Quote #173592
Someone told me that when they go to Vermont, they feel like they’re home. I’m that way at Saks.
Caroline Rhea
About This Quote
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Interpretation
Caroline Rhea’s line is a self-deprecating, consumer-culture riff on the idea of “home” as a place of comfort and belonging. By contrasting someone’s sentimental attachment to Vermont—a shorthand for rustic calm and authenticity—with her own feeling of being “home” at Saks (Saks Fifth Avenue), she turns the language of rootedness into a joke about urban glamour, shopping, and aspirational identity. The humor depends on incongruity: a department store replaces landscape and community as the site of emotional grounding. It also lightly satirizes how brands and luxury spaces can function as personal sanctuaries or status markers in modern life.




