Read "New Year's Resolutions" through "February: Valentine's Day Massacre."
Content Summary for Teachers
New Year's Resolutions
Bridget Jones’s Diary begins with Bridget Jones, the novel's protagonist, declaring her numerous intentions and resolutions for the new year. She plans to drink less, quit smoking, give up spending money needlessly and beyond her means, and put a stop to falling for "alcoholics, workaholics, commitment phobics, people with girlfriends or wives, misogynists, megalomaniacs, chauvinists, emotional fuckwits or freeloaders, and perverts" (2). She also vows to stop gossiping about people behind their backs, and no longer obsess over Daniel Cleaver (her notoriously...
