“The stare I received in response was part disbelief, part disgust. ‘Um, yeah,’ emphasizing the ‘yeah’ and squinting her eyes as if to say, You total f***ing idiot. ‘That is Jessica Duchamps.’ She waited. I waited. Nothing. ‘You do know who that is, right?’ Again, I ran lists through my mind, trying to connect something with this new information, but I was quite sure I’d never, ever heard of her. Besides, this game was getting old.
‘Emily, I’ve never seen her before, and her name doesn’t sound familiar. Would you please tell me who she is?’ I asked, struggling to remain calm. The ironic part was that I didn’t even care who she was, but Emily was clearly not going to give this up until she’d made me look like a complete and total loser.
Her smile this time was patronizing. ‘Of course. You just had to say so. Jessica Duchamps is, well, a Duchamps! You know, as in the most successful French restaurant in the city! Her parents own it—isn’t that crazy? They are so unbelievably rich.”
‘Oh, really?’ I said, feigning enthusiasm for the fact that this super-pretty girl was worth knowing because her parents were restaurateurs. “That’s great,” (49, 50).
I chose this quote because I find it to be somewhat amusing. I think it is funny that Emily was making a huge deal over this girl, Jessica, because her parents own a restaurant and are extremely rich. I also find it to be somewhat shallow of her. All the girls in the office where Andrea work are all superficial and care only about what they look like and the famous designers and who has the most money. It is funny to find Andrea working there because she is the total opposite, she actually wants the job so she can get a better job latter on and not about all the fashion stuff. What makes this quote funny to me is the sarcasm that you can sense in Emily and Andrea’s voice. The way the author wrote Emily’s line “Um, yeah,” with the comma between the words makes you pause in between and then the word “yeah” is italicized gives a hint of sarcasm in Emily’s voice. When Andrea was talking she was just like “’Oh, really?’ I said, with feigning enthusiasm” makes me picture Andrea being almost let down I guess you could say because her parents own a restaurant and she probably thought it was something a lot more interesting that a restaurant. The tone of Andrea's voice tells me that she is tired of all these girls, even though she is amused by them, and how shallow they are and that they make a big deal about things that are not worth making a huge deal over. The style of the authors writing makes the imagery a lot more fun and interesting and it’s almost like I’m there so I enjoy reading this book.
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I don’t think that I could be in Andrea’s position. It bothers me when people make a big deal about people, who are only important because they have a lot of money. She is stuck in glorified high school it seems like. I could never be stuck in a fashion job where you are only important if you have money. I agree with you when you said that you could see it happening, I could picture it too!
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