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* [[Female Gaze]]: At a time when the male gaze was so rampant in film, the scene on the balcony was a terrific reversal.
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: A good 50% of the dialogue is about sex, but the lines are so masterfully written that they were able to get past the censors without difficulty.
{{quote| '''Ben''': ''Yes, sir, they're gonna say, 'There goes that poor old Clara Varner whose father married her off to a dirt-scratching, shiftless, no-good farmer who just happened by.' Well, let them talk, but I'll tell you one thing, you're gonna wake up in the morning smiling.''}}
* [[Happily Married]]: Jody and Eula, though it drives him insane that the rest of the boys in town are in love with is wife as well.
* [[Heat Wave]]: As the title suggests. No shock, it's Mississippi in the [[Long Hot Summer|middle of the summer]].
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* [[Inadequate Inheritor]]: Jody just [[The Woobie|can't]] live up to his father's expectations.
* [[I Want Grandkids]]
{{quote| '''Will Varner''': ''You and Jody and Jody's kids and yours and their kids, my descendants, sister, a line, a long line with my face stamped on 'em, my blood flowing in their veins.''<br />
'''Clara''': ''[[Deadpan Snarker|All of that from the two of us?]]'' }}
* [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]: Ben isn't so much a jerk as he is ambitious, and he sees Clara as his means of rising above his station in life. He eventually realizes what backward thinking this is.
* [[Kuudere]]: Clara comes off as a genuine [[Ice Queen]] to most everyone, Ben in particular, but she insists that the children of the town be educated and is much more relaxed around her friend and Alan. She even admits as much to Ben during the picnic scene.
{{quote| '''Clara''': ''You may not know it, but I've got quite a lot to give. I've got things I have been been saving up my whole life, things like love and understanding and jokes and good times and good cooking. I'm prepared to be the Queen of Sheba for some lucky man or at the very least the best wife that any man could hope for. Now that's my human history, and it's not going to be bought and sold and it's certainly not going to be given away to any passing stranger!''}}
* [[Large Ham]]: Hoo boy, Orson Welles. His southern drawl and fake nose alone was enough to [[Chew the Scenery]] to shreds.
* [[Loners Are Freaks]]: Why everyone assumes that Ben is a barn burner. See also [[Malicious Slander]].
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