I read on Wikipedia that Carrie from "Sex and the City" is shown reading "The Pursuit of Love" in the second movie. That's interesting because S&C is all about the pursuit of love, of course, but it's also about the friendship among women, with frank discussions about life and fashionable living, which is what Nancy Mitford's books are also about, especially the relationships between Fanny and the Radlett girls, with Davey and Merlin as kind of the flamboyant male sidekicks.
And the Bolter, of course, representing sexual freedom that everyone feels compelled to denounce but also to indulge.
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Ooh yes, and some definite parallels between Fabrice and Big, don't you think?
Oh, good call, Erin! I hadn't even thought of the Big/Fabrice connection — the successful, pompous man-of-the-world father-figure finally "rescuing" the young lady who has been so disappointed by love. Blech.
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