If you sympathize with Andrea, you’ll learn how to stand up for yourself, at the very least. The Devil Wears Prada gives you a lesson no matter which angle you look at it from. Nothing, I repeat, nothing gives you the right to treat your employees like slaves and treating them like their dumb and useless. But does that really matter? If Miranda is being such a devil, does it really matter if you were prepared or not? I don’t know much about the fashion industry, but if people are really like Miranda Priestly in there, then I’m glad I’m not a part of it. There might be people who say that maybe Andrea should have prepared herself before she took the job. He is annoying, creepy, and all shades of pervy! The character I hated the most was Christian Collinsworth.

Lily, Andrea’s best friend who is about to ruin her life but doesn’t want to admit that it’s coming.Īndrea’s family, including her parents, sister, brother-in-law, and nephew – they don’t appear as much in the story but where they do, they do make you sit up and notice. And that’s a tribute to the good writing that almost hits you.Įvery character has their own quirks that you sort of agree with, though time and again, you get annoyed by how they turn out to be.Īndrea, with her drive to succeed, gritting her teeth and rolling her eyes at Miranda’s unreasonable demands, turning into a different sort of Miranda in sections of her life.Īlex, the understanding boyfriend – too understanding for my liking and I felt Andrea didn’t deserve him.Įmily, the mercurial senior at work who taught Andrea everything and who shares a sort of Miranda-based bond with her. She doesn’t do exactly that, but I would have been even happier if she had. Maybe this is an explanation!’ But nope! At the end of the book, I was too much in hate with the character! I just wished Andrea would throw Miranda’s latte in her face and march out. There were times in the novel that I thought, ‘Huh. She is ghastly in her behavior, without a single excuse. But the original Miranda is an absolute witch. Y ou actually like Miranda Priestly because Meryl Streep makes her almost likeable. Watch the movie and you’ll see Meryl Streep step into Miranda’s shoes perfectly. What will Andrea do to stop unintentionally alienating her boyfriend, friends, and family? Will she be able to stop it? She is condescending, proud, thinks of everyone as her doormat, gives out the vaguest of descriptions and expects her assistants to follow through, treats everyone else as dumb (except maybe Nigel, the stylist), and so much more! Andrea suddenly finds herself becoming a 24-hour machine who is expected to be at Miranda’s beck and call, no matter the time. Miranda is a complicated woman to describe.

The Devil Wears Prada is the story of Andrea Sachs, who has just graduated and has been offered a job at Runway magazine, headed by a devil of a woman called Miranda Priestly.

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