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Plot Summary of Bittersweet Rain
"   Caroline Dawson grew up in a small southern town, the daughter of the town drunk. When she was fifteen she met Rink Lancaster, the son of one of the most influential men in town and a recent college graduate. For one summer they experienced an idyllic but chaste relationship until Rink suddenly disappeared from town without a word to Caroline. A couple days later she heard that Rink had married another girl in town who he had gotten pregnant.
   Twelve years later Rink returns to town when notified that his father is dying. The problem is that in the ensuing years his father Roscoe had secretly paid for Caroline to go to college, found her a job back in town and then convinced her to marry him. What Caroline wanted most was respectibility and she thought that by marrying Roscoe she would get that. Rink is torn apart by the fact that the girl he loved and still loved had married his father. Roscoe admitted on his death bed that he had only married Caroline to get back at Rink and that he knew Rink would never be able to touch Caroline again because of that.
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Nancy Wallace, Resident Scholar



Review Analysis of Bittersweet Rain
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Plot
Time/era of story - 1980's-1999
Searching/Rekindling love? Yes
Lost Lover: - rekindling love after long time

Main Male Character
Profession/status: - small businessman
Age/status: - 20's-30's
How sexual is this person? - several sexual encounters
How romantic is this person? - very romantic
How sensitive is this character? - sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters
Physique - very athletic

Main Female Character
Age/status: - 20's-30's
How sexual is this person? - naive virgin
How romantic is this person? - very romantic
How sensitive is this character? - sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - average physique

Setting
United States Yes
The US: - Deep South
Small town? Yes

Style
Person - mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death? - generic/vague references to death/punishment
What % of story is romance related? - nearly 100%
Sex in book? Yes
What kind of sex: - descript of kissing - impregnation/reproduction - actual description of sex - descript. of female anatomy (the big B's) - descript. of male nudity (the big P)
Focus of story - equally on him and her
Consequences of sex - pregnancy
How much dialog - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
How much sexing? - 3-4 sex acts
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