Carrie Bradshaw as evidence that she was beyond personal growth or redemption. "The New Yorker", looking back on the show a decade after it went off the air, felt that while the character began as a "happy, curious explorer, out companionably smoking with modellizers," from the second season on she "spun out, becoming anxious, obsessive, and, despite her charm, wildly self-centered." Carrie Bradshaw Caroline Marie “Carrie” Bradshaw (born October 10, 1968) is the protagonist of the HBO franchise "Sex and the City", portrayed by Sarah Jessica Parker. She is a semi-autobiographical character created by Candace Bushnell, whose book "Sex and the City"
The Carrie Diaries high-school starting her junior year, continuing through the summer, and ending at senior year graduation. Carrie, her friends, and family are shown going through many different trials during this time. Carrie handles these well, including having a few boyfriends along the way. She and her dad have disagreements but do not come to blows until the end of the book. Carrie's final decision to not attend Brown University contributes to her living with her eventual lifelong friend Samantha Jones. This sets up Carrie as the precedent of a main character in "Sex and the City". "The Carrie Diaries" received generally