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| Plot Summary of The Girl at the Lion d'Or |
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"Twenty-year old Anne arrives at the Lion d'Or, a hotel in a small French town, Janvilliers, to take on the position of waitress. She is alone and penniless. She is fleeing from her past, in which she has tragically become an orphan. At the hotel she meets very interesting people, most of whom she does come to like. But she tells the secretive information about her past to no-one until she meets and falls in love with Charles Hartmann, a married Jewish lawyer. He has his own problems - a traumatic past at Verdun in the Great War, an estate that needs a lot of work, and a wife who is barren and whom he is not really in love with anymore. The love affair between Anne and Charles is passionate and brings happiness to them both. But when Anne tells him her secret of her father's tragic death, an outcome of the war, and how that ostracized her and her mother, how then her mother died as well, Charles' conflicting feelings of love, pity,and guilt become so intense that their relationship is threatened."
Tena van't Foort, Resident Scholar
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| Review Analysis of The Girl at the Lion d'Or |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Tone of book?
- thoughtful
Time/era of story
- 1930's-1950's
Internal struggle/realization?
Yes
Is this an adult or child's book?
- Adult or Young Adult Book
Coping with loss of loved one(s)
Yes
Loss of...
- parents
Main Character
Gender
- Female
Profession/status:
- servant
Age:
- 20's-30's
Ethnicity/Nationality
- French
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Main Adversary
Identity:
- society
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- a moderate amount
Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings?
- 4 (a fair amount)
Europe
Yes
European country:
- France
Small town?
Yes
Style
Person
- mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death?
- generic/vague references to death/punishment
Amount of dialog
- significantly more descript than dialog
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