sex&the city themes/personalities

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was curious so i looked up some themes on personality traits on sex & and the city characters.



which character do you feel you identify with? Carrie, Miranda, Charlotte, or Samantha



i know in real life, two of these ladies do NOT get along. they have a hate thing going on...



https://www.dailydot.com/via/carrie-bradshaw-satc-chris-noth/



"My best friend, Cathy, has a theory about women who grew up watching Sex and the City: We all grow up hating Miranda, but then, “in a cruel, M. Night Shyamalan-level twist, we all grow up to be exactly like her.” I agree with this theory to an extent, with one addendum: I think the same thing happens, but with Carrie, the neurotic, big-haired, harem pants-wearing sex columnist played by Sarah Jessica Parker.

I was reminded of Cathy’s theory earlier this week, when Chris Noth, who played Carrie’s on-again off-again paramour Mr. Big, gave an interview effectively calling Parker’s character a “whore”:

One of the things I tell people is that he never tried to pretend he was anything other than what he was. It was [Carrie] who tried to pretend he was something he wasn’t. He was always honest about himself—he never cheated on her. The relationship just didn’t work, and he went on to get married while she went on to… How many boyfriends did she have? She was such a whore! [laughs] There’s a misconception that Carrie was a victim of him, and that’s not the case—she was a strong, smart woman.

It was a dumb and misogynistic statement, to be sure, and to Sex and the City fans it came off a bit like Noth was biting the hand that fed him. (“How dare he forsake her? She made him,” Cathy incredulously put it, though I’m not sure if she was referring to Parker and Noth themselves or to their characters.) But it was not surprising, nor was it unprecedented. Since the show went off the air nearly 10 years ago, fans have been hating on Carrie Bradshaw to the point where, in a 2013 essay for the New Yorker, writer Emily Nussbaum referred to her as “the first female anti-hero on television,” on the same level as Tony Soprano or Al Swearengen or Walter White.





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i find it real funny that people hated miranda the most but ended up like her— really?

you hate what you are? or you hate people who have the same characteristics as you?

would this apply to why opposites attract..

and why Miranda's character (who is this strong powerful career minded woman who needs to be in control ends up with a wishy washy bartender who can't get his life straight and cheats on her later?)



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i think personally i'm more like Charlotte, because i'm not the career oriented ball busting Miranda, but i'm not Jessica Parker's character either...or the sexy sultry vampy Samantha who is probably the sweetest of them all. but charlotte's character is nicer. i'm not that nice, although i am but not really.



so charlotte's character is too sweet but push over... always trying to mediate.

but i identify with her more because i like traditional marriage and she ends up with a man who likes to take care of her and all she wanted is love and be cared for.

and Miranda and Samantha are bitchy types, where they aren't pushover types.

Carrie is the odd one out, she's the crazy dreamy up in the clouds chick.



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Posted by Juliiette
they changed miranda a lot. character and especially appearance. made her way prettier and more soft. that's the secret. in what way we all end up like her? i wish.


i didnt know she was hated so much. lol

i couldnt find her hate-able at all.



it is Carrie Bradshaw in the end that is hated the MOST.

and these in the article show why:



"That said, Noth’s comments really rubbed me the wrong way, and I feel compelled to jump in and rescue Carrie while her Patricia Field tutu is being raked through the coals. Here are some of the most common complaints against Carrie—with some reasons why I think all of these arguments are more flawed than her character.

1) She’s selfish

This is probably the most oft-cited argument against Carrie, and the one that’s most difficult to disprove. To the extent that you could say one of the four incredibly self-involved heroines on SATC was the most selfish, Carrie was hands-down the worst; hell, there’s even an entire episode about how she had to get a psychiatrist because her friends couldn’t stand her constantly whining about her breakup.

But I’d argue that her selfishness is what makes her the most well-developed character on the show. This is not because it makes her more flawed and “relatable,” per se. (If flaws made a character more “relatable,” then I’d want to grab a beer with Marnie Michaels on Girls, instead of constantly struggling not to punch through the TV when Allison Williams’ skincare commercials come on.) It’s because the quality we interpret as selfishness—the constant interior monologues, the over-reliance on the first-person—is actually an extended peek at her inner life.

If Carrie weren’t so self-involved, we wouldn’t know nearly as much about her as we do: her abortion, the fact that she lost her virginity on a pool table at age 17, her fear of clowns. It’s a mistake on the viewer’s part to view her self-involvement as a grating character flaw, when in fact it’s just indicative of really good writing.

2) She writes terrible puns

It might seem contradictory to list the worst examples of Carrie’s wordplay on the show, right on the heels of talking about how good the writing was, but here goes: “From Jewish to poo-ish.” “If you’re tired, you take a nap-a, you don’t move to Napa.” And so on and so forth. SATC fans are all familiar with these gems, and if we have half a brain, we probably consider them among the most embarrassing aspects of the show. It’s also commonly cited by SATC detractors as evidence of Carrie’s lack of writing ability, which makes it all the less convincing that she has a celebrated authorial career.

To which I would say: Yes, Carrie is a terrible writer. Yes, her puns are embarrassing and exhausting. Yes, if she existed IRL, she’d probably be working for Hello Giggles and her column would get torn apart by Gawker on a near-daily basis. But that’s kind of the point, isn’t it? This is a woman who, by all accounts, spent her 20s club-hopping and sleeping with a panoply of unavailable men; when you spend that much time at Tunnel in the ’80s, it’s kind of difficult to focus on building your career and developing your writing abilities. (Also, notice the show never explicitly references her writing abilities, or lack thereof, as the case might be.)

Writing is hard work; in order to do it well, you have to give up brunches and gallery openings and cocktail parties every once in a while, and spend a few hours hunkering down at your keyboard. Given how often we see Carrie doing the former, and how little we see her doing the latter, it makes total sense that the character wouldn’t exactly be Dorothy Parker.

3) She’s materialistic

One of the things that’s happened to Sex and the City’s reputation over the past few years is that people have argued that the show was anti-feminist, in that it focused far less on the interpersonal relationships and more on glitzy shoes, bags, and hats. A lot of this critique stems from the movies’ inordinate focus on brand names and consumer culture (hell, one of the songs off the first film’s soundtrack is called “Labels or Love”), which is totally fair. Often, these arguments center on Carrie, who (with her love for expensive footwear and ridiculous $ 600 hats) is arguably symbolic of the show’s espousal of consumerism.



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Posted by Juliiette
must admit i felt the transfer of shame with carrie's character with the mr big. so delusional fot the age she was playing. kind of a gold digger. not literally for money but for status.

but love the show anyway.

i would be friends with samantha!
i dont think she was a golddigger but she is materialistic. but yeah for status. she was definitely status seeking, unlike Miranda. (and samantha...samantha was for who caught her fancy)

she (Carrie's character) does date very wealthy men though...that much is true. lol

i never see her with just poor blokes, dating bartenders or janitors.

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must admit i felt the transfer of shame with carrie's character with the mr big. so delusional fot the age she was playing. kind of a gold digger. not literally for money but for status.

but love the show anyway.

i would be friends with samantha!
i dont think she was a golddigger but she is materialistic. but yeah for status. she was definitely status seeking, unlike Miranda. (and samantha...samantha was for who caught her fancy)

she (Carrie's character) does date very wealthy men though...that much is true. lol

i never see her with just poor blokes, dating bartenders or janitors.



she did they date everyone. but was really into just powerful.

idk, the show didn't intend to make main character as perfect. the idea was that she stays alone at the end, but for the public they made a happy ending. she is kinda of a mixture of posh and trashy. and that's how they dressed her.

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Samantha could hire a bell boy to carry her bags and then later get it on with him in the room if she found him handsome and sexy. lol

Naw i dont think Carrie's character would be alone. If Mr. Big wouldn't be around, she would probably end up with another rich fellow. It's her character that is consistent. even if she were an old lady, she'd still be with some rich bloke.