The short story, “The Fabulous Button-sisters” is about two girls, Karen and Michelle and their friendship. Throughout the story we get to hear about the girls preparing for a party, and they discuss what to wear. Michelle suggests them both to dress up as chocolate buttons.
The title “The Fabulous Button-sisters” is a reference to what Michelle wants them to dress up as. But it could also be a reference to the fact that everything Michelle has to do, has to be fabulous and to make a good impression at the party.
“She was always trying to get us to be the Fabulous Something Sisters”(Page 9, line 40)
The story takes place somewhere in the United Kingdom, because of the fact, that all the letters Karen later on received from Michelle was postmarked from Birmingham.
Karen, the main character, is a young and quite ordinary girl. Throughout the story Karen seems like a person who is willing to do everything for Michelle. Karen is definitely looking up to Michelle, but is also fascinated by Michelle’s life. Places as “It wasn’t just her lip gloss, or the way no bossy parent to her what to do, or even that she was living with her aunt who read American magazines, offered Michelle cigarettes, had boyfriends and, Michelle said, thirty two pairs of different coloured high heeled shoes”(Page 8, line 13) Here we see that it is not only about her appearance but in general how her way of living life is. Throughout the story Karen is clumsy and insecure. “She used to despair when I found myself knocked into the gutter for the umpteenth time”(page 8, line 28). Karen is also very easily influenced by Michelle. When Michelle decides, what kind of diet they are trying, Karen just goes along with it and does not ask further questions. “Michelle said it was important we kept up to date with diets”(Page 10, line 73). Bu Throughout the story, our main character Karen goes through