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Plot Summary of The Other One
"A playwright sees his work through to theater production, while his son alerts his wife to the drama played out at his home: a ménage à trois. Colette keeps the focus on all characters involved, but uses the wife's point of view."
Regina Pounds, Resident Scholar

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Plot
Time/era of story - 1930's-1950's
Romance/Romance Problems Yes
Kind of romance: - playing footsy while inconveniently married
Kids growing up/acting up? Yes
Family, struggle with Yes
Struggle with: - Father (or standin)
Family, loving relations Yes
Special relationship with - mother
Internal struggle/realization? Yes
Struggle over - vague finding self/purpose in life (i.e. no plot to book)
Is this an adult or child's book? - Adult or Young Adult Book
Taboo sex story? Yes

Main Character
Gender - Female
Profession/status: - homemaker
Age: - 20's-30's
Eccentric/Mental Yes
Eccentric: - eccentric
How sensitive is this character? - soggy whimpering jelly muffin
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - average physique

Main Adversary
Identity: - Female
Age: - 20's-30's
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - throughout most of the book.
How sensitive is this character? - hard edged
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters
Physique - average physique

Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings? - 7 (a good amount)
Europe Yes
European country: - France
City? Yes

Style
Person - mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death? - no torture/death
Sex in book? Yes
What kind of sex: - vague references
Unusual Style: - No single main character?
Amount of dialog - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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