- Moral Event Horizon: James crosses it when he beats poor Berenice to death with a tire iron.
- Nightmare Fuel: James's murder of Berenice.
- The Woobie: Berenice. She's constantly emotionally abused by James because he's so classist and misogynistic he can't perceive a kind teacher from a humble background in the Midwest as anything other than a moron. He then drags her into his robbery scheme against her will, and then beats her to death when he becomes paranoid she'll rat on him.
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