Character Analysis
(Avoiding Spoilers)
Living... in a flat in London. She lives by herself, which is making her paranoid. She has a constant fear of dying alone and being found three weeks later half-eaten by an Alsatian dog without anyone noticing. Her domineering mother tries to help her out by fixing her up all the time, but she doesn't like any of her ideas.
Profession... in publishing. But she hasn't been getting much work done lately because she's too busy trading saucy texts with her boss.
Interests... indulging in more Mars bars, cheesy TV game shows, cigarettes, and cheap wine than she should.
Relationship Status... involved with two very different men. One is her boss, Daniel Cleaver, who loves the short skirts she wears. But he is the type of man women date but never marry. The other is Mark Darcy, a top lawyer her mother thinks she should marry. But Bridget can't imagine dating him -- especially after seeing him in his juvenile outfit.
Challenge... feeling inadequate. As she says, ''I am a child of Cosmopolitan culture, have been traumatized by supermodels and too many quizzes and know that neither my personality nor my body is up to it if left to its own devices. I can't take the pressure.''
Personality... neurotic, overwhelmed, and awkward. In other words, she is perfectly normal. Bridget verbalizes what many of us are thinking and won't admit. And in doing so, she can be hilarious, allowing us to laugh at the challenges in everyday life.
Get to Know her in...
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The story picks up four weeks after the first film, and already Bridget Jones is becoming uncomfortable in her relationship with Mark Darcy. Apart from discovering that he's a conservative voter, she has to deal with a new boss, strange contractor, and the worst vacation of her life.
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Breaking up with Mark Darcy leaves Bridget Jones over 40 and single again. Feeling that she has everything under control, Jones decides to focus on her career as a top news producer. Suddenly, her love life comes back from the dead when she meets a dashing and handsome American named Jack. Things couldn't be better, until Bridget discovers that she is pregnant. Now, the befuddled mom-to-be must figure out if the proud papa is Mark or Jack.
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A chaotic Bridget Jones meets a snobbish lawyer, and he soon enters her world of imperfections.
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Meet Bridget Jones—a 30-something Singleton who is certain she would have all the answers if she could: lose 7 pounds, stop smoking, and develop Inner Poise. Here is the laugh-out-loud daily chronicle of a hilarious year in the life of the devastatingly self-aware Bridget Jones; a year in which she resolves to: reduce the circumference of each thigh by 1 1/2 inches, visit the gym three times a week not merely to buy a sandwich, and form a functional relationship with a responsible adult. Bridget struggles to keep her life on an even keel—or at least afloat. Whenever her plans meet with disaster, she manages to pick herself up, go out on the town, and tell herself it will be all right in the morning, when life will definitely be different this time and totally alcohol, calorie, and perverted-misogynist free.
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Bridget Jones, beloved Singleton and global phenomenon, is back with a bump in Bridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries. 8:45 P.M. Realize there have been so many times in my life when have fantasized about going to a scan with Mark or Daniel: just not both at the same time. Before motherhood, before marriage, Bridget with biological clock ticking very, very loudly, finds herself unexpectedly pregnant at the eleventh hour: a joyful pregnancy which is dominated, however, by a crucial but terribly awkward question – who is the father? Mark Darcy: honourable, decent, notable human rights lawyer? Or Daniel Cleaver: charming, witty, notable fuckwit? 9:45 PM It’s like they’re two halves of the perfect man, who’ll spend the rest of their lives each wanting to outdo the other one. And now it’s all enacting itself in my stomach. In this gloriously funny, touching story of baby-deadline panic, maternal bliss, and social, professional, technological, culinary and childbirth chaos, Bridget Jones – global phenomenon and the world’s favorite Singleton – is back with a bump.
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Bridget Jones, the main character in the novel and the film, "Bridget Jones's Diary," shares her own ideas on homemaking, cooking, relationships, weight loss, and other subjects in a parody of a self-help book.
