Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

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[[Oranges Are Not the Only Frui] is Jeanette Winterson's somewhat autobiographical [[Coming of Ag] novel about a young adopted girl discovering she's a lesbian in a fanatically Christian community. It was later adapted as a [[Miniserie] by the [[BB].

Tropes used in Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit include:
  • [[Adaptation Name Chang]: Jeanette is renamed Jessica in the TV adaptation, possibly to reduce the autobiographical elements of the story.
  • [[Adults Are Useles]: The only adult who even tries to help the protagonist is Mrs. Jewsberry who has possibly non-consensual and definitely underage sex with her.
  • [[Allegory Adventur]: The fairy tales that pepper the text usually mirror Jeanette's life in some fashion.
  • [[Arc Word]:
  • [[Author Avata]: Quite obviously Jeanette.
  • [[Biblical Motif]: Tons of them, including: casting the first stone, the walls of Jericho, Lot's wife, "to the pure all things are pure" (Titus 1.15), the number seven, and the names of the chapters.
  • [[Butch Lesbia]: Kinda. Jeanette says she sees no similarity between herself and men -- except that she always wears trousers. In the miniseries this is averted: she almost never wears trousers and yet is attracted to the femme Melanie.
  • [[Coming Out Stor]
  • [[Cool Old Lad]: Elsie
  • Double Standard Rape (Female on Female): Implied with the interactions between Jeanette and Mrs. Jewsberry.
  • [[Girls Lov]: With Melanie and later Katy.
  • Holier Than Thou: Melanie's husband has this attitude. So does Jeanette's mother and most of the congregation members.
  • [[Jane Eyr]: It's Jeanette's mother's favorite book. Later we find out that {{spoiler|her mother [[Fan Wank|changed the endin] so that Jane marries St. John.}}
  • [[Lipstick Lesbia]: In the miniseries.
  • Mentor Occupational Hazard: Elsie
  • Motif: The eponymous oranges. Also the rough brown pebble.
  • [[Nightmare Fetishis]: Jeanette was like this as a child.
  • No Sex Allowed: This seems to be the rule in Jeanette's community. Her parents adopted her to avoid having sex.
  • [[Only Sane Ma]: Jeanette for most of the story.
  • [[Religion Is Wron]: Or at least fundamentalism is.
  • [[Spiteful Spi]
  • Title Drop: Towards the end, when Jeanette's mother winds up with a ton of pineapple and everybody at the church eats lots of pineapple dishes for a while.
  • Tomboy and Girly Girl: Though all the other lesbians in the miniseries are [[Lipstick Lesbian|LipstickLesbian], the two who run the sweet shop are a butch/femme couple.
  • [[The Fundamentalis]: Jeanette's mother.
  • [[Theme Namin]: The chapters are named for the first eight books of the Christian [[The Bible|Bibl].

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