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Carol

Patricia Highsmith

3.96 AVERAGE

emotional tense
adventurous emotional reflective medium-paced
challenging dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
emotional fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

yearnnnn
emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No
reflective slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character

2.5
“I don’t mean people ‘like that’. I mean two people who fall in love suddenly with each other, out of the blue. Say two men or two girls...I suppose it could happen, though, to almost anyone, couldn’t it?” (Highsmith 81)
challenging emotional hopeful reflective slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated