Code Name Verity Society and Class Quotes

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Quote #10

Sometimes Julie used to make me jealous—her cleverness, her ease with men, how posh she is—the grouse-shooting and the Swiss school and speaking three languages and being presented to the king in a blue silk ball gown—even her MBE after she caught those spies, like being knighted, and especially her term at Oxford—and I hate myself for ever having thought any of it was worth envying. (2.11.30)

Many of the things Maddie has envied in Julie are things that contributed to Julie being chosen for the work that led to her capture by the Gestapo. How does her life of privilege betray or aid Julie in the end?