The most important line: The Overnight Socialite

I started reading The Overnight Socialite by Bridie Clark two weeks ago, and I love it. The Overnight Socialite is set in the Manhattan's elite social class, focusing on two opposites Wyatt Hayes and Lucy Ellis.

Wyatt, a Harvard graduate with large wealth, just went through a a break up with his girlfriend Cornelia. Lucy is an assembly line worker whose biggest dream is to be a fashion designer. Lucy works for Nola Sinclair, a well known fashion designer who treats her workers poorly and will never consider Lucy for a designing job.

Lucy ruins one of Nola's fashion shows and is immediately fired.

That same night, Lucy meets Wyatt and he offers her a once in a lifetime deal. Wyatt offers Lucy the opportunity for him to spend a month giving her a makeover to turn her into Manhattan's top socialite and thus help her break into the fashion world.  Lucy declines that night and spends the next few days barely able to pay rent. The most important line in this chapter is  when Lucy realizes, "There was one more option, one that had been creeping it's way to the front of her mind more and more often with each passing day. Wyatt Hayes IV." This line is important because Lucy's only other option was moving back to Idaho, and moving to Idaho would destroy any chance Lucy had of accomplishing her dream. Idaho has no large fashion industry, the only reason Lucy would move is if she was broke so she could live with her mother. Lucy had no friends or family who would be able to help her in New York,  when she left Idaho the only person she kept in touch with was her mother.

This is truly a turing point in the novel for Lucy because her previous mistakes become unimportant  and she is able to focus on her dream. Lucy begins to feel more confident about herself and realizes that she can become a fashion designer if she works hard. Not only does this change Lucy's life for the better, but Hayes realizes that there is more to life than money and Cornelia. Hayes begins to write a book for the first time, he had spent his life doing nothing and is finally accomplishing something.