Okay, I've Figured Out the Plot of Carrie Bradshaw's Novel
But what is the book about, really? Throughout And Just Like That's third season, we're given various lines and tidbits, references and glimpses, while Carrie types directly into Pages (brave) in huge font and narrates the lines out loud. We know it's set in 1864, we know there's a romance involved, and we know it's inspired by her new Gramercy Park duplex (so much so, that she doesn't have time to properly furnish it). But what else do we know? I combed through every reference and line in order to map out the plot of Carrie's novel in its entirety.
Episode one
'The woman wondered what she had gotten herself into.'
Okay, so the book opens mid-way through an 'inciting incident.' We don't yet know what it is that Carrie's protagonist has gotten herself into, exactly, but seeing as Carrie was on the phone with Aidan before feeling motivated to open her laptop for the first time in weeks, we can assume it's a romantic entanglement of some sort.
Episode two
'Sitting in the sunlight, the woman felt the fog of the last two nights lift. She realized her recent tossing and turning and insecurities were remnants of another time. A time when she was less sure of her path. This is a new house, she reminded herself. A new life. This wasn't her past, it was the present. May, 1864.'
Right, so maybe this woman has been stressing over the aforementioned relationship not because she's unhappy, but because she won't allow herself to be happy? We also now know that the book is set in 1864, which would place us squarely at the tail-end of the Civil War, post-Manhattan draft riots and with Abraham Lincoln as president. Could it be possible that our protagonist is exiting a period of instability—not unlike Carrie herself—and is therefore unable to fully relax into her new life?
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