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* [[Beautiful All Along]]: Handled subtly and well in the case of Beauty - convinced at an early age that she's homely, she avoids mirrors for most of her adolescence and is pleasantly surprised when she finally sees herself as a young adult.
* [[The Blacksmith]]: Gervain
* [[Blonde, Brunette, Redhead]]: As adults, Beauty and her sisters are this (in age order no less). Grace is blonde, Hope is brunette, and Beauty's hair is described as red-gold.
* [[Brainy Brunette]]: Before her hair changes to red-gold as she grows older, Beauty is this.
* [[Cool Horse]]: Greatheart
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* [[Curse Escape Clause]]
* [[Daddy's Girl]]: It's noted repeatedly that although he dotes on all of his daughters, Beauty is her father's favorite. The older sisters deliberately encourage this to make up for Beauty's low self esteem.
* [[Dead Guy, Junior]]: Beauty's niece is named Mercy, after her younger sister who died as an infant; her nephew is named Richard, after her brother-in-law's father.
* [[Death By Childbirth]]: Beauty's mother.
* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: Many elements of this novel, including Beauty's horse and the Beast's magic mirror, are curiously echoed in [[Disney]]'s ''[[Beauty and The Beast (Disney)|Beauty and The Beast]]''. It's unclear whether this is an odd coincidence or a deliberate callback.
** Regardless of whether it was intentional or not, a later paperback cover for the book gave Beauty brown hair and a yellow ballroom gown as a [[Shout
* [[First Girl Wins|First Guy Wins]]: {{spoiler|Grace's beloved Robbie, believed lost at sea, returns by some miracle. Beauty discovers his life through a magic mirror belonging to the Beast, and with his permission rushes home to warn Grace so that she won't accept the marriage proposal of the village minister, who has been trying to court her.}}
* [[Friend to All Living Things]]: Beauty has shades of this. Greatheart became her horse because she bottle-fed him when he was an orphaned baby, and she notes that as a general rule she's always been partial to horses. In the castle, she acquires a number of feathered friends when she turns the ledge of her bedroom window into a bird feeder.
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* [[She Is All Grown Up]]: At the end, Beauty discovers that her appearance has improved dramatically, and she now has the same features she described as belonging to her mother.
** Although this ''could'' be partly attributed to the castle's magic, considering how Beauty's father is described as looking substantially better after his stay at the castle - who knows if some of that same magic rubbed off on Beauty during her long stay there? Then again, the Beast did say that Beauty matched her nickname well on her very first day at the castle...
* [[Shout
* [[Talking in Your Dreams]]
* [[Tomboy]]
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