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After consulting with friends, who agree that Bridget isn’t interested in Mark, Bridget decides to organize a dinner party at her flat and invite Mark, thus making an excuse to see him again without it being a date.
- Helen Fielding
At a party at Mark Darcy's, Bridget is surprised when Mark asks her out to dinner. Although she pretends in her diary not to be interested in him, she is upset when he stands her up for the date. She later learns he was buzzing her in her flat but she couldn't hear because she was blow-drying her hair.
- Helen Fielding
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Bridget Jones’s Diary is a courtship love story, and in the beginning hook, Bridget is in search of a romantic relationship. She meets Mark Darcy at a New Year’s Day turkey curry buffet, but doesn’t think much of him. She goes on a date with her boss Daniel Cleaver and they have sex. While it’s a one night stand for him, Bridget thinks it’s a much ...
What function does this scene serve in the story?This is the lovers meet obligatory moment. It establishes several conventions, including the setting location, period, duration, to give us the scop...What kind of scene is this? It’s a party scene.What does this scene type accomplish within the context of the novel as a whole?Establishes ordinary world. It allows Fielding to provide a social context for Bridget, Mark and dating in general. T...How many people are in the scene?Eleven are mentioned, but likely 25(ish) for a home party.When we analyze a scene we need to answer four story event questions, and identify the five commandments of storytelling. These are covered in detail in Story Grid 101which is available as a free download from the Story Grid website. 1. What are the characters literally doing—that is, what are their micro on-the-ground actions? This question is abo...
Inciting Incident: Bridget arrives at the Alconbury’s home for the New Year’s Day turkey curry buffet. Progressive Complications (and how they escalate the stakes): 1. Geoffrey asks about her love life (makes her feel even more uncomfortable) 2. Pam Jones has been talking about Mark Darcy for weeks (Bridget is sick of him before she even meets him)...
Leslie: This is a picture perfect scene when it comes to the fundamentals of the Story Event and Five Commandments. From the inciting incident, Bridget wants to avoid her mother’s meddling, and her mother and Una push her into an awkward conversation. She doesn’t see that it is the internal work she needs to do (hinted at by the items on her resolu...
Leslie: I feel a little like a broken record, but this is vital, so I’m going to keep saying it periodically. If you don’t have a masterwork for your current work in progress, find one right away. And if you haven’t read your masterwork multiple times and analyzed it from different angles, start doing that. Start with small steps. Analyze a scene a...
1 Bridget decides to have a dinner party because she wants an excuse to see Mark Darcy again; so she invites him to the party. She is going to cook soup and then a lovely dessert with oranges.
Mark popping in unexpectedly as Bridget is cooking her (disastrous) Birthday dinner for her friends - the looks and the banter they exchange, while cooking and at the dinner itself. The fight! Mark showing up outside Bridget’s apartment building and telling her he forgot something - to kiss her goodbye.
She tells him to leave and that he is drunk. Then he asks to use her toilet. The next day, Bridget reports in her diary that Daniel has spent the night and all day with her, drinking, smoking, and eating takeout. Bridget is back on thirty cigarettes a day, potentially engaged, and maybe pregnant.
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Mark Darcy is still recovering from an earth-shattering heartbreak. Frustrated by his mother’s attempts to set him up with (in his words) a “verbally incontinent spinster” named Bridget Jones, he immediately decides to sort his life out.
