Feagin Dixon offices

The Feagin Dixon offices, in particular the main trading floor where Belle's desk is situated, are a loud, stressful, and uncomfortable place, particularly for the women employees. At many points, the men carry out near frat-house-like hijinks, such as when many of the men concoct an erectile stimulant for a coworker's birthday (207-209). Because everybody's desks are right next to each other, with little or no partitions between desks, everybody is intimately aware of everyone else's business. Belle is much happier at the end of the novel, when she has left the chaotic realm of Feagin Dixon for the relaxed offices of Arbella Financial.

Belle and Bruce's apartment

Belle and Bruce's large New York City apartment, while expensive and theoretically luxurious, usually looks effectively like a playground dominated by their three young children. When Belle first walks into the apartment, the reader is given this description...