Summary

Summary



Bridget Jones was a thirty year old woman still living home with her parents in New York. She writes a diary for a whole year, from January the first to December the 26. The book is chiefly about Bridget Jones’s private life where she tells about her looks, feelings and people around her. At New Year she starts writing a diary where she mainly writes about her love life, carrier, family and friends. At the beginning of the book she writes about things she wants to change for the better, for example her weight, smoking and drinking. Every day she writes down in details. Through the novel her bad habits starts to change. The book is mainly about Bridget’s private life.Whenever it was a party that included men, her mother and a friend of hers Una Alconbury tried to find a man for Bridget. When Bridget’s parents held a Christmas party, her mother knew that a rich and well educated attorney was going to join the party. Through the whole evening her mother and Una desperately tried to get Bridget to talk with him. The first impression of each other was embarrassing. Mark tried to start a conversation, but it didn’t end so well. Mark thought she was a fool and Bridget thought he was a rude and arrogant. Bridget worked as an employed in a publishing industry. Her boss, Daniel Cleaver, was the man in her dreams. They flirted openly at work and sent text-messages to each other via the computer. Bridget found out that Cleaver was cheating on her, when she caught him red handed with another much younger and more attractive woman. Bridget quitted her job and she randomly chose a job as a journalist for a local television station. A little while after the breakup with Cleaver she starts bumping into Mark at dinner parties. At on of the parties Mark admitted that he had feelings for her, although he didn’t found her interesting in the first place. Bridget also developed feelings for him and they started seeing each other. Cleaver and Darcy had a past together. They were bitter enemies. Cleaver showed up at a party and found Mark and Bridget talking together. He marched over to them and started arguing with Mark. At the end Mark pounced Cleaver in the head so he felled to the grown. Bridget bends beside Cleaver and said that she never wanted to be together with him.

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