Bridget Jones and the temptations of junk food

Bridget Jones’s Diary is considered to be one of the best-known examples of the chick-lit genre. It is written in the form of a personal diary and narrates the life of the protagonist – Bridget Jones – throughout a whole year. Bridget is a single woman in her early thirties who lives in London and, as the book begins, works in the advertising sector of a book publishing company, although she later resigns and finds a new job with a television channel. She is the quintessential goofball who never fails to make a fool of herself. She is obsessed with her love life, she is constantly looking for a stable relationship, not least because she feels that this is what is expected by her family, friends and society in general. She leads a most unhealthy lifestyle as she overindulges in smoking and drinking. Furthermore, anyone who is familiar with the character of Bridget Jones knows that one of her most characteristic peculiarities is her particular relationship with food. This peculiarity will be thoroughly analysed in this paper.