“’Andrea, good morning! Hope I didn’t call too early,’ Sharon rang, her own voice full of sunshine. ‘I’m sure I didn’t, my dear, especially since you’ll have to be an early bird soon enough! I have some very good news. Miranda was very impressed with you and said she’s very much looking forward to working with you. Isn’t that wonderful? Congratulations, dear. How does is feel to be Miranda Priestly’s new assistant? I imagine that you’re just—‘
My head was spinning. I tried to pull myself off the couch to get some more coffee, water, anything that might clear my head and turn her words back into English, but I only sank further into the cushions. Was she asking me if I would like the job? Or was she making an official offer? I couldn’t make sense of anything she’d just said, anything other than the fact that Miranda Priestly had liked me.
‘—delighted with the news. Who wouldn’t be right?’”(30).
I really like this quote because of the way the author stopped in the middle of Sharon speaking to show the thoughts of Andrea. This quote creates an image in my head like during a movie when someone is talking to another person and that person is thinking other thoughts in their head trying to make sense of what the other person had just told them. I also like how the author uses different styles of writing. For example to show how Sharon is speaking she said “Sharon rang, her own voice full of sunshine,” instead of just saying Sharon spoke or something like that. I also find it interesting that when Andrea is thinking about how she just got her new job that they didn’t actually offer it to her they just expected that she would take it because “a million girls would die for the job” although Andrea really is not dying to have the job she just wants to become a journalist. Another thing that I like about this quote is the sentence length variety that the author chooses to use. She has a really short sentence next to a long almost run on sentence. To me this keeps me interested in reading more because it is not boring there is more variety to make it interesting and fun to read.
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I thought your response to the quote was really creative because not everybody would have pictured what you pictured while reading that quote, but it made me think of it that way after reading your response. Anyways I have seen the movie but never read the book, and I was wondering if the book is anything like the movie?
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