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Plot Summary of The Spy Wore Red
"While working as a model at Hattie Carniegie, Aline Griffith is selected and trained for espionage during WWII. Undercover in Madrid, Aline mingles with Spain's high society to gather intelligence from Nazi sympathizers. She decodes secret messages and falls in love with a possible traitor."
Alma Zeno, Resident Scholar

Review Analysis of The Spy Wore Red
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Plot
War/Cloak & Dagger story? - Spying for secrets
War/Spying Yes

Subject of Biography
Gender - Female
Profession/status: - spy
Ethnicity - White
How sensitive is this person? - sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence - Smarter than most other people
Physique - average physique

Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings? - 5 (an average amount)
Europe Yes
City? Yes
Misc setting - Fancy Mansion - moving train
Century: - 1930's-1950's

Style
Person - mostly 1st
Accounts of torture and death? - generic/vague references to death/punishment
Book makes you feel? - encouraged
Commentary on society? Yes
Commentary on - decency - war
Writer's slant towards subject: - neutral
Story of entire life, or part? - story of set of events during life
Autobiography? Yes
Pictures/Illustrations? - None
How much dialogue in bio? - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
How much of bio focuses on most famous period of life? - 0-25% of book
How much is philosophy rather than life story? - 0-25% of book
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