Miranda Priestly Character Analysis

Andrea, or what Miranda Priestly calls “Emily”, a girl in New York City trying to find her dream job. She is in a simple life living with her boyfriend and going nowhere fast. She had a dream of always getting into the editorial field but didn’t know how to achieve her life’s goal. Until one day she saw that a company was hiring an assistant to an editor of a large high end company named, “Runway”.
In Andrea’s new job, she does a lot, let’s just say. She does so many things as an assistant for Miranda Priestly. So while she does all that, she slowly starts to learn all these little lessons, about her life and her job. I picked out couple lessons that she learned from her job in high fashion. The very first lesson I realized, was her image. As we all know when you work in high fashion, you should be fashionable, well her image…not so good. She starts to come to work with all these raggedy clothes from the 90’s, EW! But as a week goes by, Andrea starts to talk to another employee she works with named Nigel. Nigel also works with Miranda as a close friend that helps her design her clothes. Well Nigel, he takes Andrea in his own
hands and turns Andreas style into an eye catching style, or a jaw dropper. Through her job she realizes, that you always have to look nice and clean to impress people and also herself.
Andrea is a weird girl, in a good way.
She sometimes realizes things, but sometimes not so much. Another lesson I picked out from the film was her sacrifices she made. Some were good, some were bad. The best sacrifice she made for herself was her image for sure! The worst sacrifice she made for herself was her friends. Personally I think she could of stood up for herself, because Miranda was always taking her life away from her, not spending time with her boyfriend or her best friends, and the big one was her dad. Miranda is a selfish person; she used Andrea even though she was off of work, trying to make her get a flight to go from Florida to New York City, even when there was huge storm! On the other hand though that is her job and if you are getting paid to do the things you have to do, well you’re going to have to make some
sacrifices.
Emily, well I mean Andrea, took a lot of sacrifices for her job, but the most important one she didn’t have to make, was her personality. For my third lesson I picked from the film was her personality. You should never change your personality, only if it is a good change. I guess working in high fashion can change your views on things, and change you a little, but you should realize and analyze the things that might affect you before you even start your job. A job shouldn’t change you, you should change you.
When Andrea started to work for Miranda she was dull and weird. Then when she started to change, she started to get better at her working skills. She was organized and impressive at the things she learned. For my final lesson I picked was the way she worked. I think Andrea realized at the end of the film that working for Runway (Miranda) was actually a good thing. She became a better person, she learned how to take care of herself, she realized that you always have to make good sacrifices for yourself and others and most importantly stay true to who you are. Andrea finally quit her job and finally became who she really wanted to be, and that was to work as an editor, and from her working at Runway, she got a good reference from Miranda to work as an editor. This film can teach you a lot, I learned some great lessons from this film, the major one was, I better be ready to work in high fashion. ;} Miranda is truly a devil who wears Prada.