Sex and the City Argumentative Essay Example

continues to baffle their lives in pursuit of happiness and finding Mr.

Right. The flaw, which is in a more neutral sense, the restriction or limitation of the reading, is due to the concept of the show itself.Furthermore, I agree with the author’s observation about family being not much mentioned and included in the show. The show merely focused on conversations of the four characters and their mishaps and victory over life’s continuous blows.

In DiMattia’s What’s the Harm in Believing, the main point is that Carrie is so engrossed with the idea of finding the right one when it is in front of her all this time – Big. Her quest for Mr. Right gradually dies down as the season progresses since the situation and people as well get more complicated as time goes by. This is supported by the continuous encounters with Carrie’s past relationships, Aidan Shaw and Big.The strongest concept is Big’s constant presence and the irony that Carrie’s pursuit for Mr. Right is the absolute hindrance to true love.

Carrie in her countless narration in the later seasons indicated her turnaround from finding Mr. Right to just settling for the “fine-one”. As what Akass and McCabe mentioned in the reading, she is completely oblivious that what she has, Big, is already the fine one she’s looking for.On the other hand, I think that there are many weak and unfounded parts in the article such as Carrie’s superstition with the Locket, Berger’s big bike connoted as a phallic symbol.The locket, shown in the series as always part of Carrie symbolizes love according to the reading, this is based on interpretations of the author and not

really as important as what Carrie and the rest of the characters show in the series.

It could be a subplot though but not as major as the other concepts viewed so far. I find this part insignificant to the reading.Furthermore, the big bike associated with Jack Berger’s masculinity is by far superficial as the author himself mentioned as stated below (31):“..Berger like a knight in black leather, enters the scene at the burger bar ready to sweep Carrie off her feet with this impressive and commanding display of phallic masculinity.

Yet underneath the helmet, he is a mass of anxieties and nerves.”In Sex and the City and Consumer Culture, Arthurs simply implied that the show has created a great impact on the consumer market as the four characters flaunt their expensive and elegant couture  in each episode.I believe that the main concept of this article is that the characters of the Sex and the City particularly Carrie Bradshaw and Samantha Jones are that influential enough to dictate the market and the viewers of “what’s in and hot” and “what’s not”.However, though disadvantages are not expounded on further, I believe that the effect of the show on the viewers is not always good as it seems.

Since there are also “sex” and trivialities in the series, younger, or we may say, less mature audiences may also imitate the less moral aspects of the series such as abortion, sexual promiscuity and too much freedom of choice.

Works Cited

1. Akass and McCabe. Reading sex and the city and feminist media studies, vol 3, no. 1, New York City: IB Tauris. 2003.
2. Arthurs, J. Sex and the City and Consumer Cultur. Reading
   

sex and the city and feminist media studies, vol 3, no. 1, Routledge. 2003.