Summary:
Are you ready, Boots by Maggie Alderson, is a short story, which mainly takes place in London. It is a youthful atmosphere in a financial world; with new fancy clothes, lots of drinks, Champaign and parties. It´s also a superficial environment, where you are being judged by your look and the clothes you are wearing all the time.
The most of the story is in London but the opening, which is in Medias res, is in New York. The two friends, Lulu and Spencer, who are also two of the main characters, are shopping shoes. It is the first time the reader experiences the financial world and the consumer society, because Lulu is trying some Manolos, which are very expensive shoes. Even though Lulu is spending “two months’ rent money on that four day trip to New York” the fact that she is actually buying such expensive shoes shows that she, at one point or another, is well-off.
Lulu is the first-person in the short story and therefore we hear all of her thoughts, which often......

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Title: Are You Ready Boots
Approximate Word Count: 264
Approximate Pages: 2 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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