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 BRIDGET JONES’S DIARY

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“Bridget Jones's Diary” is a novel written by Helen Fielding in 1997. Helen Fielding was born in Yorkshire. She works full-time as a novelist and screenwriter in London and in Los Angeles.

This novel is written in the form of a personal diary and that’s why the point of view in the story is written in the first person. The novel is told by the voice of Bridget, the main character and I think it affects the book in an particular way

The diary is about a year in the life of Bridget Jones, a thirty to forty year old single working woman living in the city of London, who decides to start a new life. The main character is often written in a humorous way in her diary about her career, self-image, family, friends, and her romantic relationships. In the novel there are many conflicts. Fortunately are Bridget's good friends and family are the supporting characters in the story. Her parents live outside the city London, but she visits them often, they are playing a lesser role than her close friends. Bridget’s close friends are Shazzer, the strident feminist, Jude, the successful business woman, and Tom, who is gay. These friends are there for her throughout the novel. They give her advice about her relationships as the main plot in the novel is about Bridget’s love life. They also support her when other problems arise. In the course of the year she becomes involved in two relationships. The first relationship is with her boss Daniel Cleaver, who cheats on Bridget with an attractive younger woman. The second relationship is with a man named Mark Darcy, who works with the human-right. Bridget meets him over a dinner at a New Year’s party. She initially dislikes him when her mother reminds them they were childhood playmates.

Bridget is not only writes about her unsuccessful love life, she also obsesses about her various daily struggles with her weight, her career and her abuse of alcohol and her smoking. At the beginning of this novel Bridget is working in her handsome boss Daniel’s office, but after the breakup with him, she quits and begins working as a journalist for a television station. After the meeting with Mark, she starts writing a personal diary. Her goal is to stop smoking, lose weight and meet the love of her life. Early in the novel she meets a man. Her relationship to the man, Daniel begins with flirting at work, first over e-mails. Then they start dating and after a while Bridget learns from Daniel that he and Mark the human-right bloke have a history and as a result of that they hate each other. Daniel told Bridget about their fallout, telling her that Mark slept with his fiancée.

Later when she breaks up with Daniel and starts in a new job she and Mark start running in to each other. Mark tells Bridget that he likes her just the way she is, he also helps her at interviews and Bridget begins to get feelings for him. Bridget and Mark are getting attracted to each other, but at a dinner party her ex Daniel appears and Mark leaves the party. He comes back to face Daniel, they have words with each other and it is resulting in Daniel passing out. She finds out that Daniel has been lying to her about Mark and it was Daniel who actually had slept with Mark’s ex-wife when they still were married. Eventually Bridget tells Mark that she is in love with him, but when they are about to kiss for the first time, she runs into her bedroom to change her underwear, however, when she comes out, Mark has left and she finds out that he has been reading her diary .In the diary she has written insults about him. Then she runs out on the street looking for him and she finds him holding a new diary which he is going to give to her to give the relationship a new start.

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