Andrea (Andy) Sachs is a young, aspiring female journalist who takes a job as Miranda Priestly's junior assistant at the fictional fashion magazine Runway. She has a degree in English from Brown University and dreams of working for The New Yorker, a goal she initially believes can be achieved through a publishing job. Andrea goes to New York to be a journalist, but has few opportunities before landing an interview at Runway magazine. She manages to impress Miranda Priestly enough to get a job offer, but struggles to keep up with her impossible demands and get everything done. Soon, she becomes occupied with work and spends less and less time with her boyfriend and friends. In the end, she quits the job and applies for a job at a newspaper; Miranda Priestly tells the editor of the magazine that Andrea was her biggest disappointment and if they didn't hire her, they were being stupid. Andrea goes by Andy, except Miranda Priestly who is the only person to consistently call her Andrea with a French accent.