4	comment	Absurdly Youthful Mother: Mrs. Abernathy got pregnant with Francis at 17, and has kept her youthful looks. According to Bunny, Henry's mother is also very young.
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The Secret History / int_a861560f	type	The Friend Nobody Likes
The Secret History / int_a861560f	comment	The Friend Nobody Likes: Bunny. At first the other five do genuinely care for him despite being annoyed by his unrepentant jerkass, bigoted behavior and tendency to sponge off everyone for as much money as possible. After the murder, however, all good feelings vanish because he won't stop needling them about it and becomes terribly cruel, (especially to Camilla, Francis and Richard for being female, gay and poor, respectively). But they can't get rid of him because he might tell. So they get rid of him a different way. And then there's his other shortcoming: being gauche, middlebrow, and unaesthetic.
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The Secret History / int_aba8065b	type	Fatal Flaw
The Secret History / int_aba8065b	comment	Fatal Flaw: The opening lines of the book:
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The Secret History / int_ad786c6b	type	Hookers and Blow
The Secret History / int_ad786c6b	comment	Hookers and Blow: Favoured pastimes of the Hampden student body. Possibly also the Bacchanal itself, depending on the reader's interpretation. The classics clique are all convinced that they corporeally encountered, and were possessed by the god Dionysus. But it might just have been a hallucination by a group of college students who got high and had sex while trespassing on someone else's land.
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The Secret History / int_af696bef	type	Fish out of Water
The Secret History / int_af696bef	comment	Fish out of Water: Richard amongst the Classics group, but so are the Classics group amongst the rest of the school: a group of quite emotive, elegantly if flamboyantly dressed, and extraordinarily studious students with an anachronistic lifestyle juxtaposed against a school full of either apathetic/nihilistic or blindly idealistic and forward-looking hippies, new agers, stoners, valley girls, yuppies, and party kids—in essence, a small holdout of failed romanticists in the midst of modern and an emergent post-modern culture. This is commented on whenever Richard spends time with students outside of the story's main clique—usually in the form of someone expressing unease around the Classics majors.
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The Secret History / int_b0485a20	type	Ditzy Genius
The Secret History / int_b0485a20	comment	Ditzy Genius: Outside of Richard, the classics clique are pretty impractical people outside of their studies (as shown by Henry's bizarre and convoluted plans to cover up the murder). Despite putting on a show of being worldly and well-traveled, all of them are also confused by the technology and values of the modern world to an almost unbelievable extent.
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The Secret History / int_b11ac9f5	type	Abusive Parents
The Secret History / int_b11ac9f5	comment	Abusive Parents: All over the place. Richard's father used to beat both him and his mother. Francis's mother is an alcoholic who dates men almost his own age and propositions his friends for threesomes. Bunny's parents abandon him at schools they can barely afford the fees for and don't give him a penny to live on while he's there. Implied Trope with Henry, who is mostly estranged from his father for no reason that we ever learn. Henry suffered a serious injury that gave him permanent facial scarring as a child, and Bunny gets very uncomfortable talking about it.
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The Secret History / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
The Secret History / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: Richard, almost literally. To be fair, he's from California, so it's not like he has much experience with cold, but he really should have known better than to try to spend a New England winter living in a loft with a hole in the roof.
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The Secret History / int_b5dded87	type	Gossipy Hens
The Secret History / int_b5dded87	comment	Gossipy Hens: Within the group the main example has got to be Bunny. He frequently uses his conversations with Richard as an example to share gossip about the other Classics majors, often casting aspersions and saying blatantly strange and untrue things about them in the process. A few outside of the main group want to gossip about the clique, many of whom are skeptical and puzzled by their presence. Richard's meetings with his faculty advisor Georges Laforgue usually involve lots and lots of gossip on Laforgue's end, with instructor Julian Morrow's past and lifestyle being a favorite subject.
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The Secret History / int_b61b7b5c	type	This Is My Story
The Secret History / int_b61b7b5c	comment	This Is My Story: Richard provides this in the prologue.
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The Secret History / int_b6caa5b4	type	Operation: Jealousy
The Secret History / int_b6caa5b4	comment	Operation: Jealousy: Implied Trope with Camilla and Francis, although it's very unclear. They're a weird pairing, neither of whom is interested in each other — but Francis has been known to kiss Camilla on occasion. This happens once when Francis arrives at the very first dinner party Richard attends, and again in an anecdote Francis tells about a prior year when the group went to a restaurant called the Lobster Pagoda.
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The Secret History / int_b707726f	type	Hypocritical Humor
The Secret History / int_b707726f	comment	Hypocritical Humor: Bunny mocks Henry for possibly being Nouveau Riche and takes several verbal elbow jabs at Richard for putting on a fraudulent show of being from a higher-status background than he actually is. In reality Bunny spends a lot of the story broke and sponging money off of his wealthier peers, and comes from a very tastelessly modern, new-rich family that defines itself on Conspicuous Consumption. Bunny — the least brainy and academically minded of the whole group — tries to bully Camilla about not being smart enough for serious scholarship. Richard and Judy do cocaine together and then he calls her a "senseless cokehead" all within the same (run-on) sentence! One time at the country house they found a gun and did a little target shooting in the yard. Henry "Murder Is the Best Solution" Winter "was quite shaken by it" when he accidently shot a duck, to the point they put the pistol away after that.
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The Secret History / int_b77808f2	type	"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue
The Secret History / int_b77808f2	comment	"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue: The epilogue accounts for all the major and minor characters, right down to a feral cat mentioned once, about eight years later, which is when Richard is writing it all down. It also includes Francis, Camilla, and Richard's bittersweet meeting, after Francis's attempted suicide, about three years after the main events of the story.
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The Secret History / int_ba27e28a	type	Alcohol-Induced Bisexuality
The Secret History / int_ba27e28a	comment	Alcohol-Induced Bisexuality: Charles occasionally hooks up with Francis when he's drunk, and then refuses to acknowledge it afterwards.
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The Secret History / int_bd406737	type	Anxiety Dreams
The Secret History / int_bd406737	comment	Anxiety Dreams: Discussed when Richard wonders why he doesn't have more of them after finding out about the farmer's death. Played more straight after he participates in killing Bunny.
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The Secret History / int_bda2a088	type	Did They or Didn't They?
The Secret History / int_bda2a088	comment	Did They or Didn't They?: Hand in hand with the Love Dodecahedron, the details of Henry and Camilla's relationship—when it began, how far it went—are unclear.
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The Secret History / int_bdbfd01c	type	Perfectly Cromulent Word
The Secret History / int_bdbfd01c	comment	Perfectly Cromulent Word: "Metahemeralism," a concept based on a malapropistic conflation of Metaphysicism and bucolic hexameter poetry, which Bunny insists exists but is at great pains to define. He nonetheless manages to base an entire essay around it.
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The Secret History / int_be8416ea	type	Shrouded in Myth
The Secret History / int_be8416ea	comment	Shrouded in Myth: Throughout the story, no one is able to guess Julian's age, whether he is old money or new money (or penniless but keeping up a front), and rumors about his involvement in political and artistic life run rampant. The only one of the rumors that comes close to being addressed any further is his connection to the princess of a deposed foreign dynasty.
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The Secret History / int_c2612ea8	type	Lost Pet Grievance
The Secret History / int_c2612ea8	comment	Lost Pet Grievance: The twins adopt an elderly greyhound, which only lives a few months. Camilla really loved that dog.
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The Secret History / int_c313d43a	type	True Companions
The Secret History / int_c313d43a	comment	True Companions: At the emotional high point of the book, Richard may believe his and his new friends are this. It falls apart under the weight of the blackmail, murder, various plots, general backstabbing and a Love Dodecahedron.
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The Secret History / int_c339d8fb	type	Genius Book Club
The Secret History / int_c339d8fb	comment	Genius Book Club: The classics cohort as described by Richard. In reality, they are shown to be bizarrely technologically illiterate, eerily unaware of any history that has taken place since about 1940 (Henry has never heard of the moon landing!), and to have trouble comprehending contemporary attitudes towards a variety of subjects (Camilla ends up Comically Missing the Point of an anti-war film). Mostly Played for Laughs given their assumed intellectual prowess. This is subverted even as regards to their own specialist subject, as the clique regularly misunderstand classical texts too. Richard's description of Dionysus in Euripides' The Bacchae as a bloodthirsty sadist without any recognisable principles of justice will strike any reader familiar with the play as a bizarre misreading. Far from 'a triumph of barbarism over reason', as Richard claims, Dionysus simply wants to be acknowledged as the god he is, and the play's antagonist Pentheus is a hypocritical He-Man Woman Hater with a bad case of Sex Is Evil, and I Am Horny who brings about his own fate through his hubris, despite Dionysus giving him multiple chances to see sense and change his mind.
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The Secret History / int_c3a7dcab	type	Qurac
The Secret History / int_c3a7dcab	comment	Qurac: The Isrami government, a fictional Middle Eastern country that is known to have a "terrorist government" that overthrew the former monarchy, paralleling the history of Iran.
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The Secret History / int_c3c77510	type	There Is Only One Bed
The Secret History / int_c3c77510	comment	There Is Only One Bed: Camilla and Marion at Bunny's funeral, in case things weren't awkward enough.
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The Secret History / int_c6edf1c	type	Tragic Dropout
The Secret History / int_c6edf1c	comment	Tragic Dropout: Francis, Charles and Camilla all leave Hampton after Henry's death. Francis is bullied into marriage by his family, Charles collapses further into alcoholism and Camilla becomes a recluse.
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The Secret History / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Secret History / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: They use the Liddell & Scott lexicon in Greek class. The editions of the book are between 1843 and 1940. They're not just studying Greek, they're studying it in an old-fashioned way. Richard goes to see some movies so he can explain the plots to the rest of the murder clique in order to help with their alibi. One is a fictional equivalent to Apocalypse Now or Platoon, and Camilla ends up Comically Missing the Point. Much like the literary critic Edmund Wilson, who went by the nickname "Bunny", Bunny's real name is Edmund. Henry's middle name is also the pseudonym and more outspoken alter ego of 20th-century Canadian literary star Robertson Davies. Julian Morrow is said to have been acquainted with literary figures including T. S. Eliot and George Orwell. The omen of a pregnant dog:
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The Secret History / int_cb70651c	type	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
The Secret History / int_cb70651c	comment	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: Did the rite work? It's left ambiguous.
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The Secret History / int_cc4b45f6	type	Word of God
The Secret History / int_cc4b45f6	comment	Word of God is that Camilla is named after Camilla the warrior maiden in The Aeneid.
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The Secret History / int_cddc61ac	type	Fake-Out Make-Out
The Secret History / int_cddc61ac	comment	Fake-Out Make-Out: Subverted Trope. At Bunny's funeral, Cloke sees Richard and Camilla leaving the bathroom together. Camila is tugging her skirt down. Cloke assumes they were making out in there. Actually they were rummaging through the cabinets under the sink looking for drugs. At first they let him assume what he will, but then Richard tells him the truth. Cloke, a drug dealer, is happy to help out and explains where the drugs in the house are actually hidden.
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The Secret History / int_cf3966e6	type	Suspicious Spending
The Secret History / int_cf3966e6	comment	Suspicious Spending: A moocher at the best of times, Bunny realizes there's no limit on what Henry and Francis will spend on him once they start to fear he could tip off the police. This does not go unnoticed by the wealthy parents who finance them. Francis's mother (with a history of addiction herself) thinks that he's on drugs. After Bunny's murder, reports of his Conspicuous Consumption in the months prior reinforce the theory that he was involved in Cloke Rayburn's drug trade.
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The Secret History / int_d0c563ad	type	Religion Is Wrong
The Secret History / int_d0c563ad	comment	Religion Is Wrong: Modern religion, according to Julian. Bunny just hates Catholics and Jews.
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The Secret History / int_d39d4b71	type	The Perfect Crime
The Secret History / int_d39d4b71	comment	The Perfect Crime: Henry attempts this with Bunny's murder. It just barely succeeds, as the plan hinged on Bunny's body being found much sooner than it actually was.
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The Secret History / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
The Secret History / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: Henry is an anti-hero at best, but it still hits hard when Charles points out that basically everything the group suffers is his fault.
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The Secret History / int_d52d28b6	type	Hypocrite
The Secret History / int_d52d28b6	comment	Hypocrite: Richard somewhat grifts Dr. Roland. He asks for an advance on his work-study payment — not exactly asking for a hand-out — but upon being handed the check, his first thought is, "Maybe he would even forget he had given it to me." When Bunny pulls his "forgotten wallet" shtick with Richard, Richard judges him.
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The Secret History / int_d7a0ee55	type	Extremely Easy Exam
The Secret History / int_d7a0ee55	comment	Extremely Easy Exam: The Invariant Subspaces course at Hampden has had an exam that consists of the same one yes-or-no question for as long as anyone can remember. The question is three pages long, but the answer is always 'Yes'.
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The Secret History / int_d8affc41	type	Graduation for Everyone
The Secret History / int_d8affc41	comment	Graduation for Everyone: Subverted. Richard is the only one of the group to graduate, Bunny and Henry being dead and Francis and the twins having fled back to their families.
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The Secret History / int_dc955e66	type	Inspired by…
The Secret History / int_dc955e66	comment	Inspired byâ€¦: Hampden is based off of Bennington College, the author's school — many of the characters and minor incidents described in the book are based directly on Donna Tartt's observations about her classmates. The town, though not the college, of Bennington itself makes a couple Creator Cameos — Richard mentions taking day trips with Charles to Bennington, Manchester, and Pownal. There's a mention of one time, in a prior year, when the clique went out to dinner at the Lobster Pagoda, "a ridiculous Chinese restaurant in Bennington," that certainly gives the impression that it's a real place.
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The Secret History / int_e0222ff2	type	Buy Them Off
The Secret History / int_e0222ff2	comment	Buy Them Off: The rest of the group spends inordinate amounts of money on Bunny to try to prevent him from calling the police. When he starts to talk anyway, they resort to Plan B.
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The Secret History / int_e11027bb	type	Sex for Solace
The Secret History / int_e11027bb	comment	Sex for Solace: Charles uses Francis for this reason.
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The Secret History / int_e34400ab	type	Ambiguously Gay
The Secret History / int_e34400ab	comment	Ambiguously Gay: There is a not-baseless stereotype that Classics students are disproportionately gay. Richard thinks about at least the possibility of homoerotic behavior from every single one of the clique boys at some point — although that might say more about Richard's own Ambiguously Bi proclivities than those of his friends.
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The Secret History / int_e43130c1	comment	Interrupted Intimacy: Charles very nearly walks in on Richard and Francis, and then proceeds to go home with Francis that night. Bunny claims to have once walked in on Charles and Camilla together. In the epilogue, Francis tells the following story:
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The Secret History / int_e4f48a7f	type	The "Fun" in "Funeral"
The Secret History / int_e4f48a7f	comment	The "Fun" in "Funeral": Bunny's funeral would be serious business, if it weren't for his friends and family.
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The Secret History / int_ee7a60e9	type	One-Steve Limit
The Secret History / int_ee7a60e9	comment	One-Steve Limit: Two of Bunny's brothers — Teddy and Hugh — are married to women named Lisa.
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The Secret History / int_f511ea9b	type	Product Placement
The Secret History / int_f511ea9b	comment	Product Placement: The rich clique mention a lot of brands by name. Julian has Montblanc MeisterstÃ¼ck pens. Francis gives hand-me-down suits to Charles and Richard—Sulka, Aquascutum, Gieves & Hawkes. Henry smokes Lucky Strikes. Francis and Henry have this much-memed conversation about Gucci:
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The Secret History / int_f6b30338	type	Murder Is the Best Solution
The Secret History / int_f6b30338	comment	Murder Is the Best Solution:
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The Secret History / int_f70710ae	type	Blackmail Backfire
The Secret History / int_f70710ae	comment	Blackmail Backfire: Bunny's tacit leveraging of his knowledge of the murder to wring large sums of money out of Henry and Francis and otherwise manipulate his friends serves as a significant motivator for the gang to turn against him.
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The Secret History / int_f76842b1	type	The Fundamentalist
The Secret History / int_f76842b1	comment	The Fundamentalist: Redeemed Repairs, a car mechanic business run by racist born-again Christians.
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The Secret History / int_fd497706	type	Accidental Murder
The Secret History / int_fd497706	comment	Accidental Murder: Henry, the twins, and Francis accidentally kill a farmer during their Dionysian rite.
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The Secret History / int_fdbd6162	type	With Friends Like These...
The Secret History / int_fdbd6162	comment	With Friends Like These...: Henry and Bunny were freshman roommates and best friends. It didn't end well for either of them. After Bunny's murder, Henry tries to kill Charles and may have been about to give Richard's name to the FBI. Charles, in turn, attempts to kill Henry, and ends up shooting Richard.
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The Secret History / int_fe0330fb	type	Brick Joke
The Secret History / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: Francis' obsession with hygiene and his inability to leave a ringing phone unanswered. In-Universe, teasing Richard about being a tasteless California boy for Bunny.
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The Secret History	hasFeature	All Gays are Promiscuous / int_787bd2e0
The Secret History	hasFeature	Ambiguously Bi / int_787bd2e0
The Secret History	hasFeature	Armoured Closet Gay / int_787bd2e0
The Secret History	hasFeature	Buy Them Off / int_787bd2e0
The Secret History	hasFeature	Eccentric Mentor / int_787bd2e0
The Secret History	hasFeature	Everybody Smokes / int_787bd2e0
The Secret History	hasFeature	Extremely Easy Exam / int_787bd2e0
The Secret History	hasFeature	Gaydar / int_787bd2e0
The Secret History	hasFeature	Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today? / int_787bd2e0
The Secret History	hasFeature	He-Man Woman Hater / int_787bd2e0
The Secret History	hasFeature	Immortality Seeker / int_787bd2e0
The Secret History	hasFeature	Murder Is the Best Solution / int_787bd2e0
The Secret History	hasFeature	Non P.O.V. Protagonist / int_787bd2e0
The Secret History	hasFeature	One Thing Led to Another / int_787bd2e0
The Secret History	hasFeature	Peer Pressure Makes You Evil / int_787bd2e0
The Secret History	hasFeature	Penny Among Diamonds / int_787bd2e0
The Secret History	hasFeature	Perfectly Cromulent Word / int_787bd2e0
The Secret History	hasFeature	Police Psychic / int_787bd2e0
The Secret History	hasFeature	Preppy Name / int_787bd2e0
The Secret History	hasFeature	Pretty Boy / int_787bd2e0
The Secret History	hasFeature	Raised by Grandparents / int_787bd2e0
The Secret History	hasFeature	Reverse Whodunnit / int_787bd2e0
The Secret History	hasFeature	Scholarship Student / int_787bd2e0
The Secret History	hasFeature	Screw the Rules, I Have Money! / int_787bd2e0
The Secret History	hasFeature	Take Over the City / int_787bd2e0
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The Secret History	hasFeature	With Friends Like These... / int_787bd2e0
The Secret History	hasFeature	Minored in Ass-Kicking / int_787bd2e0
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