# Discworld Reading Club 4: Mort

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [July 17, 2005, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discworld-reading-club-4-mort/312864 "2005-07-17T08:25:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![Captain\_Carrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@Captain\_Carrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Carrot)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2005, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discworld-reading-club-4-mort/312864/21 "2005-08-10T18:55:10Z")

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> [@The Gaspode](#):
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> DEATH is, ahaha, getting much more fleshed out. There is however a great big plot hole. Early in the book he hints, in non too subtle ways, that Mort might be in line to inherit the business and that he will look favorably upon a union between Mort and Ysabel. But when DEATH comes back for the big showdown, his pissed off that Mort has taken the liberty to run his house, business and gotten involved with Ysabel.

I don’t think it’s a plot hole so much as unstated assumptions made by the Big D and an internal conflict. I think he expected Mort to come into his own slowly and under his own eye; instead, Mort suddenly starts interfering with everything. Also, he might have been hit in the gut with the realization that Mort taking over really does mean Mort taking over and him not being in charge anymore.

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