Summary: This episode is about a love story between Miranda’s friend Jeremy and her interior decorator Madeline and how the wedding negatively affects the women of the show. Throughout this episode all the women are also upset about the men in their lives. Miranda is upset about Jeremy, Samantha is upset about having no men left to sleep with, Carrie is upset about her slowly progressing relationship with big, and Charlotte is upset about her mini relationship with a groomsman. Throughout the course of the wedding nothing really goes well for the girls…Thematic Parallelism:
· House guests
o Miranda having houseguest Jeremy stay over
o Carrie being Big’s houseguest
o Samantha having a reoccurring house guest
· Time comparisons and relationships
o Carrie compares celebrating the baby steps of her long-term relationship with Madeline and Jeremy’s short-term relationship with big steps
o Miranda: “It’s amazing, it took her six months to find me an end table, but she can plan a wedding at the Plaza in four weeks”
o Charlotte goes through all the steps of a relationship with a man throughout the course of the wedding “Technically it wasn’t a third date but they had already had dinner, been dancing [and met the parents]”
o Samantha analyzes the amount of short term sexual escapades she has had with various men
· Men making women upset
o Big upsetting Carrie, Jeremy upsetting Miranda, The groomsmen upsetting charlotte, and the “re-run” upsetting SamanthaPlots:
· A Plot: Madeline and Jeremy’s Developing Relationship
o They meet, fall in love, Jeremy
proposes, Madeline plans the wedding and they get married
proposes, Madeline plans the wedding and they get married
· B Plot: Carrie and Big’s relationship progressing/regressing
o Big gives Carrie one of his toothbrush heads, and comes to the wedding as Carrie’s date. He then refuses to sign the card and then leaves the wedding in the middle of Carrie reciting her poem
· C Plot: Miranda is bitter about various series of events that occur
o Miranda is bitter towards the events that occur throughout the episode having to do with Jeremy and Madeline
· D Plot: Charlotte has a mini relationship
o Charlotte meets a man and starts/ends an accelerated relationship at the wedding
Non-Stereotypical Gender Roles
o None of the women care about catching the bouquet at the end of the wedding
o Carrie does not know what to say about love in her poem
o Samantha sleeps with a man that she had already slept with 15 years prior and did not remember him “I’m officially out of men to fuck, I have to get married or move”
Stereotypical Gender Roles
o Miranda has her who whole apartment redone just to impress a man
o Miranda is upset and bitter once she is abandoned by Jeremy
o Carrie is excited about Big giving her a pink toothbrush head “it was the single most encouraging moment so far in our relationship”
o Miranda goes to so much trouble for a man who overlooks her
o Big is uncomfortable about being on the card with Carrie
o Charlotte: “Well I think [Madeline and Jeremy] are encouraging… it means that even if you are not dating anybody, you could be engaged in a couple of weeks!”
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