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'''Jim:''' You're English, dear. Fake it. }}

* [[All Love Is Unrequited]]: Hilda for Phillip. Phillip for Larita. Marion for Edgar, but only because her mother wants it.

* [[Alcoholic Parent]]: Jim is rarely seen without a scotch in his hand.

* [[Arranged Marriage]]: Sarah and John were supposed to marry, but John ran away and married Larita; she's a little annoyed, but not particularly torn up, and becomes friends with Larita. Marion is supposed to marry Edgar, who fled as soon as he could, and Veronica wants Hilda to marry Phillip, but he doesn't take the arrangement very seriously.

* [[Bratty Teenage Daughter]]: Hilda and Marion break into histrionics at the drop of a hat.

* [[Break the Cutie]]: Attempted by Veronica on Larita, with mixed success; Larita is just as stubborn as she is, but her efforts do take their toll.

* [[Broken Bird]]: {{spoiler|Larita still grieves for her first husband. Veronica has been worn down by John's absence.}}

* [[Calling the Old Man Out]]: Subverted; {{spoiler|Veronica calls her son out for shirking his responsibilities.}}

* [[Conflicting Loyalty]]: John is torn between his family and his wife.

'''Larita:''' Alright, you threw me to the voles. Either way you abandoned me. }}

* [[Cool Big Sis]]: Larita tries to take on this role for Hilda, but accidentally causes her public humiliation.

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Several, but most notably Jim, Furber, and Larita herself.

* [[Despair Event Horizon]]: {{spoiler|Larita}} crosses this when {{spoiler|John flips out over the circumstances of her first husband's death}} and ends up hiding away, crying and incoherent.

{{[spoiler|'''Larita:''' You should have loved me better...}} }}

* [[Did Not Do the Research]]: Fatty Arbuckle was never jailed...

* [[Genteel Interbellum Setting]]: A throwaway comment from Jim places the film in 1928, but a different one from Marion implies that it's 1922, so it's hard to say.

* [[Girl Next Door]]: Sarah Hurst, though somewhat subverted in that while she has affection for John, their marriage was arranged, and she's not particularly heartbroken when he marries Larita. {{spoiler|It's implied they end up together anyway.}}

* [[Grey and Gray Morality]]: No one is bad or good, despite how they may appear at first.

* [[Hair of Gold]]: This is how Larita ''used'' to be; these days, she's very jaded.

* [[Mama Bear]]: Veronica seems like a total bitch, but everything she does is actually in the best interests of her children and the estate.

* [[Manipulative Bastard]]: Veronica, yet again, but she has her family's best interests in mind.

* [[My Beloved Smother]]: Veronica ''really'' wants John to divorce Larita and marry Sarah Hurst. {{spoiler|It turns out this is because the family fortune is ''gone'' and they desperately need Sarah's dowry to get them back on their feet.}}

* [[Old Maid]]: Larita. She and John like to tease eachother about the age difference; he jokingly refers to her as "grandma."

* [[Pretty in Mink]]: When Larita first arrived at the Whitaker house, she's wearing an ermine jacket. Later she dons a grey rabbit stole and muff. Veronica wears a mink stole in some scenes.

* [[Really Gets Around]]: Larita is accused of this, and it's implied there may be some truth to it--{{spoiler|she does leave her husband for her father-in-law, after all.}}

'''Larita:''' Of course it's not true, Mrs Whittaker. Hardly any of them actually loved me. }}

* [[Running Gag]]: Larita's hayfever; Marion finding likenesses of Edgar.

* [[Servile Snarker]]: Oh, Furber.

'''Furber:''' Yes, madam. Prodigiously. }}

* [[She Cleans Up Nicely]]: Larita is already gorgeous, but when she does herself up for the party, she's spectacular. Sarah, similarly.

* [[Shell-Shocked Veteran]]: Jim went a little bit mad after the war, and "caroused around France and Italy" before pulling himself together and wandering home. {{spoiler|It's eventually revealed he never got over it; Veronica dragged him back to England to fulfil his familial duties.}}

* [[The Snark Knight]]: Jim, in grand style.

* [[Stepford Smiler]]: {{spoiler|As it turns out, Veronica. Jim leaving her at the end of the play may cause her to finally snap.}}

* [[The Stoic]]: Several characters adopt a stoic facade, for various reasons; Jim is perhaps the most notable.

* [[Title Drop]]:

* [[Unkempt Beauty]]: Colin Firth's character, which comes as quite a shock [[Pride and Prejudice|considering]] [[Love Actually|his]] [[Mamma Mia|previous]] [[Bridget Jones|roles.]] [[Fetish Fuel|Not that anyone's complaining ...]]

* [[Upper Class Wit]]: Phillip Hurst is well-dressed and charming, but totally foppish (and managed to injure himself by failing to get out of the way of a cow he tipped.) Jim Whittaker sits around drinking scotch and being sarcastic. {{spoiler|They, and Sarah, are the only people who treat Larita with dignity and kindness by the end of the play.}}

* [[Upperclass Twit]]: Played straight with Hilda, who is an utter ditz; subverted with Marion, {{spoiler|who is very aware that their family is rapidly running out of money.}}

* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: ''Phillip'' of all people delivers one to {{spoiler|Hilda, after she utterly destroys Larita by making her first husband's suicide public knowledge.}}

{{spoiler|'''Phillip:''' And which little fool gave her that?}} }}

** There's another one delivered by Larita to Veronica.