All About Me/Saving Me/Don't Let Go

Title: The Devil Wears Prada
Pages: 348-432 (total: 1025)

Andy delivers a speech for Miranda. Andy gets fired from Runway.

Our best interest is our self. We care all and only about ourself. It does not matter who we hurt as long as we get what we want. This is the human self interest at work. Andy missed her nephew's birth, her dates with her boyfriends and her planned outings with her friends, and her family visits. Although Andy did express remorse for her friends and family, she did not actually do anything to prove it. It was not until Miranda pulled Andy's final straw-complimenting Andy that she reminds Miranda of her younger self and that she is substandard at best(for not visiting her friend who is in the hospital)- that Andy cursed at her and left Paris to return back home. Through all the pain and work, as Miranda's assistant Andy was finally able to let go her oncoming one year servitude and one chance closer to working at The New Yorker to be herself. Ever since she became Miranda's assistant Andy slowly morphed into Miranda where she was dressing and acting differently. The only reason why Andy gave everything up was because she did not want to be Miranda. She wanted to be herself. She saw the disillusioned lifestyle Miranda led masked with glamour but filled with loneliness and bitterness. Leaving Miranda is one of the best things Andy ever did. Andy had always had the chance of quitting Runway, for the reason of losing touch with her friends and family but she never did, only until Andy felt direct loss of her. She was losing her identity; leaving Miranda and Paris meant saving herself. This decision was impulsive and selfish but necessary.