The way of Becky to control her hobby to shopping

3. THE ANALYSIS DREAM OF BECKY BRANDON FOUND IN MINI SHOPAHOLIC

3.1 The way of Becky to control her hobby to shopping

In this novel Becky Brandon is the main character. Rebecca Bloomwood lives in a flat in fashionable Fulham, London, that is owned by her best friend Suzes wealthy, aristocratic parents. Becky works as a financial journalist for the magazine Successful Savings, that is a job that Becky dislikes. She says that no one who works there is very excited about and that they all say they have just fell into, while in fact being unable to get better jobs. Becky grew up in Oxshott, Surrey with her Mum and Dad. After attending Bristol University, she moved to London. She first lived with her best friend Susan Suze Cleath-Stuart before she finally moved out with Luke Brandon. Before moving to New York, she worked on a magazine called Successful Savings. Becky met her future husband, Luke Brandon, CEO of Brandon Communications a Public Relations firm during a press conference while she was working as a financial journalist. She helped him pick out luggage for his girlfriend, Sacha. Becky did not know that Luke had a girlfriend and thought that Luke liked her. She had an angry, tearful confrontation with him where she said that she wasnt a joke. She attracted his attention after she published an article about one of his clients. They appear on television together and they began dating Universitas Sumatera Utara at the end of the first book. Luke and Becky marry in America in the PLAZA Hotel on June 22, 2002 and also in England at Beckys parents house on June 23, 2002. Becky and Luke have a daughter named Minnie Brandon who was born on December 3, 2003. Becky is a shopping addict who lives with her best friend Suze. She works as a journalist for a gardening magazine but dreams to join the fashion magazine Alette. On the way to an interview with Alette, she buys a green scarf. Her credit card is declined, so Rebecca goes to a hot dog stand and offers to buy all the hot dogs with a check, if the seller gives her back change in cash, saying the scarf is to be a gift for her sick aunt. The hot dog vendor refuses but a man offers her 20. The job bores her. Becky always shopping till over limit and has a mental illness that should buy something in everyday. Luke so often was not happy with Becky’s behavior, it is because spend the money to unnecessary items. Becky Brandon thinks that having a daughter is a dream come true. A shopping friend for life, she said. But two-year-old Minnie has a quite different approach to shopping. The toddler creates havoc everywhere she goes, from Harrods to her own christening. Her favorite word is “Mine” and she’s even trying to get into eBay “Miiiiiiiine Miiiiiiiiine bag She cries furiosly and backs away from me. She’s holding on to the Balenciaga bag like it’s the last life preserver in the ocean and she’s not about to relinquish it to anybody. “Minnie . . .” I sigh. To be fair, she does have a point. The Balenciaga bag is way nicer than her own toy bag. Put it this way: If I was being christened, I’d want a Balenciaga bag too. Mini Shopaholic, p. 68 Universitas Sumatera Utara Becky admits to actually knowing very little about personal finance as she is thousands of pounds in debt as is evidenced by a run through of her Visa card bill. She becomes deeper in debt by uncontrollably spending on designer homeware, clothes and beauty products. Even as she is thousands of pounds in debt, Becky still receives letters offering her credit and department store cards. She often rationalises her overspending, for instance by referring to items as an investment or necessary. Unfortunately for Becky, she considers things such as birthday presents for her friends as necessary. With people having to cut back, Becky decides to throw a surprise party for Luke to cheer everyone up. She control her hobby, eventhough it’s too difficult for her to do it.

3.2 The surprise party for Luke