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Crucially Kelderek is too afraid of being called a coward to object to this ill treatment.

Thereupon, he says sarcastically that these masks are just that — and offers the mask of a sniveling coward to Emily, a miserable miser to Wilfred, a twisted buffoon to Wilfred Jr., and a self-obsessed narcissist to Paula.

A 1948 Spanish motion picture, Alhucemas, tells the story of an army official in the time of Franco who transforms from a coward to a hero.