Sunday, November 27, 2016

Something Borrowed (A Novel by Emily Giffin)📑 Part 2





Something Borrowed 
(Character Profiles)



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Rachel👱👸
      - birthday in May
      - have watched the TV Series like the "Growing Pains", "Who's the Boss" and "Thirty Something."
      - is an attorney in a NY Firm, works at excruciating hours, is mean-spirited,  tedious tasks and have some sortvof hatred. 
      - got straight A's in high-school, went to college, graduated Magna cum Lauderdale,  took the LSAT,  and went straight to law school
     - is a disciplined👟🌞 kind of child who did her work on Friday afternoons, flosses every night and makes bed every morning
     - moved in a cul-de-sac in Naperville, Indiana in the summer of 1976
     - her first crush is Ethan
     - she puts her friends first in high school and is a brash and independent type of person 
     - she had awful hair days, pimples,  class pictures, having no right clothes, dateless for dances, baby fat,  getting cut from teams,  losing election for class treasurer. 
      - when she wanted to give herself a fresh start,  she would usually count to three and afterwards having a clean slate. 
     -her dream is to attend Notre Dame and finish her college studies there.
     - she loved SAL'S PIZZA. 

*Darcy Rhone👰
       - birthday in September 
       - have watched the TV Series like the "Growing Pains", "Who's the Boss" and "Thirty Something."
       -best friend of Rachel
       - had a PR Job
       - first love Doug Jackson (with blond hair, have wranglers that fit his butt
       - bolder than the other girls, prettiest girl in class
       - has a high cheekbones, have huge well spaced eyes;  have a dainty nose. 
    

*Dex Thaler
        - Darcy's fiancee
        -  they lived together at Bloomingdale's
        - had worked as an analyst at Goldman Sachs
        - he grew up in Westchester and is a Catholic 
        -he played basketball in highschool and considered Georgetown for his College 
        - he had an older sister named Tessa and went to Cornell and teaches high school English in Buffalo. 
        - his parents divorced when he was young and his father remarried.
        - his mother beat breast cancer
        -Grouch in the Morning. He does at least 50 push-ups before bed every night and never leaves dirty dishes on the counter.
       - he broke down when his grandfather died 
       - had 2 serious girlfriends named Suzanne Coleman who is a research analyst  and GOLDMAN SACHS who dumped him
      - he had dark speck in his left iris like an eye freckle.
      - likes working for Roger Bollinger (the head of his group.)


*Hillary
      - closest friend of Rachel from work
      - comes to work late everyday 
      - refuses to play the game that associates play
      -always leaving a jacket on the back of her chair
      - ex-boyfriend Corey of 4 years who is nice,  smart and all-around great guy. 

*Claire
       - Darcy's co-worker and  a snobbish girl from Greenwich.
        - he got a blind date named Skip who is a surgeon. It didn't go well, because be wasn't tall enough for him.
        - she cares too much about money and appearances.

*Mike O'Sullivan
          - have three generations of alumni in his family.
          - the president in his class
          - got into Notre Dame first

*Marcus
         - Dex's friend and one of his groomsmen
         - moved from San Francisco and New York
         - they'd becomed friends from Georgetown
         - never went to class and got high all the time.

*Jose
        - the apartment guard

*Annalise
        - she met her now-husband Greg and lost virginity to him
        - still has the same hairstyle-shoulder length w/ curled-under bangs
        - her face always round as persimmon

*Ethan
       - has an unruly hair, cheeks are pink and is hyper  and happy.
       - he likes to rotate his No. 2 pencil,  between full lips and always make bite marks in the eraser
       - he came from England and live there for the past two years
        - still compassionate as who really is
        - did well on the SAT's, graduated salutatorian and voted most likely than AMY CHOI,  the class valedictorian
        - went to Stanford, took a job at an investment bank even though he majored in art history and had no interest in finance
        - took writing, art,  photography classes, and had a bar tending job and summers in Alaska's fisheries.
        - writes for a magazine and is working for a book about London architecture.
        - had a basement flat in Kensington, have a furniture which is sleek and modern,  walls covered w/ abstract paintings and posters of jazz musicians.
        -friends with Martin who is very proper, went to Oxford, well dressed and attractive
        - sits with his legs at crossed knee
        - friends with Phoebe from East London an Amazon tall with untamed tomato red hair.

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OTHER CHARACTERS:

     *Hollis
           - used to work at Rachel's law firm but she quitted when she got engaged with Dewey Malone.

     *Dewey
           - unattractive and humorless,  but has a huge trust fund.

      *Brandi
            - Ethan's girlfriend with blue eyes.
            - a few months in romance,  she got pregnant
            - Ethan married her at City Hall in downtown Seattle. A homemade marriage feat B and W of two hiking.
            - she gave birth to a boy,  an Eskimo boy with coal black eyes almost immediately.
             - they annulled,  Brandi moved to Alaska

       *Nina
               - a chubby word processor from Staten Island with fake nails adorned with glitter art.
 
       *Kenny
               - the internal messenger from the mailroom

        *Erieda
               - from accounting

        *Jessica Pell
               - a fringe friend of Darcy and Rachel from high school

        *Brit Miller
              - who shamelessly worshiped and copied Darcy in high school.


        *Kim Frisby
                - a totally smart cheerleader, his husband named Jeff who graduated in their class and played baseball  with Brandon and Blaine and had kids who had twins named Stanley and Brick.

         *Julian (37)
               - a writer,  never been married.

         *June (80)
                - 4 ft tall,  massive wrinkled because of heavy smoking. Once lost a fakenail in Tommy Baxter's lasagna.

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                  Rachel and Darcy's Lovers 💜

Rachel's😘
      1. Brandon Beamer- he asked Rachel in senior year.
            - a Catholic. Didn't drink or do drugs. Felt guilty when discussing sex.
            - but they'd made-out in Brandon's station wagon back at his home.

    2. Hunter Bretz- from Mississippi.
            - she dated him at Duke University in her first semester.
            - both of them like to study (or pretend to), hang out and watch TV shows such as the 90210, Bev Hills and the Melrose Place.
            - he was scrawny and nerdy, he is also intelligent, had brown eyes too.

    3. Joey Merola
              - unexpected boyfriend when she kissed him and made out.
              - they'd first time sex too. LO/OVRAL BIRTH CONTROL PILL- cannot cause weight.
              - they broke out when he joined a fraternity and become obsessed with Duke Basketball.
              - his father played also the HOOSIERS. (they were defeated by the Wake Forest and argued.
              - he said she snorred a lot and hogged the bed, mix the toothbrushes together. He called her a BORING INTELLECTUAL and him a SHAMELESS BANDWAGONER.

        4. Nate Menke
                - she met him in their first year of law school at a party
                - he had the coolest eyes and made him look Asian for his light coloring
                - soft spoken, strong-willed, politically active in a defiant, angry way.
                - he is real & intended in bed too.
                 - they spent the summer in the city, studying the Bar Exam.
                 - he began working as an assist district attorney in Queens.
                 - they broke because she met Carly.
               

              5. Alec Kaplan
                   - she met him at Spy Bar, down in Soho.
                    - kind of guy who retired in College, cool-boy uniform of filthy intentionally broken-in baseball caps, fraternity party T-shirts, and woven leather belts, swapping cool-boy uniform of gripping, cotton spandex T-shirts, tight black pants,  slight sheen and and loads of hair gel.
         - smart, fun and nice enough.
         - great body but sex was average.              - her friend Claire spotted Alex kissing a petite, somewhat trashy blonde at Merchants.



Darcy's♥
         1. Blaine Conner
                 - she kissed him in his locker
                 - he had come from Columbus
, Ohio in their junior year.
                 - wasn't bright but is A Star Receiver of the football team,  starting point guard in the basketball team,  starting pitcher in the spring.
                 - "BUT" he had a girlfriend named CASSANDRA  back in Columbus whom he is 110% committed
                - they've watched "LES MISERABLES" together and after that they'd made out
                - Cassandra found out and then they've split together.
                - he is now living in Ohio with his wife and three kids.

         2. Carlos
                 - she's lost virginity to this man from Spain. An exchange student.





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