Analyse af 'Are You Ready, Boots?'

Are You Ready Boots by Maggie Alderson, is a short story about an English girl called Lulu and her black leather boots. The story begins in New York where Lulu, her good friend Spencer and another friend are on a four day trip. On a shoe sale she finds these fabulous boots that makes her feel fantastic, almost like a Bond girl, and she buys them. But when she’s back in England she can’t bear to wear them because they were so expensive. Until one night six month later when she’s going out with Spencer and he encourages her to wear them. She does and that night she meets a very handsome man called Charlie. After a while she walks straight to him in her boots, talks with him and starts dating him. They become likening each other and he seems to be the perfect man. But only Spencer disapproves their relationship. After a while Charlie proposes and she accepts. The same night she decides to wear the same dress, including the boots, as the day they met. But then Charlie says that he hates the boots and he asks her to take them off. Then she looks at her great boots, makes a decision and then leaves.