What is the moral for the book "The Nanny Diaries"?

Answer 1

That rich parents are so often poor with regard to how the treat their offspring and other people; that money san't buy happiness.

"This book is centered on Park Avenue, which they deem the Midwest of Manhattan on the basis of population density, because it has that many empty rooms. Their characters are the kinds of women who instruct new employees: ''Now the dry cleaner's number is on there and the florist and the caterer.'' Yes, but how about a pediatrician? ''Oh. I'll get you that next week.''

Their composite heroine, whose actual name is supposed to be Nanny, is a vastly entertaining narrator and impromptu social critic, observing distinctions ''amid the sea of faces that have had work done and the faces that are doing the work.'' The kind of pattern that she notices is that at a lavish Halloween costume party, ''the child is a small Snow White, nanny is a large Dwarf, the child is a small farmer, nanny is a very large cow, the child is a small Pied Piper, nanny is a large rat.'' She winds up squeezed into a Teletubby outfit, thinking, ''If I wanted to get dressed up in bizarre costumes I could be making way more money than this.''

In their acknowledgments, the authors thank an associate ''for letting us know when there was no there there.'' And it's easy to see how ''The Nanny Diaries'' might have encountered that problem. What they have here are the makings of a nonfiction tell-all book, but the material has been winningly transformed into fiction, thanks to an antagonist whom readers will love to hate: Mrs. X, the quintessential spoiled, imperious, spa-trotting matron.

What is she busy with all day, ''helping the mayor map out a new public transportation plan from a secret room at Bendel's?'' Whatever it is, it leaves only the most infrequent moments for spending time with her son, and those moments are no fun for either of them. ''Go get into bed and I'll read you one verse from your Shakespeare reader,'' she tells him, ''and then it's lights out.''

The son is named Grayer. (Darwin, Benson, Stanton and Tinford are other children's first names here. Benson and Stanton are girls.) And after a rough get-acquainted period, he and Nanny bond out of self-defense. They're in it together when Mrs. X insists that Grayer be kept wrinkle-free before his portrait sitting, and when she makes him wear a Collegiate sweatshirt before he has been accepted at that prestigious school. ''It was a very competitive year!'' Mrs. X explains, upon learning that her 4-year-old hasn't made the grade. ''Grayer doesn't play the violin!''

Because the authors have made fine sport out of shooting fish in a barrel, the X family also includes a gruff, high-powered husband who supports the household in extravagant style but is almost never around. Cheating on Mrs. X makes it hard for him to make family vacations to Aspen, Nantucket, Lyford Cay and other stops on their social circuit and keeps him distracted even if he shows up. Nanny, who is told that it's quite unreasonable for her to want to attend her graduation from N.Y.U. when the family needs her at its rented beach house, is witness to it all.
The heart of the matter remains perfectly pitched social satire, from the children's birthday parties (''We really had to put our heads together to top last year's overnight at Gracie Mansion'') to the kind of house where African, Venetian, Art Deco, Empire and Winnie-the-Pooh styles heedlessly collide.

And in all the domiciles described here -- places where it is deemed very important to have lavender water in the steam iron -- the point is that nobody's really home. Nobody but the servants and the children. This book is saved from self-righteousness not only by the authors' cleverness but also by their compassion. For oblivious parents, lonely offspring and overworked, underpaid employees alike, they're out to fix something that's broken. "

Answer 2

Spoiler Warning

It's the fact that money can't buy you happiness. The nanny, who is only named as simply "Nanny" in the book, witnesses uncomfortable situations when she finds herself in the middle of Mr. X's adultery and Mrs. X's desperateness to win him back. The X couple, who are parents of Nanny's charge, Grayer Addison X, act selfish and uncaring towards their child. By the end of the book, Nanny realizes that nothing she does will ever make the Xes love their child because they're too wrapped up in their wealthy lifestyles and the adultery situation.

I love that book ... probably one of my most favorite books. Hope I helped!

Answer 3

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Answer 4

I don't remember but I didn't like the book at all!
One of the worst books I have ever read!