Why was Yvonne chosen to be wipped?
Does the book give any explanaition why?
shareit was a lottery organized by Ann Marie, and total chance which woman was whipped.
At three in the afternoon, beneath the copper beech where the garden chairs were grouped about a round, white-marble table, Anne-Marie would bring out the token box. Each girl would take a token. Whoever drew the lowest number was then taken to the music room and arranged on the whipping post as O had been that first day. She then had to point to (save for O, who was exempted until her departure) Anne-Marie's right or left hand, in each of which she was holding a white or black ball. If she chose black, she was flogged; white, she was not. Anne-Marie never resorted to chicanery, even if chance condemned or spared the same girl several days in a row. Thus the torture of little Yvonne, who sobbed and cried, was repeated four days running. Her thighs, like her breasts crisscrossed with a network of lash marks
and here's the description of O whipping yvonne
But how admirably suited to blows and irons was little Yvonne how lovely it was to hear her moans and sighs, how lovely too to witness her body soaked with perspiration, and what a pleasure to wrest the moans and the sweat from her. For on two occasions Anne-Marie had handed O the thonged whip - both times the victim had been Yvonne - and told her to use it. The first time, for the first minute, she had hesitated, and at Yvonne's first scream, O had recoiled and cringed, but as soon as she had started in again and Yvonne's cries had echoed anew, she had been overwhelmed with a terrible feeling of pleasure, a feeling so intense that she had caught herself laughing in spite of herself, and she had found it almost impossible to restrain herself from striking Yvonne as hard as she could. Afterward she had remained next to Yvonne throughout the entire period of time she was kept tied up, embracing her from time to time. In some ways, she probably resembled Yvonne. At least one was led to suspect as much by the way Anne-Marie felt about them both. Was it O's silence, her meekness that endeared her to Anne-Marie?
Thanks a lot. Was Yvone a bitch in the novel like in the movie?
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No, they were friends.
The 1975 film takes some liberties with characters from the book. In the book, O stays at Anne-Marie's house in Samois together with three other girls; Colette, Claire and Yvonne.
In the film, there are four other Samois girls; Andrée, Therese, Claire and Yvonne.
As far as their personalities, the film changes things around compared to the book. In the book, Claire is Anne-Marie's personal property and Yvonne (who is short and curvy, not the tall girl in the film) is the one with the labia rings who has the misfortune of getting whipped three days in a row. The film has no Colette character at all.
Also, the film has a Therese character who doesn't turn up in the book. She is a combination of Claire, Anne-Marie's property, and Natalie, a character too young to include in a film like this.
Yvonne in the book resembles Claire in the film, who is the one with the piercing and the rings.
The slightly bitchy film version of Yvonne has no real counterpart in the book. (in Eric Rochat's 1990s "The Series" version, there is however a Colette character with similar personality).
In the film, we - and O - have already met both Therese and Andrée at Roissy earlier. Andrée's character is more expanded in the film. During O's branding, she breaks down and decides to leave.