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* [[Adult Child]]: Maggy, who is twenty-eight but whose mental development was stopped by an accident at ten years old.
* [[Blackmail]]: Rigaud discovers that {{spoiler|Arthur is not Mrs. Clennam's child}}, resulting in this trope.
* [[Card
* [[Children Raise You]]: A rather sad example, with Amy providing money, food and emotional support to her helpless father and careless siblings even though she's the youngest of them all.
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Mr. F's aunt.
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* [[Dropped a Bridge On Him]]: {{spoiler|Rigaud is crushed under the ruins of the Clennam house.}}
* [[Dysfunctional Family]]: The Dorrits and the Clennams.
* [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"]]: The narrator refers to Mr. Merdle's powerful acquaintances by their careers: Bar (a lawyer), Physician, Bishop and Treasury.
* [[Evil Lawyer Joke]]: Bar often makes them at his own expense.
* [[First Love]]: Flora Finching to Arthur.
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* [[Memento MacGuffin]]: The mysterious watch Clennam's father entrusts to his son on his deathbed.
* [[Married Name Doodling]]: John Chivery blissfully daydreams about matching marital tombstones for himself and Amy.
* [[May
* [[Meaningful Name]]: Well, it ''is'' Dickens. Most notably, Merdle, Mrs. General, Sparkler, the Barnacles, Flintwinch, and Tattycoram.
** As for place names, there's [[Wrong Side of the Tracks|Bleeding Heart Yard]] and the [[Obstructive Bureaucrat|Circumlocution Office]].
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* [[Ponzi]]: How {{spoiler|Mr. Merdle}} makes his fortune.
* [[Proper Lady]]: Despite having been born in debtor's prison, Amy Dorrit embodies this trope. Furthermore, she does so in spite of her father's small-minded attempts to hold on to gentility, shining as an example of true nobility of soul, rather than class or wealth.
* [[Screw the Money, I Have Rules]]: Amy Dorrit.
* [[She Is Not My Girlfriend]]: Arthur denies his crush on Pet even to ''himself'', transferring all his jealousy and anxiety onto a "Nobody" in his own mind.
* [[Shrinking Violet]]: Amy.
* [[Sibling Yin
* [[Spoiled Sweet]]: Pet.
* [[The Cynic]]: Henry Gowan.
* [[The Dog Bites Back]]: {{spoiler|Pancks bites back at Casby (see [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]). Affery bites back at Flintwinch and Mrs. Clennam by supporting Rigaud's evidence. Flintwinch bites back at mrs. Clennam by revealing that he kept a certain document instead of destroying it.}}
* [[The Jeeves]]: Mr. Merdle's eerily capable butler, who makes him feel like an intruder in his own mansion.
* [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]: {{spoiler|Pancks gives an epic one to Casby in front of all their tenants, showing them once and for all who's really been exploiting them. Then he hacks off Casby's hair.}}
* [[The Reveal]]: {{spoiler|Subverted. Amy Dorrit chooses not to tell Arthur Clennam about his real mother.}}
* [[The Un
* [[Those Two Guys]]: Bar and Physician often comment to each other at the Merdle dinners. {{spoiler|They wind up discovering Mr. Merdle's dead body.}}
* [[Terms of Endangerment]]: Rigaud showers them on everyone he meets, including the men.
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