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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Trey is old money wealthy.  His family is wealthy, probably from multiple generations of wealth.  He went to top schools and got a nice paying job as a doctor.

Big is new money wealthy.  He didn't come from wealth (or only modestly wealthy), but went to school and got a very high paying job in NYC.

It's pretty apparent that they were differentiating between old and new money with these two characters.[/quote]

Trey and Char are both old money as reflected in their priorities and mannerisms.

Carrie is a LMC trashy gold digger who wouldn't know class if it hit her in the face. Her obsession with name brand items; lack of financial sense; lewd behavior; socialing in dirty clubs and lust for rich men signify her poor tacky taste. She thinks spending money you do not have on name brand goods you do not need is the epitome of elegance and Mr Big, a gauche NYC Wall Street striver is the be all of class and dignity.

I think Big married Natasha because he, like Carrie, is a social climber who needed to marry into class in order to fit in and attain social legitimacy.He's a smart guy, he knows the kind of women rich men marry. It is his social climbing ways that made him run away from a commitment to carry for almost a decdsfe. As much as he enjoyed their trsyts and her company, for a long time her status as the sex columisny splashed across the side of the bus was a serious deal breaker for him.

He and Carrie are alike; they are both outsiders who came to NYC in search for glamour and riches. They have these fantasies of "old New York" based on movies and music and each try to act like how they think elegant New Yorkers should act like. Annoying Strivers. He only settled for Carrie when he realized his time was running out and that he had aged out of the competitive marriage market he had tentatively dipped his toes in earlier. They are sort of made for each other.[/quote]
I don't think of Carrie as LMC or brand-obsessed. Fashion obsessed, yes. She was well read, a writer, and completed the NYT crossword puzzles... Also don't think Big was a NYC outsider. The show kept him a mystery, but we know he went to an Episcopalian church with his mother in a fancy neighborhood, so I think we know he came from money. Also, there was one episode where he runs into old friends (I think when he fails to introduce Carrie), and they talk about backpacking or skiing across Europe when younger. I picture him as a NYC prep school or boarding school type and Princeton grad. [/quote]

She did none of those things until the movie.  In the series, she didn't read books, poetry, or know much about politics.  She was a dingbat with a penchant for writing flippant articles about her life and being single.  Even in one of the episodes with the Russian, he tries to read poetry to her, and she goes on and on about how Vogue is her poetry.  Good grief, it's a magazine full of ads for Vuitton and Blahnik.

Totally loathesome and undereducated.[/quote]

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