Essay About Andrea Sachss Job And Elias-Clark Publishing

Devil or Not?
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A million girls would kill for Andrea Sachss job. She must be so
lucky to get to work for the most powerful woman in fashion
publishing. It must be so great to get all those fabulous clothes
and rub elbows with celebrities at parties. If anyone else says
those words to Andrea, shes going to stab that person to death
with the spike heel on her Manolo Blahnik sandal. The approximate
cost of said sandal is one-and-a-half weeks pay, but thats all
right Elias-Clark Publishing will pay for it to be fixed.
Andreas boss, Runway magazines editor-in-chief Miranda
Priestly, is demanding, unrealistic, powerful and a guaranteed
ticket to any job in publishing, assuming Andrea can survive a year
of working for her. Though Andreas real goal in life is to write
for the New Yorker, she casts a wide net of resumes after
graduating from Brown University, hoping to get a job thats
anything but mundane. Not knowing anything about the fashion
industry and not bothering to hide that fact on her job interview,
Andrea applies for a job as a junior editorial assistant
(translation: salaried slave labor) at Runway and lands it
anyway. Suddenly, shes the envy of half the publishing and fashion
industry…the other half knows better than to envy Mirandas
assistants.
As we witness Andreas self-pitying diatribe on the superficial
fashion world, and how it takes over her life and makes her forsake
her relationships with her family, her best friend and her
boyfriend, the voice falls flat and begins to drone around page
seventy-five. Though the setting itself is a fast-paced world, the
pacing of the narration is incredibly slow. Andreas growth as a
character is limited at best, self-discoveries are few, and the
predictable ending is akin to that of a made-for-television
movie.
Is the reader