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5and explains that she needs cash to buy the scarf for her sick aunt in thehospital.Finally, a man in line offers her the money so she can buy the scarf. Whenshe starts her interview with Luke Brandon, the editor of the magazineSuccessful Savings, she finds that he is the man who had lent her the money inline. While he is still talking on the phone, she throws off her scarf and tries toact like it is not hers. The interview does not go well for Rebecca. She lies onceagain saying that she speaks Finnish fluently. She tries to distract him but it allgoes badly. Luke‟s assistant Haley comes into the room and tells Rebecca thatshe has dropped her scarf. Rebecca knows her game is over and leaves theoffice.Nevertheless, Luke Brandon hires her. She writes her column, callingherself “The Girl in the Green Scarf”. Her boss Luke invites Rebecca to aconference in Miami. At the ball after the conference the two share a romanticmoment on the roof.So Rebecca enjoys her job, but most of all she enjoys shopping. When itcomes to shopping, she, so to say, suffers from a shopping addiction buyingthings one after another. On returning home from Miami, Rebecca facesconfrontations with a bill collector from her bank and she is at a loss to knowhow to repay her debts. Her friend Suze makes Rebecca join a Shopaholicgroup, where the class leader forces her to sell all the clothes she had bought,including her bridesmaid dress for Suze‟s wedding. Later Rebecca is publiclyaccused of not paying her debts on a TV live show and as a consequence sheloses her job.Frustrated Rebecca decides to sell all of her clothes in a sale, but hesitatesover the green scarf. The sale is a success, making it possible for her to repayher debts. Rebecca and Luke come together to Suze‟s wedding, with Lukereturning her the green scarf. Rebecca ends up working for Luke‟s newmagazine, writing regular articles under the heading as “Confessions of aShopaholic”.III. Go through the suggested vocabulary in order to understand themovie better.abandon v to leave smb or go away from a placeaccuse v to say that smb is guilty of doing smth badaddiction n a need to have smth regularlyafford v to have enough money to pay or buy smthbridesmaid n a girl usually unmarried who is with her at the weddingbutterfly investment complex strategy involving „put‟ and „call‟ optionschain of events a connected series of events