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Plot Summary of Light a Penny Candle
"This is a story of two young women who meet as children and have a very close and wonderful relationship throughout their lives. It is a story of misguided love and unreturned love and unsatisfactory relationships for each of these women."
Delight Comphel, Resident Scholar

Review Analysis of Light a Penny Candle
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Plot
Difficult/unusual lover? Yes
How difficult? - wild lover - very shy/inexperienced
Seduction/coercion/force Yes
Struggling with whom? - Dad
Who is... - who is "out of it"
Who seduces whom? - man seducing woman
Family focus? Yes
Family, hating Yes
Family, sick/caring for Yes

Main Male Character
Profession/status: - small businessman
Age/status: - 20's-30's
Has unusual powers? Yes
How sexual is this person? - somewhat promiscuious
Sex makes him - indifferent - wild
Sex has good effect on him Yes
Sex makes him - confident
Sex has bad effect on him Yes
How sensitive is this character? - middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - average physique

Main Female Character
Age/status: - 20's-30's
How sexual is this person? - very picky
How romantic is this person? - very romantic
effect of sexing - confused
Sex has bad effect on her Yes
Sex has good effect on her Yes
Effect of sexing - obedient
How sensitive is this character? - middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - average physique

Setting
Europe Yes
European country: - England/UK
Small town? Yes
Small town people: - nice, like Andy/Opie/Aunt Bee

Style
Accounts of torture and death? - no torture/death
What % of story is romance related? - 70%
Sex in book? Yes
Focus of story - Her
Consequences of sex - abortion
How much dialog - significantly more descript than dialog
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Maeve Binchy Resident Scholar Profiles

TOP SCHOLAR:
  
Delight Comphel  

SCHOLARS:
Colleen  Angeline  


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