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Lady Chatterley's Lover
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Plot Summary of Lady Chatterley's Lover
"A beautiful, tender, sensual story about two people alienated from life, and alienated from each other because of their different social "positions," who ultimately come together and breathe life into one another."
Fran Upman, Resident Scholar

Review Analysis of Lady Chatterley's Lover
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Plot
Tone of book? - thoughtful
Time/era of story - 1900-1920's
Romance/Romance Problems Yes
Kind of romance: - seduction (yum!) - playing footsy while inconveniently married
Political/social activism Yes
Plotlet: - general liberal/left wing activism
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
Brain/Body disability? - physical disability
Lover is - of a different social class

Main Character
Gender - Female
Profession/status: - wealthy
Age: - 20's-30's
Eccentric/Mental Yes
Eccentric: - emotionally unstable
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events? Yes
How sensitive is this character? - sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - average physique

Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings? - 8 (a significant amount)
Europe Yes
European country: - England/UK

Style
Person - mostly 3rd
Sex in book? Yes
What kind of sex: - touching of anatomy - actual description of hetero sex - descript. of female anat. (the big V) - descript. of nude males (the big P)
Lot of foul language? Yes
Amount of dialog - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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