As you all know, I am currently reading The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger. The main character, Andy Sachs, is the new assistant for the editor in chief of the most notable fashion magazine in New York city, Runway. Andy's boss, Miranda Priestly, makes her new job nearly impossible. Miranda has a quite unpleasant disposition and is rude to all of her employees, but she is most ungrateful for Andy, who does virtually everything for her. Although her job causes Andy extreme amounts of stress, working for Miranda for a year promises her an opportunity to work anywhere in the journalism world she would like. However, getting to that point will require Andy to work 24/7 Miranda and that entails anything from tracking down random furniture she wants or getting unreleased books for her children in less than a days notice. Miranda seems to have an unquenchable thirst for the tears of those around her, as it seems she is simply trying to make people go crazy. Just when you think Andy is going to give up, there is always someone there to help her out. A reoccurring signpost throughout the story is "words of the wiser."
Andy is clearly naive and receives all kinds of advice from those who work at Runway, including Miranda's most recent assistant, Emily. Although most of these people are not much older than Andy, they are wiser in that they have been working with Miranda for a long time and know how to get around her traps for failure. Another signpost in The Devil Wears Prada is "again and again." Throughout the book there is a lot of repetition. For example, for a majority of the story, Miranda patronizes Andy by calling her by the wrong name. This is mentioned numerous times as Andy believes that it is Miranda's way of disparaging her, making her feel worthless and unimportant.
Andy is clearly naive and receives all kinds of advice from those who work at Runway, including Miranda's most recent assistant, Emily. Although most of these people are not much older than Andy, they are wiser in that they have been working with Miranda for a long time and know how to get around her traps for failure. Another signpost in The Devil Wears Prada is "again and again." Throughout the book there is a lot of repetition. For example, for a majority of the story, Miranda patronizes Andy by calling her by the wrong name. This is mentioned numerous times as Andy believes that it is Miranda's way of disparaging her, making her feel worthless and unimportant.