Carrie Bradshaw
“I’m thinking balls are to men, what purses are to women. It’s just a little bag but we’d feel naked in public without it.”
Stepping into the world of the adorable Ms. Bradshaw means also stepping into the world of relationships, love, and sex. Writing a weekly column for the New York Star, Carrie delves into the lives of her close friends and regularly asks questions about life. Like “Do women just want to be rescued?”; “Are men just women with balls?” and “Can you make a mistake and miss your fate?” Being a writer, she has covered so many aspects of life, making a research out of her personal experiences and her friends, covering almost anything from fairy tales to sexual politics to ‘cock tales.’ Carrie is one vulnerable woman and she admits it. She is over-analytical in all stuffs and comes up with questions and possible answers in everything they encounter. She’s the ultimate fashion icon, whatever she wears turns into an international trend, she has such an obsession for designer clothes, specially for shoes. Carrie has other enthusiasms as well, and she is such a Big enthusiast, a Mr. Big enthusiast, that is. She is totally attached to this special man in her life, Mr. Big, though Big is unwilling to commit to her. She is so totally into him and she can take all the pain and suffering from being in an affair with Big. Until Big married somebody else. Carrie was jolted back to reality and decided she needed a cure and break from all of the Big stuff. She reverted back to her old ways and dating and flings.
Until she met the second biggest guy in her life, Aidan Shaw. Aidan is sweet, romantic, committed and sensitive. Carrie can’t help but fall from him. The two were so in love, no doubt about it. But when Big came back to Carrie’s life, saying his marriage is a disaster, Carrie wasn’t able to control herself, she fell again, though she tried to fight it. Overridden with guilt, Carrie ended the illegal affair and confessed it with Aidan. Just like any sensible man, Aidan left Carrie. But soon enough, they got back together and now they are more in love. Until another problem arised, Aidan wanted to marry her, but Carrie isn’t ready but she sure loves Aidan. Aidan’s insecurity was once again an issue, and soon, they separated.
Carrie is the typical girl you’d like bump into the streets. A girl that falls so madly in love, and usually blows it off. Her experiences in love and being heartbroken seemed not to be instilled in her long-term memory.. she keeps repeating the same mistakes over and over again (I am sure though that she has no problem in her hippocampus). Her first leading man, Mr. Big, is sure passionate enough, and intimate enough. But not committed enough. Though Carrie has all three, Big never showed any consideration for this. Entering Big’s antithesis, Aidan is more like of the three. She loves Carrie very much, is more than passionate for her, and very committed. The last of the three, the commitment issue, struck Carrie. She never thought of it before, the marriage thing. She even threw up when she accidentally learned Aidan’s plan to propose (she most definitely isn’t the commitment type). After careful consideration, she realized that hey, she loves this guy so much and there’s no one else she’d like to be with but Aidan. She realized shed had the intimacy, the passion, so she guessed completing it would do no harm, adding the commitment. So she accepted the proposal for marriage and proposal for living in together. Carrie is rather unpredictable. She showed no excitement nor interest in planning her wedding. In her attempt to do so, she had an anxiety attack in trying to fit a wedding gown, she suddenly couldn’t breathe, she was trembling and later rashes appeared. Was she allergic to the gown fabric? Or rather to the idea of marriage? I’m guessing she’s allergic to the latter. She told Aidan that she’s not ready. But Aidan was really eager, so he was disappointed. This disappointment led to mistrust, doubt and their eventual separation, as painful as it is for two people so in love but couldn’t get together. Aidan is the marrying type, Carrie’s not. They just thought they weren’t for each other (they made a rationalization). This breakup is such a big event in her life, such a big stressor adding up the eviction notice for her apartment. How does a girl cope up with such problem? Well, of course with the emotional help from her friends, not to mention the financial help for her apartment. Oh, I would just like to commend how wonderful (and strong) it is for Carrie to rekindle her friendship with big, take note just friendship, purely intimacy no strings attached (nor sex attached).
Carrie Bradshaw's Famous Lines:
“I would literally be the girl who lived in her shoes!”
“Girls, I am not tampax central. Put on lists: Buy tampax.”
“The world may not always play fair. But at least it’s got one hell of a sense of humor.”
“No special man to wish me happy birthday. No god damn soul mates. I am 35 and alone.”