https://litwiki.org/api.php?action=feedcontributions&feedformat=atom&user=RNickels 2026-05-21T21:13:09Z User contributions MediaWiki 1.43.0 https://litwiki.org/index.php?title=Perestroika_5.2&diff=9076 2006-04-25T19:40:54Z

<p>RNickels: </p> <hr /> <div>==Summary==<br /> A short scene that involves Prior and Harper in Heaven, which looks like San Fransisco after the great earthquake. Harper has apparently overdosed on Valium.<br /> <br /> ==Study Questions==<br /> 1. What does Harper mean when she says &quot;I feel like shit but I've never felt more alive?&quot;<br /> <br /> 2. What is the purpose of the cat being in heaven?</div>

RNickels https://litwiki.org/index.php?title=Perestroika_5.1&diff=9075 2006-04-25T19:30:39Z

<p>RNickels: summary and questiones 1 - 3</p> <hr /> <div>==Summary==<br /> The Angel appears to Prior and to Hannah in Prior's hospital room. Prior and the Angel wrestle and Prior asks for the Angel's blessing and for the book to be returned to Heaven. This is excatly what happend to Jacob, in the book of Genisis. The Angel then gives Hannah an orgasm.<br /> <br /> ==Study Questiones==<br /> 1. What is the significance of Prior and the Angel wrestling?<br /> <br /> 2. What is the signifacance of the Angel giving Hannah an orgasm?<br /> <br /> 3. Why, biblically, does the Angel say it has torn a thigh muscle?</div>

RNickels https://litwiki.org/index.php?title=Louis_Ironson&diff=7050 2006-04-25T19:14:55Z

<p>RNickels: </p> <hr /> <div>Though Kushner is critical of Louis, he in no way diminishes the gravity of what this character is forced to deal with. Louis has, after all, good reason for wanting to flee. His lover, Prior Walter, is diagnosed with AIDS and is enduring many critical and excruciating symptoms of the disease. When he confronts his lover on the floor of their bedroom, burning with fever and excreting blood, the full horror of this disease is conveyed in all its mercilessness and squalor. Louis's moral dilemma is compelling precisely because what he has to deal with is so overwhelming. Still, the playwright makes clear that all the talk of justice and politics will not free us from those terrifying, yet fundamental responsibilities that accompany human sickness and death (McNutty 3).<br /> <br /> Louis is determined to &quot;maybe himself out of his unfortunate present reality.One of the more incendiary moments occurs at a coffee shop with Prior's ex-lover and closest friend, Belize. Louis launches instead into a de Tocqueville-esque diatribe: &quot;There are no gods here, no ghosts and spirits in America, there are no angels in Americal, no spiritual past, no racial past, there's only the political, and the decoys and the ploys to maneuver around the inescapable battle of politics&quot;. Belize makes clear that he can see right through Louis's highbrow subterfuge: &quot;Are you deliberately transforming yourself into an arrogant, sexual-political Stalinist-slash-racist flag-wavingh thug for my benefit&quot; (McNutty 2,3).<br /> <br /> Louis self-destructively yearns to be penetrated: &quot;I want you to fuck me, hurt me, make me bleed&quot; (Kruger 7). Later Joe encounters Louis, who is in desperate flight of fear from his longtime lover, Prior, who is suffering from the initial stages of full-blown AIDS. Racked with guilt at his faithlessness, the liberal Louis reflects on the era, which he sees as a metaphor for his cowardly behavior. He describes himself, and Joe, as &quot;Children of the new morning, criminal minds. Selfish and greedy and loveless and blind. Reagan's children.&quot; Louis has a brutal, punishing sexual encounter with a stranger in Central Park. The stanger provocatively asks, &quot;You been a bad boy? Louis can only sardonically reply, &quot;Very bad. Very bad&quot; (Layman 9).<br /> <br /> ==Commentary==<br /> <br /> Louis is a frightened boy who runs from his problems and searches for answers and spends a great deal of time babbling about what he thinks he has found. Louis is quite wishy-washy and always full of guilt for changing. He is quite self-destructive and a glutton for punishment which is exemplified by his meeting in the park with Joe. <br /> <br /> Louis is almost the antithesis of Roy Cohn. Louis always seems confused about what he wants, Roy is directly to his point. Louis searches for a way to forget about his pain, Roy accepts pain and says that &quot;life is pain&quot;. Louis is afraid, Roy says the Devil should be afraid of him. However, we must question Louis' moral character, just as we do Roy's, because Louis abandon's his loved ones in the greatest times of need - the difference between Roy and Louis' lack of morals is that Louis always let them get the better of him.</div>

RNickels https://litwiki.org/index.php?title=Roy_Cohn&diff=7102 2006-04-25T18:46:02Z

<p>RNickels: some commentary, study questiones 1 - 3</p> <hr /> <div>http://www.logoonline.com/sitewide/promoimages/a/angels_in_america/characters/roy/150x200.jpg <br /> <br /> The character of Roy Cohn serves as vehicle for Kushner's most telling act of counterhistory. As a &quot;Saint of the Right&quot;, Cohn represents a point of continuity between the anticommunism of the 1950's and the Republic ascendancy of the Reagan 1980s (Garner 5). <br /> <br /> Kushner employs a quite different brand of humor with the character of Cohn, whose gleefully bitter corruption is both comic and frightening. Cohn is a rapacious predator who is first discovered in his command module juggling phone calls and wishing he had eight arms like an octopus. Roy's self-loathing is his most unsettling quality, vividly shown in his scathing denial of his homosexuality: &quot;Like all labels they tell you one thing and one thing only: where does an individual so identified fit in the food chain,in the pecking order?&quot; Cohn represents a kind of trickle-down morality in ''Angels in America''; he is a symbol of Kushner's notion that if there is corruption, hypocrisy, and bad faith at the top, it will ultimately seep down to each individual in the society (Layman 10).<br /> <br /> Like an incipient cancer, Cohn's corruption, however destructive, is nonetheless insidious. It infiltrates and draws on the body's internal systems to spread, eventually overtaking and destroying the host--Cohn or the law.Although he corrupts the method by which judges decide cases (by sleeping with them and the like), he does not try to have cases decided any other way (Quinn 3).<br /> <br /> Cohn's deviation from the jurisprudential norm is indeed like that of a cancer, ravenous in its hunger, growing and operating at a rate independent of the rest of the body of which it is a part, destined to overtake and kill the very body that sustains it. But the corrupt, diseased, tumorous nature of Cohn's lawyering also has important textual and thematic links with the physical infection and ensuing &quot;corruption&quot; of Cohn's flesh and blood with AIDS (Quinn).<br /> <br /> ==Commentary==<br /> One of the main characters in ''Angels in America'', Roy Cohn, exhibits Hubris[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/]&quot; in its greatest form. By definition, hubris referred in Ancient Greece to a reckless disregard for the rights of another person resulting in some kind of social degradation for the victim. <br /> Hubris is a common theme in Greek tragedies and mythology, whose stories often featured characters displaying hubris and subsequently being punished for it. In Greek law, it most often refers to violent outrage wreaked by the powerful upon the weak. Cohn uses his position and &quot;clout&quot; to get ahead. <br /> <br /> When confronted by his doctor, Henry, he explains his role as he saw it:<br /> <br /> ''&quot;...Now to someone who does not understand this, homosexual is what I am because I have sex with men . . . Homosexuals are not men that sleep with other men . . . Homosexuals...have zero clout...I have clout&quot; (Kushner 51).'' <br /> <br /> From this perspective, we see that Cohn not only dominates those around him, but he dominates the society in which he lives. He has the power to make and break the reputations of those around him. <br /> <br /> Roy is the most frowned upon character in the screenplay and the character we all love to hate. Roy shows no compassion to anyone throughout the screenplay, even when he is on his death-bed. His cold-heartedness and manipulative ways help make him an easy target for hatred. However Roy was doing what he had to do in order to succeed, in order to accomplish his goals, in order to get what he wanted. It is for this reason that Roy Cohn is the most symbolic character in this play, for what he epitomizes - America, the capitalist land of the social cheeseburger.<br /> <br /> One of the great comparisons of Cohn is to Oedipus in Oedipus the King [http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~loxias/myth.htm&quot;]written by Sophocles [http://galenet.galegroup.com.ezproxy.maconstate.edu/servlet/LitRC?vrsn=3&amp;OP=contains&amp;locID=maco12153&amp;srchtp=athr&amp;ca=1&amp;c=1&amp;ste=6&amp;tab=1&amp;tbst=arp&amp;ai=U13003395&amp;n=10&amp;docNum=H1200007651&amp;ST=Sophocles&amp;bConts=278191]. Oedipus for example, feigns compassion and understanding with his people suffering from the plague in order to maintain his political position. When he is addressing the crowd, he makes his own suffering seem far greater than any other:<br /> <br /> ''&quot;Well I know you are sick to death, all of you, but sick as you are, not one is sick as I. Your pain strikes each of you alone, each in the confines of himself, no other. But my spirit grieves for the city, for myself and all of you.&quot; (Line 75-76)''<br /> <br /> He believes that his triumphs exceed any of those made by his counter parts. This behavior is key to hubris; his arrogance allows him to believe that he is greater than any God. <br /> <br /> Cohn has similar moments of superiority and feigned compassion. When discussing his clout, Cohn brags that he can reach the first lady in five minutes if necessary, showing his affluence and span of his reputation. Sometime after finding out that he has AIDS, Cohn goes to a bar to pick up a man with the intent of sex. This reckless behavior shows his disregard for others, putting his sexual needs above anyone else shows his selfish spirit. He had no regard for others, as long as he is able to use them. <br /> <br /> As represented in all great Greek tragedies, hubris is the downfall of the character. As we read more about the progression of Cohn, we see how far his affluence takes him, allowing him to have access to ATZ during a clinical trial before anyone else. In the end, Cohn dies, cloutless and the same as everyone else.<br /> <br /> ==Study Questiones==<br /> 1. Why would Roy find it necessary to have Ethel Rosenburg killed? Could Roy have felt threatened by the loss of power acheived with Socialism?<br /> <br /> 2. Do you think Roy could have changed, even if he wanted to?<br /> <br /> 3. Do we feel justification when Roy dies painfully and disembarred? If yes, isn't that kind of a &quot;Roy-esk&quot; quality, if you will?<br /> <br /> ==External Resource==<br /> *[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Cohn Roy Cohn]</div>

RNickels https://litwiki.org/index.php?title=Perestroika_3.3&diff=9071 2006-04-25T02:00:34Z

<p>RNickels: summary, term 1, question 1</p> <hr /> <div>==Summary==<br /> Harper and Prior are together in the Mormon's visitor center watching a presentation about Mormans in a diorama. They both hallucinate Joe and Louis showing up in the diorama. Prior leaves and Harper follows one of the dummy's that has came to life out of the room.<br /> <br /> ==Terms==<br /> 1. [http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=proscenium proscenium] - The area of a modern theater that is located between the curtain and the orchestra<br /> <br /> ==Study Questions==<br /> 1. Why do Prior and Harper think they might have met before?</div>

RNickels https://litwiki.org/index.php?title=Perestroika_3.1&diff=9069 2006-04-25T01:37:02Z

<p>RNickels: </p> <hr /> <div>==Summary==<br /> Harper has changed out of the nightgown she has been wearing for three weeks. While he is at Louis',Joe talks to Harper in an hallucination and Harper tells Joe that she wishes he was dead and that Joe cannot save Louis. Later, Joe confesses to Louis that he is a Mormon.<br /> <br /> ==Terms==<br /> 1. [http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=Borborygmi Borborygmi] - A rumbling noise produced by the movement of gas through the intestines.<br /> <br /> 2. [http://dictionary.reference.com/search?r=2&amp;q=squamous Squamous] - Covered with or formed of scales; scaly.<br /> <br /> 3. [http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=moonie Moonie] - A member of the Unification Church.<br /> <br /> ==Study Questiones==<br /> 1. What is the significance of Louis' dream?<br /> <br /> 2. Who, in the dream, may the &quot;furiously angry woman&quot; represent (186)?</div>

RNickels https://litwiki.org/index.php?title=Perestroika_3.2&diff=9070 2006-04-25T01:36:06Z

<p>RNickels: </p> <hr /> <div>==Summary==<br /> The scene takes place in Roy's hospital room where Ethel appears and announces she is going to Roy's disbarment hearing. Belize discovers Roy's stash of pills and takes a few of the bottels, he says they are for a friend and we assume that they are for Prior.<br /> <br /> ==Terms==<br /> 1. [http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=jujubes Jujubes] - A fruit-flavored, usually chewy candy or lozenge.<br /> <br /> 2. [http://cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk/cgi-bin/omd?aZT Azidothymedine] - A nucleoside analogue used to slow replication of HIV. AZT is approved for the initial treatment of HIV infection. <br /> <br /> 3. [http://www.reference.com/browse/columbia/Hellman Lillian Hellman] - 1905–84, American dramatist.<br /> <br /> 4. [http://www.reference.com/browse/columbia/Yonkers Yonkers] - In New York, on the east bank of the Hudson river.<br /> <br /> 5. [http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=kike Kike] - Used as a disparaging term for a Jew.<br /> <br /> ==Study Questiones==<br /> <br /> 1. Based on what we have read so far, do you think Roy is going to live for the rest of the screenplay? Do we want to see Roy live to the end of the screenplay?</div>

RNickels https://litwiki.org/index.php?title=Perestroika_3.2&diff=7019 2006-04-25T01:35:38Z

<p>RNickels: summary, terms 1 - 5, study question 1</p> <hr /> <div>==Summary==<br /> The scene takes place in Roy's hospital room where Ethel appears and announces she is going to Roy's disbarment hearing. Belize discovers Roy's stash of pills and takes a few of the bottels, he says they are for a friend and we assume that they are for Prior.<br /> <br /> ==Terms==<br /> 1. [http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=jujubes Jujubes] - A fruit-flavored, usually chewy candy or lozenge.<br /> <br /> 2. [http://cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk/cgi-bin/omd?aZT Azidothymedine] - A nucleoside analogue used to slow replication of HIV AZT is approved for the initial treatment of HIV infection. <br /> <br /> 3. [http://www.reference.com/browse/columbia/Hellman Lillian Hellman] - 1905–84, American dramatist.<br /> <br /> 4. [http://www.reference.com/browse/columbia/Yonkers Yonkers] - In New York, on the east bank of the Hudson river.<br /> <br /> 5. [http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=kike Kike] - Used as a disparaging term for a Jew.<br /> <br /> ==Study Questiones==<br /> <br /> 1. Based on what we have read so far, do you think Roy is going to live for the rest of the screenplay? Do we want to see Roy live to the end of the screenplay?</div>

RNickels https://litwiki.org/index.php?title=Perestroika_3.1&diff=7020 2006-04-25T01:12:05Z

<p>RNickels: Summary, terms 1, 2, 3 and questiones 1 &amp;2</p> <hr /> <div>==Summary==<br /> Harper has changed out of the nightgown she has been wearing for three weeks. While he is at Louis',Joe talks to Harper in an hallucination and Harper tells Joe that she wishes he was dead and that Joe cannot save Louis. Later, Joe confesses to Louis that he is a Mormon.<br /> <br /> ==Terms==<br /> 1. [http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=Borborygmi Borborygmi] - A rumbling noise produced by the movement of gas through the intestines.<br /> <br /> 2. [http://dictionary.reference.com/search?r=2&amp;q=squamous Squamous]Covered with or formed of scales; scaly.<br /> <br /> 3. [http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=moonie Moonie]A member of the Unification Church.<br /> <br /> ==Study Questiones==<br /> 1. What is the significance of Louis' dream?<br /> <br /> 2. Who, in the dream, may the &quot;furiously angry woman&quot; represent (186)?</div>

RNickels https://litwiki.org/index.php?title=Breakfast_at_Tiffany%27s_Section_11&diff=6417 2006-03-23T00:45:45Z

<p>RNickels: </p> <hr /> <div>==Summary==<br /> José abandons Holly when her name appears in the paper as a playgirl linked with the drug ring headed by Sally Tomato. The unnamed narrator takes José's letter to Holly, who is in the hospital, having lost her baby in a scuffle with the police. Holly, who seemed child-like when the narrator first gets to the hospital, makes a visible change when she sees the letter. She seems to age and harden. She asks the narrator for her cosmetics, because &quot;A girl doesn't read this sort of thing without her lipstick.&quot; Holly applies lipstick and rouge, eyeliner and eyeshadow. She also puts on pearls, her dark glasses, sprays herself with perfume and lights a cigarette. She is readying her protective coating for what she expects to see in the letter (Garson 84).<br /> <br /> ==Notes==<br /> *'''4711''' (99) - A unisex cologne introduced in 1772 by [http://www.fragrancenet.com/f/net/mf_items.html?cat=00009&amp;cur_letter=4&amp;gs_gen=U=Muelhens Muelhens] . It contains citrus oils (lemon and orange), light floral rose and sandalwood oil. <br /> <br /> *&lt;i&gt;'''crise'''&lt;/i&gt; (100) - French for &quot;crisis&quot;<br /> <br /> *&lt;i&gt;'''la merde'''&lt;/i&gt; (100) - French for &quot;shit&quot;<br /> <br /> *&lt;i&gt;'''schluffen'''&lt;/i&gt; (101) - A German word meaning &quot;sleep&quot; <br /> <br /> *&lt;i&gt;'''Et pourquoi pas'''&lt;/i&gt; (101) - French for &quot;and why not&quot; <br /> <br /> *&lt;i&gt;'''bouche fermez'''&lt;/i&gt; (102) - French for &quot;close your mouth&quot;<br /> <br /> *'''Purple Heart''' (103) - Is a U.S. military decoration awarded in the name of the President of the United States to those who have been wounded or killed while serving in, or with the U.S. military after April 5, 1917. <br /> <br /> *'''Maude''' (103) - In homosexual slang, &quot;maude&quot; signifies a male prostitute or a male homosexual.<br /> <br /> *'''[http://www.enolagaia.com/ImTheGuy.html picayune]''' (99) - New Orlean's made cigarettes that were discontinued in the 1960's.<br /> <br /> *'''Mainbocher''' (100) - an expensive clothing line from the early 1900's; introduced the strappless evening gown.<br /> <br /> ==Commentary==<br /> While she is recovering in the hospital, the narrator goes to Holly's apartment and discovers José's cousin packing his things. The man leaves with Josés possessions giving the narrator only a letter, from Jose to Holly. Holly is displayed on the front page of every newspaper. &quot;PLAYGIRL ARRESTED IN NARCOTICS SCANDAL&quot; was just one of the headlines. This turned out to be too much for Jose to deal with. His entire life was more dedicated to his public career, rather than having a wife and family. He fled for Brazil saying in his letter to Holly, &quot;But conceive of my despair upon discovering in such a brutal and public style how very different you are from the manner of woman a man of my faith and career could hope to make his wife. Verily I grief for the disgrace of your present circumstance, and do not find it in my heart to add condemn to the condemn that surrounds you&quot; (Cash 1) .<br /> <br /> Secondly, when Holly tells the narrator that she will not testify against Sally Tomato, she calls the narrator a name laden with queer meaning: &quot;Well, I may be rotten to the core, Maude, but: testify against a friend I will not.&quot; In homosexual slang, &quot;maude signifies a male prostitute or a male homosexual.The narrator himself makes a veiled reference to his homosexuality when he compares his rain-soaked trip from Holly's apartment to Joe Bell's bar to another difficult journey he had made years ago: &quot;Never mind why, but once I walked from New Orleans to Nancy's Landing, Mississippi, just under five hundred miles. Nancy's Landing is Capote's creation; it does not exist geographically. According to A Dictionary of the Underworld, &quot;Nancy&quot; refers either to the posterior or to &quot;an effeminate man, especially a passive homosexual.&quot; &quot;Nancy's Landing,&quot; then serves as Capote's code phrase for a homosexual. Thus, the narrator's coy rejoinder that the reader should &quot;never mind why&quot; he made the trip appears as a subtle move to direct attention away from his self-confession (Pugh 1).<br /> <br /> Holly labels José &quot;a rat&quot; like all the others, although she finally agrees bitterly with the narrator that José's reasons for giving her up, his religion and his career, are valid for the type of man he is. Holly then decides to flee the country, using the ticket for Brazil that José had brought her. For a time it seemed that Holly had found her dream, her &quot;place where me and things belong together.&quot; Her relationship with José might have been like her vision of Tiffany's, with &quot;quietness and the proud look of it; nothing very bad could happen to you there&quot; (Garson 84, 85).<br /> <br /> In his book, ''Truman Capote'', Kenneth Reed states that ''Breakfast at Tiffany's'', shares with most of Capote's other fiction a concern for people who are liberated from the more commonplace moorings of social and cultural life, and who are scarcely concerned with such things as family relationships and middle class notions of respectability. For example, when the narrator warns Holly that if she jumps bail, she will never again be able to come home, it impresses her not at all (Reed 92).<br /> <br /> ''Breakfast at Tiffany's'' is a showcase for Holly Golightly. O.J. Berman introduced her as a &quot;real phony&quot; who honestly &quot;believes all this crap she believes,&quot; and the remainder of the story is a gradual exposition of the content of this belief. All her life she has known deprivation and death and fought a desparate battle against fear. It is, finally, the awareness of death that keeps her from feeling at home anywhere and impels her on a constant search for something better (Nance 1).<br /> <br /> ==Study Questions==<br /> # If José was so concerned with his career, why would he get involved with someone like Holly?<br /> # Why does Holly call the narrator a maude?<br /> # Did José know that Holly was pregnant with his child?<br /> # Was Holly a prostitute?<br /> # Did the narrator love Holly?<br /> <br /> =External Sources=<br /> [http://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple_Heart]<br /> [http;//en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/twat]<br /> <br /> ==Works Cited==<br /> *Cash, Mathew. ''[http://www.personal.umich.edu/~bcash/criticalanalysis A Travelin' Through the Pastures of the Sky: A Critical Analysis of &lt;i&gt;Breakfast at Tiffany's&lt;/i&gt;].'' 1996.<br /> *Garson, Helen S. ''Truman Capote''. New York: Ungar, 1980: 84-85.<br /> *Nance, Willian L. ''The World's of Truman Capote''. New York: Stein and Day, 1970.<br /> *Pugh, Tison. ''&quot;Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's.&quot;'' The Explicator 6.1 (Fall 2002): 51-53.<br /> *Reed, Kenneth T. ''Truman Capote''. Miami University (Ohio): Twayne, 1981.<br /> <br /> [[Category:Literature]]</div>

RNickels https://litwiki.org/index.php?title=Breakfast_at_Tiffany%27s_Section_11&diff=6412 2006-03-22T23:09:18Z

<p>RNickels: </p> <hr /> <div>==Summary==<br /> José abandons Holly when her name appears in the paper as a playgirl linked with the drug ring headed by Sally Tomato. The unnamed narrator takes José's letter to Holly, who is in the hospital, having lost her baby in a scuffle with the police. Holly, who seemed child-like when the narrator first gets to the hospital, makes a visible change when she sees the letter. She seems to age and harden. She asks the narrator for her cosmetics, because &quot;A girl doesn't read this sort of thing without her lipstick.&quot; Holly applies lipstick and rouge, eyeliner and eyeshadow. She also puts on pearls, her dark glasses, sprays herself with perfume and lights a cigarette. She is readying her protective coating for what she expects to see in the letter (Garson 84).<br /> <br /> ==Notes==<br /> *'''4711''' (99) - A unisex cologne introduced in 1772 by [http://www.fragrancenet.com/f/net/mf_items.html?cat=00009&amp;cur_letter=4&amp;gs_gen=U=Muelhens Muelhens] . It contains citrus oils (lemon and orange), light floral rose and sandalwood oil. <br /> <br /> *&lt;i&gt;'''crise'''&lt;/i&gt; (100) - French for &quot;crisis&quot;<br /> <br /> *&lt;i&gt;'''la merde'''&lt;/i&gt; (100) - French for &quot;shit&quot;<br /> <br /> *&lt;i&gt;'''schluffen'''&lt;/i&gt; (101) - A German word meaning &quot;sleep&quot; <br /> <br /> *&lt;i&gt;'''Et pourquoi pas'''&lt;/i&gt; (101) - French for &quot;and why not&quot; <br /> <br /> *&lt;i&gt;'''bouche fermez'''&lt;/i&gt; (102) - French for &quot;close your mouth&quot;<br /> <br /> *'''twat''' (103) - Is a vulgar expression originally used to refer to the female genitalia.<br /> <br /> *'''Purple Heart''' (103) - Is a U.S. military decoration awarded in the name of the President of the United States to those who have been wounded or killed while serving in, or with the U.S. military after April 5, 1917. <br /> <br /> *'''Maude''' (103) - In homosexual slang, &quot;maude&quot; signifies a male prostitute or a male homosexual.<br /> <br /> ==Commentary==<br /> While she is recovering in the hospital, the narrator goes to Holly's apartment and discovers José's cousin packing his things. The man leaves with Josés possessions giving the narrator only a letter, from Jose to Holly. Holly is displayed on the front page of every newspaper. &quot;PLAYGIRL ARRESTED IN NARCOTICS SCANDAL&quot; was just one of the headlines. This turned out to be too much for Jose to deal with. His entire life was more dedicated to his public career, rather than having a wife and family. He fled for Brazil saying in his letter to Holly, &quot;But conceive of my despair upon discovering in such a brutal and public style how very different you are from the manner of woman a man of my faith and career could hope to make his wife. Verily I grief for the disgrace of your present circumstance, and do not find it in my heart to add condemn to the condemn that surrounds you&quot; (Cash 1) .<br /> <br /> Secondly, when Holly tells the narrator that she will not testify against Sally Tomato, she calls the narrator a name laden with queer meaning: &quot;Well, I may be rotten to the core, Maude, but: testify against a friend I will not.&quot; In homosexual slang, &quot;maude signifies a male prostitute or a male homosexual.The narrator himself makes a veiled reference to his homosexuality when he compares his rain-soaked trip from Holly's apartment to Joe Bell's bar to another difficult journey he had made years ago: &quot;Never mind why, but once I walked from New Orleans to Nancy's Landing, Mississippi, just under five hundred miles. Nancy's Landing is Capote's creation; it does not exist geographically. According to A Dictionary of the Underworld, &quot;Nancy&quot; refers either to the posterior or to &quot;an effeminate man, especially a passive homosexual.&quot; &quot;Nancy's Landing,&quot; then serves as Capote's code phrase for a homosexual. Thus, the narrator's coy rejoinder that the reader should &quot;never mind why&quot; he made the trip appears as a subtle move to direct attention away from his self-confession (Pugh 1).<br /> <br /> Holly labels José &quot;a rat&quot; like all the others, although she finally agrees bitterly with the narrator that José's reasons for giving her up, his religion and his career, are valid for the type of man he is. Holly then decides to flee the country, using the ticket for Brazil that José had brought her. For a time it seemed that Holly had found her dream, her &quot;place where me and things belong together.&quot; Her relationship with José might have been like her vision of Tiffany's, with &quot;quietness and the proud look of it; nothing very bad could happen to you there&quot; (Garson 84, 85).<br /> <br /> In his book, ''Truman Capote'', Kenneth Reed states that ''Breakfast at Tiffany's'', shares with most of Capote's other fiction a concern for people who are liberated from the more commonplace moorings of social and cultural life, and who are scarcely concerned with such things as family relationships and middle class notions of respectability. For example, when the narrator warns Holly that if she jumps bail, she will never again be able to come home, it impresses her not at all (Reed 92).<br /> <br /> ''Breakfast at Tiffany's'' is a showcase for Holly Golightly. O.J. Berman introduced her as a &quot;real phony&quot; who honestly &quot;believes all this crap she believes,&quot; and the remainder of the story is a gradual exposition of the content of this belief. All her life she has known deprivation and death and fought a desparate battle against fear. It is, finally, the awareness of death that keeps her from feeling at home anywhere and impels her on a constant search for something better (Nance 1).<br /> <br /> ==Study Questions==<br /> # If José was so concerned with his career, why would he get involved with someone like Holly?<br /> # Why does Holly call the narrator a maude?<br /> # Did José know that Holly was pregnant with his child?<br /> # Was Holly a prostitute?<br /> # Did the narrator love Holly?<br /> <br /> =External Sources=<br /> [http://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple_Heart]<br /> [http;//en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/twat]<br /> <br /> ==Works Cited==<br /> *Cash, Mathew. ''[http://www.personal.umich.edu/~bcash/criticalanalysis A Travelin' Through the Pastures of the Sky: A Critical Analysis of &lt;i&gt;Breakfast at Tiffany's&lt;/i&gt;].'' 1996.<br /> *Garson, Helen S. ''Truman Capote''. New York: Ungar, 1980: 84-85.<br /> *Nance, Willian L. ''The World's of Truman Capote''. New York: Stein and Day, 1970.<br /> *Pugh, Tison. ''&quot;Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's.&quot;'' The Explicator 6.1 (Fall 2002): 51-53.<br /> *Reed, Kenneth T. ''Truman Capote''. Miami University (Ohio): Twayne, 1981.<br /> <br /> [[Category:Literature]]</div>

RNickels https://litwiki.org/index.php?title=Breakfast_at_Tiffany%27s_Section_5&diff=6317 2006-03-22T01:03:50Z

<p>RNickels: </p> <hr /> <div>== Summary ==<br /> The protagonist begins working a nine to five job and, as a result, sees less of Holly Golightly (the image of Holly Golightly played by Audrey Hepburn in Hollywood's version of Breakfast at Tiffany's[http://images.forbes.com/images/2001/10/10/pow_400x475.jpg]). One day, he sees Holly walking into a library and lets his curiosity get the best of him. He observes her without her knowledge, and when she leaves he examines the books on her table. He discovers that she is reading up on Brazil. Watching her read, the narrator compares her to a girl he knew in school, Mildred Grossman. Although they were totally opposite fromm each other, the protagonist compares them to Siamese twins. The very thing that makes them so alike is that they are so different from anyone the narrator has ever met, and that &quot;they would never change because they'd been given their character too soon&quot; (58). One is intraverted and practical; the other is extraverted and impractical.<br /> <br /> The narration shifts to a party on Christmas Eve in Holly's apartment. The narrator is asked to come over and help trim the Christmas tree. Holly gives the narrator an expensive, antique bird cage for Christmas; he gives Holly a St. Christopher's medal from Tiffany's. The cost of the bird cage is three hundred and fifty dollars. Holly does not seem bothered by the cost, she makes just a few extra trips to the powder room so she could afford the bird cage.<br /> <br /> In February, Holly, Rusty, Mag, and José take a trip to the tropics. In Key West, Mag becomes severely sunburned, and Rusty is injured in a fight with some sailors. Both are hospitalized, so José and Holly travel to Havana. Mag becomes suspicious that José and Holly are sleeping together, so Holly tells Mag that she is a lesbian. Holly recounts these events as the protagonist gives her a back massage. Mag goes out and buys an army cot to sleep on so she will not have to share the bed with a lesbian. Holly informs the narrator that she has given O.J. Berman a copy of the narrator's story without his consent. Bernam publishes the story in the University Review. They become engaged in an argument, the protagonist is tempted to hit Holly, and Holly throws the narrator out of her apartment: &quot;It should take you about four seconds to walk from here to the door. I'll give you two&quot; (63).<br /> <br /> == Notes ==<br /> *'''hither''' (55) - to this place (seldom used except in poetry and legal papers).<br /> *'''yonning''' (55) - distant but in sight. From [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/yon yon].<br /> *'''overhaul''' (58) - a major repair or [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/revision revision].<br /> *'''Rockefeller Plaza''' (59) - A place where people gathered to celebrate the biggest, brightest Christmas tree of all. Celebrated since [http://wnbc.com/christmastree/1775354/detail.html=1933 1933]. Veiw the Rockefeller Plaza[[Image:[http://mijnposter.nl/thumbs/487/011s.jpeg]]]http://www.ccfagreetingcards.com/_images/HG_Rockefeller_Center_Christmas_Tree.jpg.<br /> *'''[http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/tinsel tinsel]''' (59) - a thread, strip, or sheet of metal, paper, or plastic used to produce a glittering and sparkling appearance in fabrics, yarns, or decorations.<br /> *'''baubles''' (59) - Christmas ornaments that are decorations (usually made of glass, metal, wood or ceramics) that are used to [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/festoon festoon] a Christmas tree.<br /> *[[Image:PW242.jpg|thumb|St. Christopher's Medal]]'''St. Christopher's medal''' (59) - a small medallion depicting the patron saint against [http://www.catholic-forum.com/saintS/pst00432.htm lightning]; against [http://www.catholic-forum.com/saintS/pst00555.htm pestilence]; [http://www.catholic-forum.com/saintS/pst00032.htm archers]; [http://www.catholic-forum.com/saintS/pst00050.htm automobile drivers]; [http://www.catholic-forum.com/saintS/pst00050.htm automobilists]; [http://www.catholic-forum.com/saintS/pst00051.htm bachelors], etc.<br /> *'''Woolworth''' (59) - one of the first [http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery?method=4&amp;dsid=2222&amp;dekey=Five+and+dime&amp;curtab=2222_1&amp;linktext=five-and-ten-cent%20stores five and dime] stores. Woolworth's is now known as Footlocker.<br /> *'''&quot;Wuthering Heights&quot;''' - a novel published in 1847 by Emily Bronte. [http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/wuthering/context.html Heights] was not accepted by most at first, even by Bronte's sister, but is now regarded as a masterpeice.<br /> <br /> ==Commentary==<br /> Self-deception is not one of Holly's failings, although she is an extraordinary liar. It doesn't trouble her to beguile others when it suits her purpose. She constructs a world around her to make things as pleasant as she can, inventing stories when the truth is too painful to discuss. Berman, who calls Holly a &quot;phony&quot;, modifies it to &quot;a ''real'' phony,&quot; because, he claims, &quot;she believes all this crap she believes.&quot; The narrator doesn't think of Holly that way (Garson 82).<br /> <br /> Since her moral code differs from that of society, Holly has no qualms about lying. To protect herself or to keep people from getting too close, or from knowing too much about her, she fabricates. She fictionalizes when reality is grim and threatens to bring on the &quot;blues&quot; (sadness), or the &quot;mean reds&quot; (fear/angst). Unwilling to share her memories of her early life. Holly invents a beautiful fantasy childhood for herself when the narrator tells her of his own unhappy boyhood.<br /> Holly also lies when a situation is not to her liking. At the first party, when an acquaintance, Mag Wildwood, barges in and draws the attention of all the men, Holly retaliates by insinuating that Mag has a terrible disease. Another time, to keep Mag from learning that she has slept with Mag's lover, Jose, Holly breezily pretends she is a lesbian, partly to deceive Mag and partly for the humor of the deception (Garson 82, 83).<br /> <br /> Holly's moral code and the fact that she is a real phony are exemplified in this section when she goes to the library and reads through books about Brazil and South America. Holly is trying to morph herself into a person from South America and this is our first clue that Holly is planning on going back to Brazil with Jose (whether Jose knows this or not is not presented to us). I believe this is what O.J. means by a &quot;real phony&quot;. She is definitely not from Brazil, or even South America, but by the time she makes it there, she will be able to act like she has lived there all her life, as shown to us by the way she could change from a farm-raised girl to a Hollywood actress to a New York [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeloader freeloader].<br /> <br /> ==Study Questions==<br /> # Why does Holly pretend to be a lesbian?<br /> # What makes Holly an extraordinary liar?<br /> # Why is Holly unwilling to share memories from her childhood?<br /> # Is Mag Wildwood really a lesbian?<br /> # Do the sailors beat up Rusty Trawler because he is a homosexual?<br /> # Does the narrator believe Holly is a prostitute?<br /> # Why does Holly surround herself with gay men?<br /> # Why is Holly only able to show emotion when her sunglasses are off?<br /> # Because the narrator makes numerous comments on Jose attributes, is he attracted to him?<br /> <br /> ==Works Cited==<br /> *Cash, Matthew. &quot;[http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bcash/critiicalanalysis.html A-Travelin through the Pastures of the Sky]&quot;. 1996<br /> <br /> *Garson, Helen S. &quot;[http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/LitRC?vrsn=3&amp;OP=contains&amp;locID=maco12153&amp;srchtp=athr&amp;ca=1&amp;c=30&amp;ste=16&amp;stab=512&amp;tab=2&amp;tbst=arp&amp;ai=15706&amp;n=10&amp;docNum=H1420065645&amp;ST=Truman+Capote&amp;bConts=16047 Truman Capote:A Study on Short Fiction]&quot;.New York: Ungar, 1980.<br /> *Pugh, Tison. &quot;[http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/LitRC?vrsn=3&amp;OP=contains&amp;locID=maco12153&amp;srchtp=athr&amp;ca=1&amp;c=36&amp;ste=16&amp;stab=512&amp;tab=2&amp;tbst=arp&amp;ai=15706&amp;n=10&amp;docNum=H1420065651&amp;ST=Truman+Capote&amp;bConts=16047 Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's].&quot; Rev. of Breakfast At Tiffany's, by Truman Capote. Explicator 61.1: 51. 19 Mar. 2006 &lt;http://www.explicator.com&gt;. <br /> <br /> *[Wikipedia.org/http://en.wikipedia.org]<br /> <br /> [[Breakfast at Tiffany's Section 4|Section four]] | [[Breakfast at Tiffany's]] | [[Breakfast at Tiffany's Section 6|Section six]]<br /> <br /> <br /> [[Category:Literature]]</div>

RNickels https://litwiki.org/index.php?title=Breakfast_at_Tiffany%27s_Section_5&diff=6316 2006-03-22T01:02:11Z

<p>RNickels: </p> <hr /> <div>== Summary ==<br /> The protagonist begins working a nine to five job and, as a result, sees less of Holly Golightly (the image of Holly Golightly played by Audrey Hepburn in Hollywood's version of Breakfast at Tiffany's[http://images.forbes.com/images/2001/10/10/pow_400x475.jpg]). One day, he sees Holly walking into a library and lets his curiosity get the best of him. He observes her without her knowledge, and when she leaves he examines the books on her table. He discovers that she is reading up on Brazil. Watching her read, the narrator compares her to a girl he knew in school, Mildred Grossman. Although they were totally opposite fromm each other, the protagonist compares them to Siamese twins. The very thing that makes them so alike is that they are so different from anyone the narrator has ever met, and that &quot;they would never change because they'd been given their character too soon&quot; (58). One is intraverted and practical; the other is extraverted and impractical.<br /> <br /> The narration shifts to a party on Christmas Eve in Holly's apartment. The narrator is asked to come over and help trim the Christmas tree. Holly gives the narrator an expensive, antique bird cage for Christmas; he gives Holly a St. Christopher's medal from Tiffany's. The cost of the bird cage is three hundred and fifty dollars. Holly does not seem bothered by the cost, she makes just a few extra trips to the powder room so she could afford the bird cage.<br /> <br /> In February, Holly, Rusty, Mag, and José take a trip to the tropics. In Key West, Mag becomes severely sunburned, and Rusty is injured in a fight with some sailors. Both are hospitalized, so José and Holly travel to Havana. Mag becomes suspicious that José and Holly are sleeping together, so Holly tells Mag that she is a lesbian. Holly recounts these events as the protagonist gives her a back massage. Mag goes out and buys an army cot to sleep on so she will not have to share the bed with a lesbian. Holly informs the narrator that she has given O.J. Berman a copy of the narrator's story without his consent. Bernam publishes the story in the University Review. They become engaged in an argument, the protagonist is tempted to hit Holly, and Holly throws the narrator out of her apartment: &quot;It should take you about four seconds to walk from here to the door. I'll give you two&quot; (63).<br /> <br /> == Notes ==<br /> *'''hither''' (55) - to this place (seldom used except in poetry and legal papers).<br /> *'''yonning''' (55) - distant but in sight. From [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/yon yon].<br /> *'''overhaul''' (58) - a major repair or [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/revision revision].<br /> *'''Rockefeller Plaza''' (59) - A place where people gathered to celebrate the biggest, brightest Christmas tree of all. Celebrated since [http://wnbc.com/christmastree/1775354/detail.html=1933 1933]. Veiw the Rockefeller Plaza[[Image:[http://mijnposter.nl/thumbs/487/011s.jpeg]]]http://www.ccfagreetingcards.com/_images/HG_Rockefeller_Center_Christmas_Tree.jpg.<br /> *'''[http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/tinsel tinsel]''' (59) - a thread, strip, or sheet of metal, paper, or plastic used to produce a glittering and sparkling appearance in fabrics, yarns, or decorations.<br /> *'''baubles''' (59) - Christmas ornaments that are decorations (usually made of glass, metal, wood or ceramics) that are used to [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/festoon festoon] a Christmas tree.<br /> *[[Image:PW242.jpg|thumb|St. Christopher's Medal]]'''St. Christopher's medal''' (59) - a small medallion depicting the patron saint against [http://www.catholic-forum.com/saintS/pst00432.htm lightning]; against [http://www.catholic-forum.com/saintS/pst00555.htm pestilence]; [http://www.catholic-forum.com/saintS/pst00032.htm archers]; [http://www.catholic-forum.com/saintS/pst00050.htm automobile drivers]; [http://www.catholic-forum.com/saintS/pst00050.htm automobilists]; [http://www.catholic-forum.com/saintS/pst00051.htm bachelors], etc.<br /> *'''Woolworth''' (59) - one of the first [http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery?method=4&amp;dsid=2222&amp;dekey=Five+and+dime&amp;curtab=2222_1&amp;linktext=five-and-ten-cent%20stores five and dime] stores. Woolworth's is now known as Footlocker.<br /> *'''&quot;Wuthering Heights&quot;''' - a novel published in 1847 by Emily Bronte. [http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/wuthering/context.html Heights] did not become popular until later, but is now regarded as a masterpeice.<br /> <br /> ==Commentary==<br /> Self-deception is not one of Holly's failings, although she is an extraordinary liar. It doesn't trouble her to beguile others when it suits her purpose. She constructs a world around her to make things as pleasant as she can, inventing stories when the truth is too painful to discuss. Berman, who calls Holly a &quot;phony&quot;, modifies it to &quot;a ''real'' phony,&quot; because, he claims, &quot;she believes all this crap she believes.&quot; The narrator doesn't think of Holly that way (Garson 82).<br /> <br /> Since her moral code differs from that of society, Holly has no qualms about lying. To protect herself or to keep people from getting too close, or from knowing too much about her, she fabricates. She fictionalizes when reality is grim and threatens to bring on the &quot;blues&quot; (sadness), or the &quot;mean reds&quot; (fear/angst). Unwilling to share her memories of her early life. Holly invents a beautiful fantasy childhood for herself when the narrator tells her of his own unhappy boyhood.<br /> Holly also lies when a situation is not to her liking. At the first party, when an acquaintance, Mag Wildwood, barges in and draws the attention of all the men, Holly retaliates by insinuating that Mag has a terrible disease. Another time, to keep Mag from learning that she has slept with Mag's lover, Jose, Holly breezily pretends she is a lesbian, partly to deceive Mag and partly for the humor of the deception (Garson 82, 83).<br /> <br /> Holly's moral code and the fact that she is a real phony are exemplified in this section when she goes to the library and reads through books about Brazil and South America. Holly is trying to morph herself into a person from South America and this is our first clue that Holly is planning on going back to Brazil with Jose (whether Jose knows this or not is not presented to us). I believe this is what O.J. means by a &quot;real phony&quot;. She is definitely not from Brazil, or even South America, but by the time she makes it there, she will be able to act like she has lived there all her life, as shown to us by the way she could change from a farm-raised girl to a Hollywood actress to a New York [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeloader freeloader].<br /> <br /> ==Study Questions==<br /> # Why does Holly pretend to be a lesbian?<br /> # What makes Holly an extraordinary liar?<br /> # Why is Holly unwilling to share memories from her childhood?<br /> # Is Mag Wildwood really a lesbian?<br /> # Do the sailors beat up Rusty Trawler because he is a homosexual?<br /> # Does the narrator believe Holly is a prostitute?<br /> # Why does Holly surround herself with gay men?<br /> # Why is Holly only able to show emotion when her sunglasses are off?<br /> # Because the narrator makes numerous comments on Jose attributes, is he attracted to him?<br /> <br /> ==Works Cited==<br /> *Cash, Matthew. &quot;[http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bcash/critiicalanalysis.html A-Travelin through the Pastures of the Sky]&quot;. 1996<br /> <br /> *Garson, Helen S. &quot;[http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/LitRC?vrsn=3&amp;OP=contains&amp;locID=maco12153&amp;srchtp=athr&amp;ca=1&amp;c=30&amp;ste=16&amp;stab=512&amp;tab=2&amp;tbst=arp&amp;ai=15706&amp;n=10&amp;docNum=H1420065645&amp;ST=Truman+Capote&amp;bConts=16047 Truman Capote:A Study on Short Fiction]&quot;.New York: Ungar, 1980.<br /> *Pugh, Tison. &quot;[http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/LitRC?vrsn=3&amp;OP=contains&amp;locID=maco12153&amp;srchtp=athr&amp;ca=1&amp;c=36&amp;ste=16&amp;stab=512&amp;tab=2&amp;tbst=arp&amp;ai=15706&amp;n=10&amp;docNum=H1420065651&amp;ST=Truman+Capote&amp;bConts=16047 Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's].&quot; Rev. of Breakfast At Tiffany's, by Truman Capote. Explicator 61.1: 51. 19 Mar. 2006 &lt;http://www.explicator.com&gt;. <br /> <br /> *[Wikipedia.org/http://en.wikipedia.org]<br /> <br /> [[Breakfast at Tiffany's Section 4|Section four]] | [[Breakfast at Tiffany's]] | [[Breakfast at Tiffany's Section 6|Section six]]<br /> <br /> <br /> [[Category:Literature]]</div>

RNickels https://litwiki.org/index.php?title=Breakfast_at_Tiffany%27s_Section_5&diff=6315 2006-03-22T00:59:13Z

<p>RNickels: </p> <hr /> <div>== Summary ==<br /> The protagonist begins working a nine to five job and, as a result, sees less of Holly Golightly (the image of Holly Golightly played by Audrey Hepburn in Hollywood's version of Breakfast at Tiffany's[http://images.forbes.com/images/2001/10/10/pow_400x475.jpg]). One day, he sees Holly walking into a library and lets his curiosity get the best of him. He observes her without her knowledge, and when she leaves he examines the books on her table. He discovers that she is reading up on Brazil. Watching her read, the narrator compares her to a girl he knew in school, Mildred Grossman. Although they were totally opposite fromm each other, the protagonist compares them to Siamese twins. The very thing that makes them so alike is that they are so different from anyone the narrator has ever met, and that &quot;they would never change because they'd been given their character too soon&quot; (58). One is intraverted and practical; the other is extraverted and impractical.<br /> <br /> The narration shifts to a party on Christmas Eve in Holly's apartment. The narrator is asked to come over and help trim the Christmas tree. Holly gives the narrator an expensive, antique bird cage for Christmas; he gives Holly a St. Christopher's medal from Tiffany's. The cost of the bird cage is three hundred and fifty dollars. Holly does not seem bothered by the cost, she makes just a few extra trips to the powder room so she could afford the bird cage.<br /> <br /> In February, Holly, Rusty, Mag, and José take a trip to the tropics. In Key West, Mag becomes severely sunburned, and Rusty is injured in a fight with some sailors. Both are hospitalized, so José and Holly travel to Havana. Mag becomes suspicious that José and Holly are sleeping together, so Holly tells Mag that she is a lesbian. Holly recounts these events as the protagonist gives her a back massage. Mag goes out and buys an army cot to sleep on so she will not have to share the bed with a lesbian. Holly informs the narrator that she has given O.J. Berman a copy of the narrator's story without his consent. Bernam publishes the story in the University Review. They become engaged in an argument, the protagonist is tempted to hit Holly, and Holly throws the narrator out of her apartment: &quot;It should take you about four seconds to walk from here to the door. I'll give you two&quot; (63).<br /> <br /> == Notes ==<br /> *'''hither''' (55) - to this place (seldom used except in poetry and legal papers).<br /> *'''yonning''' (55) - distant but in sight. From [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/yon yon].<br /> *'''overhaul''' (58) - a major repair or [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/revision revision].<br /> *'''Rockefeller Plaza''' (59) - A place where people gathered to celebrate the biggest, brightest Christmas tree of all. Celebrated since [http://wnbc.com/christmastree/1775354/detail.html=1933 1933]. Veiw the Rockefeller Plaza[[Image:[http://mijnposter.nl/thumbs/487/011s.jpeg]]]http://www.ccfagreetingcards.com/_images/HG_Rockefeller_Center_Christmas_Tree.jpg.<br /> *'''tinsel''' (59) - a thread, strip, or sheet of metal, paper, or plastic used to produce a glittering and sparkling appearance in fabrics, yarns, or decorations.[http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/tinsel].<br /> *'''baubles''' (59) - Christmas ornaments that are decorations (usually made of glass, metal, wood or ceramics) that are used to [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/festoon festoon] a Christmas tree.<br /> *[[Image:PW242.jpg|thumb|St. Christopher's Medal]]'''St. Christopher's medal''' (59) - a small medallion depicting the patron saint against [http://www.catholic-forum.com/saintS/pst00432.htm lightning]; against [http://www.catholic-forum.com/saintS/pst00555.htm pestilence]; [http://www.catholic-forum.com/saintS/pst00032.htm archers]; [http://www.catholic-forum.com/saintS/pst00050.htm automobile drivers]; [http://www.catholic-forum.com/saintS/pst00050.htm automobilists]; [http://www.catholic-forum.com/saintS/pst00051.htm bachelors], etc.<br /> *'''Woolworth''' (59) - one of the first [http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery?method=4&amp;dsid=2222&amp;dekey=Five+and+dime&amp;curtab=2222_1&amp;linktext=five-and-ten-cent%20stores five and dime] stores. Woolworth's is now known as Footlocker.<br /> *'''&quot;Wuthering Heights&quot;''' - a novel published in 1847 by Emily Bronte. [http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/wuthering/context.html Heights] did not become popular until later, but is now regarded as a masterpeice.<br /> <br /> ==Commentary==<br /> Self-deception is not one of Holly's failings, although she is an extraordinary liar. It doesn't trouble her to beguile others when it suits her purpose. She constructs a world around her to make things as pleasant as she can, inventing stories when the truth is too painful to discuss. Berman, who calls Holly a &quot;phony&quot;, modifies it to &quot;a ''real'' phony,&quot; because, he claims, &quot;she believes all this crap she believes.&quot; The narrator doesn't think of Holly that way (Garson 82).<br /> <br /> Since her moral code differs from that of society, Holly has no qualms about lying. To protect herself or to keep people from getting too close, or from knowing too much about her, she fabricates. She fictionalizes when reality is grim and threatens to bring on the &quot;blues&quot; (sadness), or the &quot;mean reds&quot; (fear/angst). Unwilling to share her memories of her early life. Holly invents a beautiful fantasy childhood for herself when the narrator tells her of his own unhappy boyhood.<br /> Holly also lies when a situation is not to her liking. At the first party, when an acquaintance, Mag Wildwood, barges in and draws the attention of all the men, Holly retaliates by insinuating that Mag has a terrible disease. Another time, to keep Mag from learning that she has slept with Mag's lover, Jose, Holly breezily pretends she is a lesbian, partly to deceive Mag and partly for the humor of the deception (Garson 82, 83).<br /> <br /> Holly's moral code and the fact that she is a real phony are exemplified in this section when she goes to the library and reads through books about Brazil and South America. Holly is trying to morph herself into a person from South America and this is our first clue that Holly is planning on going back to Brazil with Jose (whether Jose knows this or not is not presented to us). I believe this is what O.J. means by a &quot;real phony&quot;. She is definitely not from Brazil, or even South America, but by the time she makes it there, she will be able to act like she has lived there all her life, as shown to us by the way she could change from a farm-raised girl to a Hollywood actress to a New York [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeloader freeloader].<br /> <br /> ==Study Questions==<br /> # Why does Holly pretend to be a lesbian?<br /> # What makes Holly an extraordinary liar?<br /> # Why is Holly unwilling to share memories from her childhood?<br /> # Is Mag Wildwood really a lesbian?<br /> # Do the sailors beat up Rusty Trawler because he is a homosexual?<br /> # Does the narrator believe Holly is a prostitute?<br /> # Why does Holly surround herself with gay men?<br /> # Why is Holly only able to show emotion when her sunglasses are off?<br /> # Because the narrator makes numerous comments on Jose attributes, is he attracted to him?<br /> <br /> ==Works Cited==<br /> *Cash, Matthew. &quot;[http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bcash/critiicalanalysis.html A-Travelin through the Pastures of the Sky]&quot;. 1996<br /> <br /> *Garson, Helen S. &quot;[http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/LitRC?vrsn=3&amp;OP=contains&amp;locID=maco12153&amp;srchtp=athr&amp;ca=1&amp;c=30&amp;ste=16&amp;stab=512&amp;tab=2&amp;tbst=arp&amp;ai=15706&amp;n=10&amp;docNum=H1420065645&amp;ST=Truman+Capote&amp;bConts=16047 Truman Capote:A Study on Short Fiction]&quot;.New York: Ungar, 1980.<br /> *Pugh, Tison. &quot;[http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/LitRC?vrsn=3&amp;OP=contains&amp;locID=maco12153&amp;srchtp=athr&amp;ca=1&amp;c=36&amp;ste=16&amp;stab=512&amp;tab=2&amp;tbst=arp&amp;ai=15706&amp;n=10&amp;docNum=H1420065651&amp;ST=Truman+Capote&amp;bConts=16047 Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's].&quot; Rev. of Breakfast At Tiffany's, by Truman Capote. Explicator 61.1: 51. 19 Mar. 2006 &lt;http://www.explicator.com&gt;. <br /> <br /> *[Wikipedia.org/http://en.wikipedia.org]<br /> <br /> [[Breakfast at Tiffany's Section 4|Section four]] | [[Breakfast at Tiffany's]] | [[Breakfast at Tiffany's Section 6|Section six]]<br /> <br /> <br /> [[Category:Literature]]</div>

RNickels https://litwiki.org/index.php?title=Breakfast_at_Tiffany%27s_Section_5&diff=6312 2006-03-22T00:52:09Z

<p>RNickels: </p> <hr /> <div>== Summary ==<br /> The protagonist begins working a nine to five job and, as a result, sees less of Holly Golightly (the image of Holly Golightly played by Audrey Hepburn in Hollywood's version of Breakfast at Tiffany's[http://images.forbes.com/images/2001/10/10/pow_400x475.jpg]). One day, he sees Holly walking into a library and lets his curiosity get the best of him. He observes her without her knowledge, and when she leaves he examines the books on her table. He discovers that she is reading up on Brazil. Watching her read, the narrator compares her to a girl he knew in school, Mildred Grossman. Although they were totally opposite fromm each other, the protagonist compares them to Siamese twins. The very thing that makes them so alike is that they are so different from anyone the narrator has ever met, and that &quot;they would never change because they'd been given their character too soon&quot; (58). One is intraverted and practical; the other is extraverted and impractical.<br /> <br /> The narration shifts to a party on Christmas Eve in Holly's apartment. The narrator is asked to come over and help trim the Christmas tree. Holly gives the narrator an expensive, antique bird cage for Christmas; he gives Holly a St. Christopher's medal from Tiffany's. The cost of the bird cage is three hundred and fifty dollars. Holly does not seem bothered by the cost, she makes just a few extra trips to the powder room so she could afford the bird cage.<br /> <br /> In February, Holly, Rusty, Mag, and José take a trip to the tropics. In Key West, Mag becomes severely sunburned, and Rusty is injured in a fight with some sailors. Both are hospitalized, so José and Holly travel to Havana. Mag becomes suspicious that José and Holly are sleeping together, so Holly tells Mag that she is a lesbian. Holly recounts these events as the protagonist gives her a back massage. Mag goes out and buys an army cot to sleep on so she will not have to share the bed with a lesbian. Holly informs the narrator that she has given O.J. Berman a copy of the narrator's story without his consent. Bernam publishes the story in the University Review. They become engaged in an argument, the protagonist is tempted to hit Holly, and Holly throws the narrator out of her apartment: &quot;It should take you about four seconds to walk from here to the door. I'll give you two&quot; (63).<br /> <br /> == Notes ==<br /> *'''hither''' (55) - to this place (seldom used except in poetry and legal papers).<br /> *'''yonning''' (55) - distant but in sight. From [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/yon yon].<br /> *'''overhaul''' (58) - a major repair or [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/revision revision].<br /> *'''Rockefeller Plaza''' (59) - A place where people gathered to celebrate the biggest, brightest Christmas tree of all. Celebrated since [http://wnbc.com/christmastree/1775354/detail.html=1933 1933]. Veiw the Rockefeller Plaza[[Image:[http://mijnposter.nl/thumbs/487/011s.jpeg]]]http://www.ccfagreetingcards.com/_images/HG_Rockefeller_Center_Christmas_Tree.jpg.<br /> *'''tinsel''' (59) - a thread, strip, or sheet of metal, paper, or plastic used to produce a glittering and sparkling appearance in fabrics, yarns, or decorations.[http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/tinsel].<br /> *'''baubles''' (59) - Christmas ornaments that are decorations (usually made of glass, metal, wood or ceramics) that are used to [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/festoon festoon] a Christmas tree.<br /> *[[Image:PW242.jpg|thumb|St. Christopher's Medal]]'''St. Christopher's medal''' (59) - a small medallion depicting the patron saint against [http://www.catholic-forum.com/saintS/pst00432.htm lightning]; against [http://www.catholic-forum.com/saintS/pst00555.htm pestilence]; [http://www.catholic-forum.com/saintS/pst00032.htm archers]; [http://www.catholic-forum.com/saintS/pst00050.htm automobile drivers]; [http://www.catholic-forum.com/saintS/pst00050.htm automobilists]; [http://www.catholic-forum.com/saintS/pst00051.htm bachelors], etc.<br /> *'''Woolworth''' (59) - one of the first [http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery?method=4&amp;dsid=2222&amp;dekey=Five+and+dime&amp;curtab=2222_1&amp;linktext=five-and-ten-cent%20stores five and dime] stores. Woolworth's is now known as Footlocker.<br /> <br /> ==Commentary==<br /> Self-deception is not one of Holly's failings, although she is an extraordinary liar. It doesn't trouble her to beguile others when it suits her purpose. She constructs a world around her to make things as pleasant as she can, inventing stories when the truth is too painful to discuss. Berman, who calls Holly a &quot;phony&quot;, modifies it to &quot;a ''real'' phony,&quot; because, he claims, &quot;she believes all this crap she believes.&quot; The narrator doesn't think of Holly that way (Garson 82).<br /> <br /> Since her moral code differs from that of society, Holly has no qualms about lying. To protect herself or to keep people from getting too close, or from knowing too much about her, she fabricates. She fictionalizes when reality is grim and threatens to bring on the &quot;blues&quot; (sadness), or the &quot;mean reds&quot; (fear/angst). Unwilling to share her memories of her early life. Holly invents a beautiful fantasy childhood for herself when the narrator tells her of his own unhappy boyhood.<br /> Holly also lies when a situation is not to her liking. At the first party, when an acquaintance, Mag Wildwood, barges in and draws the attention of all the men, Holly retaliates by insinuating that Mag has a terrible disease. Another time, to keep Mag from learning that she has slept with Mag's lover, Jose, Holly breezily pretends she is a lesbian, partly to deceive Mag and partly for the humor of the deception (Garson 82, 83).<br /> <br /> Holly's moral code and the fact that she is a real phony are exemplified in this section when she goes to the library and reads through books about Brazil and South America. Holly is trying to morph herself into a person from South America and this is our first clue that Holly is planning on going back to Brazil with Jose (whether Jose knows this or not is not presented to us). I believe this is what O.J. means by a &quot;real phony&quot;. She is definitely not from Brazil, or even South America, but by the time she makes it there, she will be able to act like she has lived there all her life, as shown to us by the way she could change from a farm-raised girl to a Hollywood actress to a New York [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeloader freeloader].<br /> <br /> ==Study Questions==<br /> # Why does Holly pretend to be a lesbian?<br /> # What makes Holly an extraordinary liar?<br /> # Why is Holly unwilling to share memories from her childhood?<br /> # Is Mag Wildwood really a lesbian?<br /> # Do the sailors beat up Rusty Trawler because he is a homosexual?<br /> # Does the narrator believe Holly is a prostitute?<br /> # Why does Holly surround herself with gay men?<br /> # Why is Holly only able to show emotion when her sunglasses are off?<br /> # Because the narrator makes numerous comments on Jose attributes, is he attracted to him?<br /> <br /> ==Works Cited==<br /> *Garson, Helen S. ''Truman Capote''. New York: Ungar, 1980. <br /> <br /> *Pugh, Tison. &quot;Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's.&quot; Rev. of Breakfast At Tiffany's, by Truman Capote. Explicator 61.1: 51. 19 Mar. 2006 &lt;http://www.explicator.com&gt;. <br /> <br /> *[Wikipedia.org/http://en.wikipedia.org]<br /> <br /> [[Breakfast at Tiffany's Section 4|Section four]] | [[Breakfast at Tiffany's]] | [[Breakfast at Tiffany's Section 6|Section six]]<br /> <br /> <br /> [[Category:Literature]]</div>

RNickels https://litwiki.org/index.php?title=Breakfast_at_Tiffany%27s_Section_5&diff=6311 2006-03-22T00:47:21Z

<p>RNickels: </p> <hr /> <div>== Summary ==<br /> The protagonist begins working a nine to five job and, as a result, sees less of Holly Golightly (the image of Holly Golightly played by Audrey Hepburn in Hollywood's version of Breakfast at Tiffany's[http://images.forbes.com/images/2001/10/10/pow_400x475.jpg]). One day, he sees Holly walking into a library and lets his curiosity get the best of him. He observes her without her knowledge, and when she leaves he examines the books on her table. He discovers that she is reading up on Brazil. Watching her read, the narrator compares her to a girl he knew in school, Mildred Grossman. Although they were totally opposite fromm each other, the protagonist compares them to Siamese twins. The very thing that makes them so alike is that they are so different from anyone the narrator has ever met, and that &quot;they would never change because they'd been given their character too soon&quot; (58). One is intraverted and practical; the other is extraverted and impractical.<br /> <br /> The narration shifts to a party on Christmas Eve in Holly's apartment. The narrator is asked to come over and help trim the Christmas tree. Holly gives the narrator an expensive, antique bird cage for Christmas; he gives Holly a St. Christopher's medal from Tiffany's. The cost of the bird cage is three hundred and fifty dollars. Holly does not seem bothered by the cost, she makes just a few extra trips to the powder room so she could afford the bird cage.<br /> <br /> In February, Holly, Rusty, Mag, and José take a trip to the tropics. In Key West, Mag becomes severely sunburned, and Rusty is injured in a fight with some sailors. Both are hospitalized, so José and Holly travel to Havana. Mag becomes suspicious that José and Holly are sleeping together, so Holly tells Mag that she is a lesbian. Holly recounts these events as the protagonist gives her a back massage. Mag goes out and buys an army cot to sleep on so she will not have to share the bed with a lesbian. Holly informs the narrator that she has given O.J. Berman a copy of the narrator's story without his consent. Bernam publishes the story in the University Review. They become engaged in an argument, the protagonist is tempted to hit Holly, and Holly throws the narrator out of her apartment: &quot;It should take you about four seconds to walk from here to the door. I'll give you two&quot; (63).<br /> <br /> == Notes ==<br /> *'''hither''' (55) - to this place (seldom used except in poetry and legal papers).<br /> *'''yonning''' (55) - distant but in sight. From [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/yon yon].<br /> *'''overhaul''' (58) - a major repair or [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/revision revision].<br /> *'''Rockefeller Plaza''' (59) - A place where people gathered to celebrate the biggest, brightest Christmas tree of all. Celebrated since [http://wnbc.com/christmastree/1775354/detail.html=1933 1933]. Veiw the Rockefeller Plaza[[Image:[http://mijnposter.nl/thumbs/487/011s.jpeg]]]http://www.ccfagreetingcards.com/_images/HG_Rockefeller_Center_Christmas_Tree.jpg.<br /> *'''tinsel''' (59) - a thread, strip, or sheet of metal, paper, or plastic used to produce a glittering and sparkling appearance in fabrics, yarns, or decorations.[http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/tinsel].<br /> *'''baubles''' (59) - Christmas ornaments that are decorations (usually made of glass, metal, wood or ceramics) that are used to [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/festoon festoon] a Christmas tree.<br /> *[[Image:PW242.jpg|thumb|St. Christopher's Medal]]'''St. Christopher's medal''' (59) - a small medallion depicting the patron saint against [http://www.catholic-forum.com/saintS/pst00432.htm lightning]; against [http://www.catholic-forum.com/saintS/pst00555.htm pestilence]; [http://www.catholic-forum.com/saintS/pst00032.htm archers]; [http://www.catholic-forum.com/saintS/pst00050.htm automobile drivers]; [http://www.catholic-forum.com/saintS/pst00050.htm automobilists]; [http://www.catholic-forum.com/saintS/pst00051.htm bachelors], etc.<br /> *'''Woolworth''' (59) - one of the first [http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery?method=4&amp;dsid=2222&amp;dekey=Five+and+dime&amp;curtab=2222_1&amp;linktext=five-and-ten-cent%20stores five and dime] stores. Woolworth's is now known as Footlocker.<br /> <br /> ==Commentary==<br /> Self-deception is not one of Holly's failings, although she is an extraordinary liar. It doesn't trouble her to beguile others when it suits her purpose. She constructs a world around her to make things as pleasant as she can, inventing stories when the truth is too painful to discuss. Berman, who calls Holly a &quot;phony&quot;, modifies it to &quot;a ''real'' phony,&quot; because, he claims, &quot;she believes all this crap she believes.&quot; The narrator doesn't think of Holly that way (Garson 82).<br /> <br /> Since her moral code differs from that of society, Holly has no qualms about lying. To protect herself or to keep people from getting too close, or from knowing too much about her, she fabricates. She fictionalizes when reality is grim and threatens to bring on the &quot;blues&quot; (sadness), or the &quot;mean reds&quot; (fear/angst). Unwilling to share her memories of her early life. Holly invents a beautiful fantasy childhood for herself when the narrator tells her of his own unhappy boyhood.<br /> Holly also lies when a situation is not to her liking. At the first party, when an acquaintance, Mag Wildwood, barges in and draws the attention of all the men, Holly retaliates by insinuating that Mag has a terrible disease. Another time, to keep Mag from learning that she has slept with Mag's lover, Jose, Holly breezily pretends she is a lesbian, partly to deceive Mag and partly for the humor of the deception (Garson 82, 83).<br /> <br /> Holly's moral code and the fact that she is a real phony are exemplified in this section when she goes to the library and reads through books about Brazil and South America. Holly is trying to morph herself into a person from South America and this is our first clue that Holly is planning on going back to Brazil with Jose (whether Jose knows this or not is not presented to us). I believe this is what O.J. means by a &quot;real phony&quot;. She is definitely not from Brazil, or even South America, but by the time she makes it there, she will be able to act like she has lived there all her life, as shown to us by the way she could change from a farm-raised girl to a Hollywood actress to a New York (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeloader freeloader).<br /> <br /> ==Study Questions==<br /> # Why does Holly pretend to be a lesbian?<br /> # What makes Holly an extraordinary liar?<br /> # Why is Holly unwilling to share memories from her childhood?<br /> # Is Mag Wildwood really a lesbian?<br /> # Do the sailors beat up Rusty Trawler because he is a homosexual?<br /> # Does the narrator believe Holly is a prostitute?<br /> # Why does Holly surround herself with gay men?<br /> # Why is Holly only able to show emotion when her sunglasses are off?<br /> # Because the narrator makes numerous comments on Jose attributes, is he attracted to him?<br /> <br /> ==Works Cited==<br /> *Garson, Helen S. ''Truman Capote''. New York: Ungar, 1980. <br /> <br /> *Pugh, Tison. &quot;Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's.&quot; Rev. of Breakfast At Tiffany's, by Truman Capote. Explicator 61.1: 51. 19 Mar. 2006 &lt;http://www.explicator.com&gt;. <br /> <br /> *[Wikipedia.org/http://en.wikipedia.org]<br /> <br /> [[Breakfast at Tiffany's Section 4|Section four]] | [[Breakfast at Tiffany's]] | [[Breakfast at Tiffany's Section 6|Section six]]<br /> <br /> <br /> [[Category:Literature]]</div>

RNickels https://litwiki.org/index.php?title=Breakfast_at_Tiffany%27s_Section_5&diff=6238 2006-03-21T17:11:43Z

<p>RNickels: </p> <hr /> <div>== Summary ==<br /> The protagonist begins working a nine to five job and, as a result, sees less of Holly Golightly. One day, he sees Holly walking into a library and lets his curiosity get the best of him. He observes her without her knowledge, and when she leaves he examines the books on her table. He discovers that she is reading up on Brazil. Watching her read, the narrator compares her to a girl he knew in school, Mildred Grossman. Although they were totally opposite fromm each other, the protagonist compares them to Siamese twins. The very thing that makes them so alike is that they are so different from anyone the narrator has ever met, and that &quot;they would never change because they'd been given their character too soon&quot; (58). One is intraverted and practical; the other is extraverted and impractical.<br /> <br /> The narration shifts to a party on Christmas Eve in Holly's apartment. The narrator is asked to come over and help trim the Christmas tree. Holly gives the narrator an expensive, antique bird cage for Christmas; he gives Holly a St. Christopher's medal from Tiffany's. The cost of the bird cage is three hundred and fifty dollars. Holly does not seem bothered by the cost, she makes just a few extra trips to the powder room so she could afford the bird cage.<br /> <br /> In February, Holly, Rusty, Mag, and José take a trip to the tropics. In Key West, Mag becomes severely sunburned, and Rusty is injured in a fight with some sailors. Both are hospitalized, so José and Holly travel to Havana. Mag becomes suspicious that José and Holly are sleeping together, so Holly tells Mag that she is a lesbian. Holly recounts these events as the protagonist gives her a back massage. Mag goes out and buys an army cot to sleep on so she will not have to share the bed with a lesbian. Holly informs the narrator that she has given O.J. Berman a copy of the narrator's story without his consent. Bernam publishes the story in the University Review. They become engaged in an argument, the protagonist is tempted to hit Holly, and Holly throws the narrator out of her apartment: &quot;It should take you about four seconds to walk from here to the door. I'll give you two&quot; (63).<br /> <br /> == Notes ==<br /> *'''hither''' (55) - to this place (seldom used except in poetry and legal papers).<br /> *'''yonning''' (55) - distant but in sight. From [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/yon yon].<br /> *'''overhaul''' (58) - a major repair or [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/revision revision].<br /> *'''Rockefeller Plaza''' (59) - A place where people gathered to celebrate the biggest, brightest Christmas tree of all. Celebrated since [http://wnbc.com/christmastree/1775354/detail.html=1933 1933]. Veiw the Rockefeller Plaza[[Image:[http://mijnposter.nl/thumbs/487/011s.jpeg]]]http://www.ccfagreetingcards.com/_images/HG_Rockefeller_Center_Christmas_Tree.jpg.<br /> *'''tinsel''' (59) - a thread, strip, or sheet of metal, paper, or plastic used to produce a glittering and sparkling appearance in fabrics, yarns, or decorations.[http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/tinsel].<br /> *'''baubles''' (59) - Christmas ornaments that are decorations (usually made of glass, metal, wood or ceramics) that are used to [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/festoon festoon] a Christmas tree.<br /> *[[Image:PW242.jpg|thumb|St. Christopher's Medal]]'''St. Christopher's medal''' (59) - a small medallion depicting the patron saint against [http://www.catholic-forum.com/saintS/pst00432.htm lightning]; against [http://www.catholic-forum.com/saintS/pst00555.htm pestilence]; [http://www.catholic-forum.com/saintS/pst00032.htm archers]; [http://www.catholic-forum.com/saintS/pst00050.htm automobile drivers]; [http://www.catholic-forum.com/saintS/pst00050.htm automobilists]; [http://www.catholic-forum.com/saintS/pst00051.htm bachelors], etc.<br /> *'''Woolworth''' (59) - one of the first [http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery?method=4&amp;dsid=2222&amp;dekey=Five+and+dime&amp;curtab=2222_1&amp;linktext=five-and-ten-cent%20stores five and dime] stores. Woolworth's is now known as Footlocker.<br /> <br /> ==Commentary==<br /> Self-deception is not one of Holly's failings, although she is an extraordinary liar. It doesn't trouble her to beguile others when it suits her purpose. She constructs a world around her to make things as pleasant as she can, inventing stories when the truth is too painful to discuss. Berman, who calls Holly a &quot;phony&quot;, modifies it to &quot;a ''real'' phony,&quot; because, he claims, &quot;she believes all this crap she believes.&quot; The narrator doesn't think of Holly that way (Garson 82).<br /> <br /> Since her moral code differs from that of society, Holly has no qualms about lying. To protect herself or to keep people from getting too close, or from knowing too much about her, she fabricates. She fictionalizes when reality is grim and threatens to bring on the &quot;blues&quot; (sadness), or the &quot;mean reds&quot; (fear/angst). Unwilling to share her memories of her early life. Holly invents a beautiful fantasy childhood for herself when the narrator tells her of his own unhappy boyhood.<br /> Holly also lies when a situation is not to her liking. At a party, when an acquaintance, Mag Wildwood, barges in and draws the attention of all the men, Holly retaliates by insinuating that Mag has a terrible social disease. Another time, to keep Mag from learning that she has slept with Mag's lover, Jose, Holly breezily pretends she is a lesbian, partly to deceive Mag and partly for the humor of the deception (Garson 82,83).<br /> <br /> Holly's moral code and the fact that she is a real phony are exemplified in this section when she goes to the library and reads through books about Brazil and South America. Holly is trying to morph herself into a person from South America and this is our first clue that Holly is planning on going back to Brazil with Jose (whether Jose knows this or not isn't presented to us). I believe this is what O.J. means by a &quot;real phony&quot;. She is deffinetly not from Brazil, or even South America, but by the time she makes it there, she will be able to act like she has lived there all her life, as shown to us by the way she could morph from a farm-raised girl to a Hollywood actress to a New York freeloader.<br /> <br /> ==Study Questions==<br /> # Why does Holly pretend to be a lesbian?<br /> # What makes Holly an extraordinary liar?<br /> # Why is Holly unwilling to share memories from her childhood?<br /> # Is Mag Wildwood really a lesbian?<br /> # Do the sailors beat up Rusty Trawler because he is a homosexual?<br /> # Does the narrator believe Holly is a prostitute?<br /> # Why does Holly surround herself with gay men?<br /> # Why is Holly only able to show emotion when her sunglasses are off?<br /> # Because the narrator makes numerous comments on Jose attributes, is he attracted to him?<br /> <br /> ==Works Cited==<br /> Garson, Helen S. ''Truman Capote''. New York: Ungar, 1980. <br /> <br /> Pugh, Tison. &quot;Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's.&quot; Rev. of Breakfast At Tiffany's, by Truman Capote. Explicator 61.1: 51. 19 Mar. 2006 &lt;http://www.explicator.com&gt;. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> [[Breakfast at Tiffany's 4|Section four]] | [[Breakfast at Tiffany's]] | [[Breakfast at Tiffany's 6|Section six]]<br /> <br /> [[Category:Literature]]</div>

RNickels https://litwiki.org/index.php?title=Breakfast_at_Tiffany%27s_Section_5&diff=6237 2006-03-21T17:11:20Z

<p>RNickels: </p> <hr /> <div>== Summary ==<br /> The protagonist begins working a nine to five job and, as a result, sees less of Holly Golightly. One day, he sees Holly walking into a library and lets his curiosity get the best of him. He observes her without her knowledge, and when she leaves he examines the books on her table. He discovers that she is reading up on Brazil. Watching her read, the narrator compares her to a girl he knew in school, Mildred Grossman. Although they were totally opposite fromm each other, the protagonist compares them to Siamese twins. The very thing that makes them so alike is that they are so different from anyone the narrator has ever met, and that &quot;they would never change because they'd been given their character too soon&quot; (58). One is intraverted and practical; the other is extraverted and impractical.<br /> <br /> The narration shifts to a party on Christmas Eve in Holly's apartment. The narrator is asked to come over and help trim the Christmas tree. Holly gives the narrator an expensive, antique bird cage for Christmas; he gives Holly a St. Christopher's medal from Tiffany's. The cost of the bird cage is three hundred and fifty dollars. Holly does not seem bothered by the cost, she makes just a few extra trips to the powder room so she could afford the bird cage.<br /> <br /> In February, Holly, Rusty, Mag, and José take a trip to the tropics. In Key West, Mag becomes severely sunburned, and Rusty is injured in a fight with some sailors. Both are hospitalized, so José and Holly travel to Havana. Mag becomes suspicious that José and Holly are sleeping together, so Holly tells Mag that she is a lesbian. Holly recounts these events as the protagonist gives her a back massage. Mag goes out and buys an army cot to sleep on so she will not have to share the bed with a lesbian. Holly informs the narrator that she has given O.J. Berman a copy of the narrator's story without his consent. Bernam publishes the story in the University Review. They become engaged in an argument, the protagonist is tempted to hit Holly, and Holly throws the narrator out of her apartment: &quot;It should take you about four seconds to walk from here to the door. I'll give you two&quot; (63).<br /> <br /> == Notes ==<br /> *'''hither''' (55) - to this place (seldom used except in poetry and legal papers).<br /> *'''yonning''' (55) - distant but in sight. From [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/yon yon].<br /> *'''overhaul''' (58) - a major repair or [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/revision revision].<br /> *'''Rockefeller Plaza''' (59) - A place where people gathered to celebrate the biggest, brightest Christmas tree of all. Celebrated since [http://wnbc.com/christmastree/1775354/detail.html=1933 1933]. Veiw the Rockefeller Plaza[[Image:[http://mijnposter.nl/thumbs/487/011s.jpeg]]]http://www.ccfagreetingcards.com/_images/HG_Rockefeller_Center_Christmas_Tree.jpg.<br /> *'''tinsel''' (59) - a thread, strip, or sheet of metal, paper, or plastic used to produce a glittering and sparkling appearance in fabrics, yarns, or decorations.[http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/tinsel].<br /> *'''baubles''' (59) - Christmas ornaments that are decorations (usually made of glass, metal, wood or ceramics) that are used to [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/festoon festoon] a Christmas tree.<br /> *[[Image:PW242.jpg|thumb|St. Christopher's Medal]]'''St. Christopher's medal''' (59) - a small medallion depicting the patron saint against [http://www.catholic-forum.com/saintS/pst00432.htm lightning]; against [http://www.catholic-forum.com/saintS/pst00555.htm pestilence]; [http://www.catholic-forum.com/saintS/pst00032.htm archers]; [http://www.catholic-forum.com/saintS/pst00050.htm automobile drivers]; [http://www.catholic-forum.com/saintS/pst00050.htm automobilists]; [http://www.catholic-forum.com/saintS/pst00051.htm bachelors], etc.<br /> *'''Woolworth''' (59) - one of the first [http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery?method=4&amp;dsid=2222&amp;dekey=Five+and+dime&amp;curtab=2222_1&amp;linktext=five-and-ten-cent%20stores five and dime] stores. Woolworht's is now known as Footlocker.<br /> <br /> ==Commentary==<br /> Self-deception is not one of Holly's failings, although she is an extraordinary liar. It doesn't trouble her to beguile others when it suits her purpose. She constructs a world around her to make things as pleasant as she can, inventing stories when the truth is too painful to discuss. Berman, who calls Holly a &quot;phony&quot;, modifies it to &quot;a ''real'' phony,&quot; because, he claims, &quot;she believes all this crap she believes.&quot; The narrator doesn't think of Holly that way (Garson 82).<br /> <br /> Since her moral code differs from that of society, Holly has no qualms about lying. To protect herself or to keep people from getting too close, or from knowing too much about her, she fabricates. She fictionalizes when reality is grim and threatens to bring on the &quot;blues&quot; (sadness), or the &quot;mean reds&quot; (fear/angst). Unwilling to share her memories of her early life. Holly invents a beautiful fantasy childhood for herself when the narrator tells her of his own unhappy boyhood.<br /> Holly also lies when a situation is not to her liking. At a party, when an acquaintance, Mag Wildwood, barges in and draws the attention of all the men, Holly retaliates by insinuating that Mag has a terrible social disease. Another time, to keep Mag from learning that she has slept with Mag's lover, Jose, Holly breezily pretends she is a lesbian, partly to deceive Mag and partly for the humor of the deception (Garson 82,83).<br /> <br /> Holly's moral code and the fact that she is a real phony are exemplified in this section when she goes to the library and reads through books about Brazil and South America. Holly is trying to morph herself into a person from South America and this is our first clue that Holly is planning on going back to Brazil with Jose (whether Jose knows this or not isn't presented to us). I believe this is what O.J. means by a &quot;real phony&quot;. She is deffinetly not from Brazil, or even South America, but by the time she makes it there, she will be able to act like she has lived there all her life, as shown to us by the way she could morph from a farm-raised girl to a Hollywood actress to a New York freeloader.<br /> <br /> ==Study Questions==<br /> # Why does Holly pretend to be a lesbian?<br /> # What makes Holly an extraordinary liar?<br /> # Why is Holly unwilling to share memories from her childhood?<br /> # Is Mag Wildwood really a lesbian?<br /> # Do the sailors beat up Rusty Trawler because he is a homosexual?<br /> # Does the narrator believe Holly is a prostitute?<br /> # Why does Holly surround herself with gay men?<br /> # Why is Holly only able to show emotion when her sunglasses are off?<br /> # Because the narrator makes numerous comments on Jose attributes, is he attracted to him?<br /> <br /> ==Works Cited==<br /> Garson, Helen S. ''Truman Capote''. New York: Ungar, 1980. <br /> <br /> Pugh, Tison. &quot;Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's.&quot; Rev. of Breakfast At Tiffany's, by Truman Capote. Explicator 61.1: 51. 19 Mar. 2006 &lt;http://www.explicator.com&gt;. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> [[Breakfast at Tiffany's 4|Section four]] | [[Breakfast at Tiffany's]] | [[Breakfast at Tiffany's 6|Section six]]<br /> <br /> [[Category:Literature]]</div>

RNickels https://litwiki.org/index.php?title=Breakfast_at_Tiffany%27s_Section_5&diff=6222 2006-03-21T16:54:31Z

<p>RNickels: </p> <hr /> <div>== Summary ==<br /> The protagonist begins working a nine to five job and, as a result, sees less of Holly Golightly. One day, he sees Holly walking into a library and lets his curiosity get the best of him. He observes her without her knowledge, and when she leaves he examines the books on her table. He discovers that she is reading up on Brazil. Watching her read, the narrator compares her to a girl he knew in school, Mildred Grossman. Although they were totally opposite fromm each other, the protagonist compares them to Siamese twins. The very thing that makes them so alike is that they are so different from anyone the narrator has ever met, and that &quot;they would never change because they'd been given their character too soon&quot; (58). One is intraverted and practical; the other is extraverted and impractical.<br /> <br /> The narration shifts to a party on Christmas Eve in Holly's apartment. The narrator is asked to come over and help trim the Christmas tree. Holly gives the narrator an expensive, antique bird cage for Christmas; he gives Holly a St. Christopher's medal from Tiffany's. The cost of the bird cage is three hundred and fifty dollars. Holly does not seem bothered by the cost, she makes just a few extra trips to the powder room so she could afford the bird cage.<br /> <br /> In February, Holly, Rusty, Mag, and José take a trip to the tropics. In Key West, Mag becomes severely sunburned, and Rusty is injured in a fight with some sailors. Both are hospitalized, so José and Holly travel to Havana. Mag becomes suspicious that José and Holly are sleeping together, so Holly tells Mag that she is a lesbian. Holly recounts these events as the protagonist gives her a back massage. Mag goes out and buys an army cot to sleep on so she will not have to share the bed with a lesbian. Holly informs the narrator that she has given O.J. Berman a copy of the narrator's story without his consent. Bernam publishes the story in the University Review. They become engaged in an argument, the protagonist is tempted to hit Holly, and Holly throws the narrator out of her apartment: &quot;It should take you about four seconds to walk from here to the door. I'll give you two&quot; (63).<br /> <br /> == Notes ==<br /> *'''hither''' (55) - to this place (seldom used except in poetry and legal papers).<br /> *'''yonning''' (55) - distant but in sight. From [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/yon yon].<br /> *'''overhaul''' (58) - a major repair or [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/revision revision].<br /> *'''Rockefeller Plaza''' (59) - A place where people gathered to celebrate the biggest, brightest Christmas tree of all. Celebrated since 1933.[http://wnbc.com/christmastree/1775354/detail.html]Veiw the Rockefeller Plaza[[Image:[http://mijnposter.nl/thumbs/487/011s.jpeg]]].<br /> *'''tinsel''' (59) - a thread, strip, or sheet of metal, paper, or plastic used to produce a glittering and sparkling appearance in fabrics, yarns, or decorations.[http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/tinsel].<br /> *'''baubles''' (59) - Christmas ornaments that are decorations (usually made of glass, metal, wood or ceramics) that are used to [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/festoon festoon] a Christmas tree.<br /> *[[Image:PW242.jpg|thumb|St. Christopher's Medal]]'''St. Christopher's medal''' (59) - a small medallion depicting the patron saint against [http://www.catholic-forum.com/saintS/pst00432.htm lightning]; against [http://www.catholic-forum.com/saintS/pst00555.htm pestilence]; [http://www.catholic-forum.com/saintS/pst00032.htm archers]; [http://www.catholic-forum.com/saintS/pst00050.htm automobile drivers]; [http://www.catholic-forum.com/saintS/pst00050.htm automobilists]; [http://www.catholic-forum.com/saintS/pst00051.htm bachelors], etc.<br /> <br /> ==Commentary==<br /> Self-deception is not one of Holly's failings, although she is an extraordinary liar. It doesn't trouble her to beguile others when it suits her purpose. She constructs a world around her to make things as pleasant as she can, inventing stories when the truth is too painful to discuss. Berman, who calls Holly a &quot;phony&quot;, modifies it to &quot;a ''real'' phony,&quot; because, he claims, &quot;she believes all this crap she believes.&quot; The narrator doesn't think of Holly that way (Garson 82).<br /> <br /> Since her moral code differs from that of society, Holly has no qualms about lying. To protect herself or to keep people from getting too close, or from knowing too much about her, she fabricates. She fictionalizes when reality is grim and threatens to bring on the &quot;blues&quot; (sadness), or the &quot;mean reds&quot; (fear/angst). Unwilling to share her memories of her early life. Holly invents a beautiful fantasy childhood for herself when the narrator tells her of his own unhappy boyhood.<br /> Holly also lies when a situation is not to her liking. At a party, when an acquaintance, Mag Wildwood, barges in and draws the attention of all the men, Holly retaliates by insinuating that Mag has a terrible social disease. Another time, to keep Mag from learning that she has slept with Mag's lover, Jose, Holly breezily pretends she is a lesbian, partly to deceive Mag and partly for the humor of the deception (Garson 82,83).<br /> <br /> Holly's moral code and the fact that she is a real phony are exemplified in this section when she goes to the library and reads through books about Brazil and South America. Holly is trying to morph herself into a person from South America and this is our first clue that Holly is planning on going back to Brazil with Jose (whether Jose knows this or not isn't presented to us). I believe this is what O.J. means by a &quot;real phony&quot;. She is deffinetly not from Brazil, or even South America, but by the time she makes it there, she will be able to act like she has lived there all her life, as shown to us by the way she could morph from a farm-raised girl to a Hollywood actress to a New York freeloader.<br /> <br /> ==Study Questions==<br /> # Why does Holly pretend to be a lesbian?<br /> # What makes Holly an extraordinary liar?<br /> # Why is Holly unwilling to share memories from her childhood?<br /> # Is Mag Wildwood really a lesbian?<br /> # Do the sailors beat up Rusty Trawler because he is a homosexual?<br /> # Does the narrator believe Holly is a prostitute?<br /> # Why does Holly surround herself with gay men?<br /> # Why is Holly only able to show emotion when her sunglasses are off?<br /> # Because the narrator makes numerous comments on Jose attributes, is he attracted to him?<br /> <br /> ==Works Cited==<br /> Garson, Helen S. ''Truman Capote''. New York: Ungar, 1980. <br /> <br /> Pugh, Tison. &quot;Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's.&quot; Rev. of Breakfast At Tiffany's, by Truman Capote. Explicator 61.1: 51. 19 Mar. 2006 &lt;http://www.explicator.com&gt;. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> [[Breakfast at Tiffany's 4|Section four]] | [[Breakfast at Tiffany's]] | [[Breakfast at Tiffany's 6|Section six]]<br /> <br /> [[Category:Literature]]</div>

RNickels https://litwiki.org/index.php?title=Breakfast_at_Tiffany%27s_Section_5&diff=6217 2006-03-21T16:51:57Z

<p>RNickels: </p> <hr /> <div>== Summary ==<br /> The protagonist begins working a nine to five job and, as a result, sees less of Holly Golightly. One day, he sees Holly walking into a library and lets his curiosity get the best of him. He observes her without her knowledge, and when she leaves he examines the books on her table. He discovers that she is reading up on Brazil. Watching her read, the narrator compares her to a girl he knew in school, Mildred Grossman. Although they were totally opposite fromm each other, the protagonist compares them to Siamese twins. The very thing that makes them so alike is that they are so different from anyone the narrator has ever met, and that &quot;they would never change because they'd been given their character too soon&quot; (58). One is intraverted and practical; the other is extraverted and impractical.<br /> <br /> The narration shifts to a party on Christmas Eve in Holly's apartment. The narrator is asked to come over and help trim the Christmas tree. Holly gives the narrator an expensive, antique bird cage for Christmas; he gives Holly a St. Christopher's medal from Tiffany's. The cost of the bird cage is three hundred and fifty dollars. Holly does not seem bothered by the cost, she makes just a few extra trips to the powder room so she could afford the bird cage.<br /> <br /> In February, Holly, Rusty, Mag, and José take a trip to the tropics. In Key West, Mag becomes severely sunburned, and Rusty is injured in a fight with some sailors. Both are hospitalized, so José and Holly travel to Havana. Mag becomes suspicious that José and Holly are sleeping together, so Holly tells Mag that she is a lesbian. Holly recounts these events as the protagonist gives her a back massage. Mag goes out and buys an army cot to sleep on so she will not have to share the bed with a lesbian. Holly informs the narrator that she has given O.J. Berman a copy of the narrator's story without his consent. Bernam publishes the story in the University Review. They become engaged in an argument, the protagonist is tempted to hit Holly, and Holly throws the narrator out of her apartment: &quot;It should take you about four seconds to walk from here to the door. I'll give you two&quot; (63).<br /> <br /> == Notes ==<br /> *'''hither''' (55) - to this place (seldom used except in poetry and legal papers).<br /> *'''yonning''' (55) - distant but in sight. From [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/yon yon].<br /> *'''overhaul''' (58) - a major repair or [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/revision revision].<br /> *'''Rockefeller Plaza''' (59) - A place where people gathered to celebrate the biggest, brightest Christmas tree of all. Celebrated since 1933.[http://wnbc.com/christmastree/1775354/detail.html]Veiw the Rockefeller Plaza[[Image:[http://www.artdecoworld.com/New%20York%20City%20076%20-%20medium%20-%2024042000.gif]]].<br /> *'''tinsel''' (59) - a thread, strip, or sheet of metal, paper, or plastic used to produce a glittering and sparkling appearance in fabrics, yarns, or decorations.[http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/tinsel].<br /> *'''baubles''' (59) - Christmas ornaments that are decorations (usually made of glass, metal, wood or ceramics) that are used to [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/festoon festoon] a Christmas tree.<br /> *[[Image:PW242.jpg|thumb|St. Christopher's Medal]]'''St. Christopher's medal''' (59) - a small medallion depicting the patron saint against [http://www.catholic-forum.com/saintS/pst00432.htm lightning]; against [http://www.catholic-forum.com/saintS/pst00555.htm pestilence]; [http://www.catholic-forum.com/saintS/pst00032.htm archers]; [http://www.catholic-forum.com/saintS/pst00050.htm automobile drivers]; [http://www.catholic-forum.com/saintS/pst00050.htm automobilists]; [http://www.catholic-forum.com/saintS/pst00051.htm bachelors], etc.<br /> <br /> ==Commentary==<br /> Self-deception is not one of Holly's failings, although she is an extraordinary liar. It doesn't trouble her to beguile others when it suits her purpose. She constructs a world around her to make things as pleasant as she can, inventing stories when the truth is too painful to discuss. Berman, who calls Holly a &quot;phony&quot;, modifies it to &quot;a ''real'' phony,&quot; because, he claims, &quot;she believes all this crap she believes.&quot; The narrator doesn't think of Holly that way (Garson 82).<br /> <br /> Since her moral code differs from that of society, Holly has no qualms about lying. To protect herself or to keep people from getting too close, or from knowing too much about her, she fabricates. She fictionalizes when reality is grim and threatens to bring on the &quot;mean blues&quot; (sadness), or the &quot;mean reds&quot; (fear). Unwilling to share her memories of her early life. Holly invents a beautiful fantasy childhood for herself when the narrator tells her of his own unhappy boyhood.<br /> Holly also lies when a situation is not to her liking. At a party, when an acquaintance, Mag Wildwood, barges in and draws the attention of all the men, Holly retaliates by insinuating that Mag has a terrible social disease. Another time, to keep Mag from learning that she has slept with Mag's lover, Jose, Holly breezily pretends she is a lesbian, partly to deceive Mag and partly for the humor of the deception (Garson 82,83).<br /> <br /> Holly's moral code and the fact that she is a real phony are exemplified in this section when she goes to the library and reads through books about Brazil and South America. Holly is trying to morph herself into a person from South America and this is our first clue that Holly is planning on going back to Brazil with Jose (whether Jose knows this or not isn't presented to us). I believe this is what O.J. means by a &quot;real phony&quot;. She is deffinetly not from Brazil, or even South America, but by the time she makes it there, she will be able to act like she has lived there all her life.<br /> <br /> ==Study Questions==<br /> # Why does Holly pretend to be a lesbian?<br /> # What makes Holly an extraordinary liar?<br /> # Why is Holly unwilling to share memories from her childhood?<br /> # Is Mag Wildwood really a lesbian?<br /> # Do the sailors beat up Rusty Trawler because he is a homosexual?<br /> # Does the narrator believe Holly is a prostitute?<br /> # Why does Holly surround herself with gay men?<br /> # Why is Holly only able to show emotion when her sunglasses are off?<br /> # Because the narrator makes numerous comments on Jose attributes, is he attracted to him?<br /> <br /> ==Works Cited==<br /> Garson, Helen S. ''Truman Capote''. New York: Ungar, 1980. <br /> <br /> Pugh, Tison. &quot;Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's.&quot; Rev. of Breakfast At Tiffany's, by Truman Capote. Explicator 61.1: 51. 19 Mar. 2006 &lt;http://www.explicator.com&gt;. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> [[Breakfast at Tiffany's 4|Section four]] | [[Breakfast at Tiffany's]] | [[Breakfast at Tiffany's 6|Section six]]<br /> <br /> [[Category:Literature]]</div>

RNickels https://litwiki.org/index.php?title=Breakfast_at_Tiffany%27s_Section_5&diff=6207 2006-03-21T16:24:46Z

<p>RNickels: </p> <hr /> <div>== Summary ==<br /> The protagonist begins working a nine to five job and, as a result, sees less of Holly Golightly. One day, he sees Holly walking into a library. He observes her without her knowledge, and then he examines the books on her table after she leaves. He discovers that she is reading up on Brazil. Watching her read, the narrator compares her to a girl he knew in school, Mildred. They were totally opposite each other, yet like Siamese twins. The very thing that makes them so alike is that they are so different from anyone the narrator has ever met, and that &quot;they would never change because they'd been given their character too soon&quot; (58). One is intraverted and practical; the other is extraverted and impractical.<br /> <br /> The narration shifts to a party on Christmas Eve in Holly's apartment. The narrator is asked to come over and help trim the Christmas tree. Holly gives the narrator an expensive, antique bird cage for Christmas; he gives Holly a St. Christopher's medal from Tiffany's. The cost of the bird cage is three hundred and fifty dollars. Holly is not excited about the cost, she makes just a few more trips to the powder room so she could afford the bird cage.<br /> <br /> In February, Holly, Rusty, Mag, and José take a trip to the tropics. In Key West, Mag becomes severely sunburned, and Rusty is injured in a fight with some sailors. Both are hospitalized, so José and Holly travel to Havana. Mag becomes suspicious that José and Holly are sleeping together, so Holly tells Mag that she is a lesbian. Holly recounts these events as the protagonist gives her a back massage. Mag goes out and buys an army cot to sleep on so she will not have to share the bed with a lesbian. Holly informs the narrator that she has given O.J. Berman a copy of the narrator's story without his consent. Bernam publishes the story in the University Review. They become engaged in an argument, the protagonist is tempted to hit Holly, and Holly throws the narrator out of her apartment: &quot;It should take you about four seconds to walk from here to the door. I'll give you two&quot; (63).<br /> <br /> == Notes ==<br /> *'''hither''' (55) - to this place (seldom used except in poetry and legal papers).<br /> *'''yonning''' (55) - distant but in sight. From [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/yon yon].<br /> *'''overhaul''' (58) - a major repair or [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/revision revision].<br /> *'''Rockefeller Plaza''' (59) - A place where people gathered to celebrate the biggest, brightest Christmas tree of all. Celebrated since 1933.[http://wnbc.com/christmastree/1775354/detail.html].<br /> *'''tinsel''' (59) - a thread, strip, or sheet of metal, paper, or plastic used to produce a glittering and sparkling appearance in fabrics, yarns, or decorations.[http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/tinsel].<br /> *'''baubles''' (59) - Christmas ornaments that are decorations (usually made of glass, metal, wood or ceramics) that are used to [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/festoon festoon] a Christmas tree.<br /> *[[Image:PW242.jpg|thumb|St. Christopher's Medal]]'''St. Christopher's medal''' (59) - a small medallion depicting the patron saint against [http://www.catholic-forum.com/saintS/pst00432.htm lightning]; against [http://www.catholic-forum.com/saintS/pst00555.htm pestilence]; [http://www.catholic-forum.com/saintS/pst00032.htm archers]; [http://www.catholic-forum.com/saintS/pst00050.htm automobile drivers]; [http://www.catholic-forum.com/saintS/pst00050.htm automobilists]; [http://www.catholic-forum.com/saintS/pst00051.htm bachelors], etc.<br /> <br /> ==Commentary==<br /> Self-deception is not one of Holly's failings, although she is an extraordinary liar. It doesn't trouble her to beguile others when it suits her purpose. She constructs a world around her to make things as pleasant as she can, inventing stories when the truth is too painful to discuss. Berman, who calls Holly a &quot;phony&quot;, modifies it to &quot;a ''real'' phony,&quot; because, he claims, &quot;she believes all this crap she believes.&quot; The narrator doesn't think of Holly that way (Garson 82).<br /> <br /> Since her moral code differs from that of society, Holly has no qualms about lying. To protect herself or to keep people form getting too close, or from knowing too much about her, she fabricates. She fictionalizes when reality is grim and threatens to bring on the &quot;mean blues&quot; (sadness), or the &quot;mean reds&quot; (fear). Unwilling to share her memories of her early life. Holly invents a beautiful fantasy childhood for herself when the narrator tells her of his own unhappy boyhood.<br /> Holly also lies when a situation is not to her liking. At a party, when an acquaintance, Mag Wildwood, barges in and draws the attention of all the men, Holly retaliates by insinuating that Mag has a terrible social disease. Another time, to keep Mag from learning that she has slept with Mag's lover, Jose', Holly breezily pretends she is a lesbian, partly to deceive Mag and partly for the humor of the deception (Garson 82,83).<br /> <br /> ==Study Questions==<br /> # Why does Holly pretend to be a lesbian?<br /> # What makes Holly an extraordinary liar?<br /> # Why is Holly unwilling to share memories from her childhood?<br /> # Is Mag Wildwood really a lesbian?<br /> # Do the sailors beat up Rusty Trawler because he is a homosexual?<br /> # Does the narrator believe Holly is a prostitute?<br /> # Why does Holly surround herself with gay men?<br /> # Why is Holly only able to show emotion when her sunglasses are off?<br /> # Because the narrator makes numerous comments on Jose attributes, is he attracted to him?<br /> <br /> ==Works Cited==<br /> Garson, Helen S. ''Truman Capote''. New York: Ungar, 1980. 82,83.<br /> <br /> Pugh, Tison. &quot;Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's.&quot; Rev. of Breakfast At Tiffany's, by Truman Capote. Explicator 61.1: 51. 19 Mar. 2006 &lt;http://www.explicator.com&gt;. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> [[Breakfast at Tiffany's 4|Section four]] | [[Breakfast at Tiffany's]] | [[Breakfast at Tiffany's 6|Section six]]<br /> <br /> [[Category:Literature]]</div>

RNickels https://litwiki.org/index.php?title=Breakfast_at_Tiffany%27s_Section_5&diff=6196 2006-03-21T16:24:01Z

<p>RNickels: </p> <hr /> <div>== Summary ==<br /> The protagonist begins working a nine to five job and, as a result, sees less of Holly Golightly. One day, he sees Holly walking into a library. He observes her without her knowledge, and then he examines the books on her table after she leaves. He discovers that she is reading up on Brazil. Watching her read, the narrator compares her to a girl he knew in school, Mildred. They were totally opposite each other, yet like Siamese twins. The very thing that makes them so alike is that they are so different from anyone the narrator has ever met, and that &quot;they would never change because they'd been given their character too soon&quot; (58). One is intraverted and practical; the other is extraverted and impractical.<br /> <br /> The narration shifts to a party on Christmas Eve in Holly's apartment. The narrator is asked to come over and help trim the Christmas tree. Holly gives the narrator an expensive, antique bird cage for Christmas; he gives Holly a St. Christopher's medal from Tiffany's. The cost of the bird cage is three hundred and fifty dollars. Holly is not excited about the cost, she makes just a few more trips to the powder room so she could afford the bird cage.<br /> <br /> In February, Holly, Rusty, Mag, and José take a trip to the tropics. In Key West, Mag becomes severely sunburned, and Rusty is injured in a fight with some sailors. Both are hospitalized, so José and Holly travel to Havana. Mag becomes suspicious that José and Holly are sleeping together, so Holly tells Mag that she is a lesbian. Holly recounts these events as the protagonist gives her a back massage. Mag goes out and buys an army cot to sleep on so she will not have to share the bed with a lesbian. Holly informs the narrator that she has given O.J. Berman a copy of the narrator's story without his consent. Bernam publishes the story in the University Review. They become engaged in an argument, the protagonist is tempted to hit Holly, and Holly throws the narrator out of her apartment: &quot;It should take you about four seconds to walk from here to the door. I'll give you two&quot; (63).<br /> <br /> == Notes ==<br /> *'''hither''' (55) - to this place (seldom used except in poetry and legal papers).<br /> *'''yonning''' (55) - distant but in sight. From [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/yon yon].<br /> *'''overhaul''' (58) - a major repair or [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/revision revision].<br /> *'''Rockefeller Plaza''' (59) - A place where people gathered to celebrate the biggest, brightest Christmas tree of all. Celebrated since 1933.[http://wnbc.com/christmastree/1775354/detail.html].<br /> *'''tinsel''' (59) - a thread, strip, or sheet of metal, paper, or plastic used to produce a glittering and sparkling appearance in fabrics, yarns, or decorations.[http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/tinsel].<br /> *'''baubles''' (59) - Christmas ornaments that are decorations (usually made of glass, metal, wood or ceramics) that are used to [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/festoon festoon] a Christmas tree.<br /> *[[Image:PW242.jpg|thumb|St. Christopher's Medal]]'''St. Christopher's medal''' (59) - a small medallion depicting the patron saint against [http://www.catholic-forum.com/saintS/pst00432.htm lightning]; against [http://www.catholic-forum.com/saintS/pst00555.htm pestilence]; [http://www.catholic-forum.com/saintS/pst00032.htm archers]; [http://www.catholic-forum.com/saintS/pst00050.htm automobile drivers]; [http://www.catholic-forum.com/saintS/pst00050.htm automobilists]; [http://www.catholic-forum.com/saintS/pst00051.htm bachelors], etc.<br /> <br /> ==Commentary==<br /> Self-deception is not one of Holly's failings, although she is an extraordinary liar. It doesn't trouble her to beguile others when it suits her purpose. She constructs a world around her to make things as pleasant as she can, inventing stories when the truth is too painful to discuss. Berman, who calls Holly a &quot;phony&quot;, modifies it to &quot;a ''real'' phony,&quot; because, he claims, &quot;she believes all this crap she believes.&quot; The narrator doesn't think of Holly that way (Garson 82).<br /> <br /> Since her moral code differs from that of society, Holly has no qualms about lying. To protect herself or to keep people form getting too close, or from knowing too much about her, she fabricates. She fictionalizes when reality is grim and threatens to bring on the &quot;mean blues&quot; (sadness), or the &quot;mean reds&quot; (fear). Unwilling to share her memories of her early life. Holly invents a beautiful fantasy childhood for herself when the narrator tells her of his own unhappy boyhood.<br /> Holly also lies when a situation is not to her liking. At a party, when an acquaintance, Mag Wildwood, barges in and draws the attention of all the men, Holly retaliates by insinuating that Mag has a terrible social disease. Another time, to keep Mag from learning that she has slept with Mag's lover, Jose', Holly breezily pretends she is a lesbian, partly to deceive Mag and partly for the humor of the deception (Garson 82,83).<br /> <br /> ==Study Questions==<br /> # Why does Holly pretend to be a lesbian?<br /> <br /> # What makes Holly an extraordinary liar?<br /> <br /> # Why is Holly unwilling to share memories from her childhood?<br /> <br /> # Is Mag Wildwood really a lesbian?<br /> <br /> # Do the sailors beat up Rusty Trawler because he is a homosexual?<br /> <br /> # Does the narrator believe Holly is a prostitute?<br /> <br /> # Why does Holly surround herself with gay men?<br /> <br /> # Why is Holly only able to show emotion when her sunglasses are off?<br /> <br /> # Because the narrator makes numerous comments on Jose attributes, is he attracted to him?<br /> <br /> ==Works Cited==<br /> Garson, Helen S. ''Truman Capote''. New York: Ungar, 1980. 82,83.<br /> <br /> Pugh, Tison. &quot;Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's.&quot; Rev. of Breakfast At Tiffany's, by Truman Capote. Explicator 61.1: 51. 19 Mar. 2006 &lt;http://www.explicator.com&gt;. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> [[Breakfast at Tiffany's 4|Section four]] | [[Breakfast at Tiffany's]] | [[Breakfast at Tiffany's 6|Section six]]<br /> <br /> [[Category:Literature]]</div>

RNickels https://litwiki.org/index.php?title=Breakfast_at_Tiffany%27s_Section_5&diff=6195 2006-03-21T16:23:37Z

<p>RNickels: </p> <hr /> <div>== Summary ==<br /> The protagonist begins working a nine to five job and, as a result, sees less of Holly Golightly. One day, he sees Holly walking into a library. He observes her without her knowledge, and then he examines the books on her table after she leaves. He discovers that she is reading up on Brazil. Watching her read, the narrator compares her to a girl he knew in school, Mildred. They were totally opposite each other, yet like Siamese twins. The very thing that makes them so alike is that they are so different from anyone the narrator has ever met, and that &quot;they would never change because they'd been given their character too soon&quot; (58). One is intraverted and practical; the other is extraverted and impractical.<br /> <br /> The narration shifts to a party on Christmas Eve in Holly's apartment. The narrator is asked to come over and help trim the Christmas tree. Holly gives the narrator an expensive, antique bird cage for Christmas; he gives Holly a St. Christopher's medal from Tiffany's. The cost of the bird cage is three hundred and fifty dollars. Holly is not excited about the cost, she makes just a few more trips to the powder room so she could afford the bird cage.<br /> <br /> In February, Holly, Rusty, Mag, and José take a trip to the tropics. In Key West, Mag becomes severely sunburned, and Rusty is injured in a fight with some sailors. Both are hospitalized, so José and Holly travel to Havana. Mag becomes suspicious that José and Holly are sleeping together, so Holly tells Mag that she is a lesbian. Holly recounts these events as the protagonist gives her a back massage. Mag goes out and buys an army cot to sleep on so she will not have to share the bed with a lesbian. Holly informs the narrator that she has given O.J. Berman a copy of the narrator's story without his consent. Bernam publishes the story in the University Review. They become engaged in an argument, the protagonist is tempted to hit Holly, and Holly throws the narrator out of her apartment: &quot;It should take you about four seconds to walk from here to the door. I'll give you two&quot; (63).<br /> <br /> == Notes ==<br /> #'''hither''' (55) - to this place (seldom used except in poetry and legal papers).<br /> #'''yonning''' (55) - distant but in sight. From [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/yon yon].<br /> #'''overhaul''' (58) - a major repair or [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/revision revision].<br /> #'''Rockefeller Plaza''' (59) - A place where people gathered to celebrate the biggest, brightest Christmas tree of all. Celebrated since 1933.[http://wnbc.com/christmastree/1775354/detail.html].<br /> #'''tinsel''' (59) - a thread, strip, or sheet of metal, paper, or plastic used to produce a glittering and sparkling appearance in fabrics, yarns, or decorations.[http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/tinsel].<br /> #'''baubles''' (59) - Christmas ornaments that are decorations (usually made of glass, metal, wood or ceramics) that are used to [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/festoon festoon] a Christmas tree.<br /> #[[Image:PW242.jpg|thumb|St. Christopher's Medal]]'''St. Christopher's medal''' (59) - a small medallion depicting the patron saint against [http://www.catholic-forum.com/saintS/pst00432.htm lightning]; against [http://www.catholic-forum.com/saintS/pst00555.htm pestilence]; [http://www.catholic-forum.com/saintS/pst00032.htm archers]; [http://www.catholic-forum.com/saintS/pst00050.htm automobile drivers]; [http://www.catholic-forum.com/saintS/pst00050.htm automobilists]; [http://www.catholic-forum.com/saintS/pst00051.htm bachelors], etc.<br /> <br /> ==Commentary==<br /> Self-deception is not one of Holly's failings, although she is an extraordinary liar. It doesn't trouble her to beguile others when it suits her purpose. She constructs a world around her to make things as pleasant as she can, inventing stories when the truth is too painful to discuss. Berman, who calls Holly a &quot;phony&quot;, modifies it to &quot;a ''real'' phony,&quot; because, he claims, &quot;she believes all this crap she believes.&quot; The narrator doesn't think of Holly that way (Garson 82).<br /> <br /> Since her moral code differs from that of society, Holly has no qualms about lying. To protect herself or to keep people form getting too close, or from knowing too much about her, she fabricates. She fictionalizes when reality is grim and threatens to bring on the &quot;mean blues&quot; (sadness), or the &quot;mean reds&quot; (fear). Unwilling to share her memories of her early life. Holly invents a beautiful fantasy childhood for herself when the narrator tells her of his own unhappy boyhood.<br /> Holly also lies when a situation is not to her liking. At a party, when an acquaintance, Mag Wildwood, barges in and draws the attention of all the men, Holly retaliates by insinuating that Mag has a terrible social disease. Another time, to keep Mag from learning that she has slept with Mag's lover, Jose', Holly breezily pretends she is a lesbian, partly to deceive Mag and partly for the humor of the deception (Garson 82,83).<br /> <br /> ==Study Questions==<br /> # Why does Holly pretend to be a lesbian?<br /> <br /> # What makes Holly an extraordinary liar?<br /> <br /> # Why is Holly unwilling to share memories from her childhood?<br /> <br /> # Is Mag Wildwood really a lesbian?<br /> <br /> # Do the sailors beat up Rusty Trawler because he is a homosexual?<br /> <br /> # Does the narrator believe Holly is a prostitute?<br /> <br /> # Why does Holly surround herself with gay men?<br /> <br /> # Why is Holly only able to show emotion when her sunglasses are off?<br /> <br /> # Because the narrator makes numerous comments on Jose attributes, is he attracted to him?<br /> <br /> ==Works Cited==<br /> Garson, Helen S. ''Truman Capote''. New York: Ungar, 1980. 82,83.<br /> <br /> Pugh, Tison. &quot;Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's.&quot; Rev. of Breakfast At Tiffany's, by Truman Capote. Explicator 61.1: 51. 19 Mar. 2006 &lt;http://www.explicator.com&gt;. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> [[Breakfast at Tiffany's 4|Section four]] | [[Breakfast at Tiffany's]] | [[Breakfast at Tiffany's 6|Section six]]<br /> <br /> [[Category:Literature]]</div>

RNickels https://litwiki.org/index.php?title=Breakfast_at_Tiffany%27s_Section_5&diff=6194 2006-03-21T16:22:50Z

<p>RNickels: </p> <hr /> <div>== Summary ==<br /> The protagonist begins working a nine to five job and, as a result, sees less of Holly Golightly. One day, he sees Holly walking into a library. He observes her without her knowledge, and then he examines the books on her table after she leaves. He discovers that she is reading up on Brazil. Watching her read, the narrator compares her to a girl he knew in school, Mildred. They were totally opposite each other, yet like Siamese twins. The very thing that makes them so alike is that they are so different from anyone the narrator has ever met, and that &quot;they would never change because they'd been given their character too soon&quot; (58). One is intraverted and practical; the other is extraverted and impractical.<br /> <br /> The narration shifts to a party on Christmas Eve in Holly's apartment. The narrator is asked to come over and help trim the Christmas tree. Holly gives the narrator an expensive, antique bird cage for Christmas; he gives Holly a St. Christopher's medal from Tiffany's. The cost of the bird cage is three hundred and fifty dollars. Holly is not excited about the cost, she makes just a few more trips to the powder room so she could afford the bird cage.<br /> <br /> In February, Holly, Rusty, Mag, and José take a trip to the tropics. In Key West, Mag becomes severely sunburned, and Rusty is injured in a fight with some sailors. Both are hospitalized, so José and Holly travel to Havana. Mag becomes suspicious that José and Holly are sleeping together, so Holly tells Mag that she is a lesbian. Holly recounts these events as the protagonist gives her a back massage. Mag goes out and buys an army cot to sleep on so she will not have to share the bed with a lesbian. Holly informs the narrator that she has given O.J. Berman a copy of the narrator's story without his consent. Bernam publishes the story in the University Review. They become engaged in an argument, the protagonist is tempted to hit Holly, and Holly throws the narrator out of her apartment: &quot;It should take you about four seconds to walk from here to the door. I'll give you two&quot; (63).<br /> <br /> == Notes ==<br /> #'''hither''' (55) - to this place (seldom used except in poetry and legal papers).<br /> #'''yonning''' (55) - distant but in sight. From [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/yon yon].<br /> #'''overhaul''' (58) - a major repair or [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/revision revision].<br /> #'''Rockefeller Plaza''' (59) - A place where people gathered to celebrate the biggest, brightest Christmas tree of all. Celebrated since 1933.[http://wnbc.com/christmastree/1775354/detail.html].<br /> #'''tinsel''' (59) - a thread, strip, or sheet of metal, paper, or plastic used to produce a glittering and sparkling appearance in fabrics, yarns, or decorations.[http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/tinsel].<br /> #'''baubles''' (59) - Christmas ornaments that are decorations (usually made of glass, metal, wood or ceramics) that are used to [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/festoon festoon] a Christmas tree.<br /> #[[Image:PW242.jpg|thumb|St. Christopher's Medal]]'''St. Christopher's medal''' (59) - a small medallion depicting the patron saint against [http://www.catholic-forum.com/saintS/pst00432.htm lightning]; against [http://www.catholic-forum.com/saintS/pst00555.htm pestilence]; [http://www.catholic-forum.com/saintS/pst00032.htm archers]; [http://www.catholic-forum.com/saintS/pst00050.htm automobile drivers]; [http://www.catholic-forum.com/saintS/pst00050.htm automobilists]; [http://www.catholic-forum.com/saintS/pst00051.htm bachelors], etc.<br /> <br /> ==Commentary==<br /> Self-deception is not one of Holly's failings, although she is an extraordinary liar. It doesn't trouble her to beguile others when it suits her purpose. She constructs a world around her to make things as pleasant as she can, inventing stories when the truth is too painful to discuss. Berman, who calls Holly a &quot;phony&quot;, modifies it to &quot;a ''real'' phony,&quot; because, he claims, &quot;she believes all this crap she believes.&quot; The narrator doesn't think of Holly that way (Garson 82).<br /> <br /> Since her moral code differs from that of society, Holly has no qualms about lying. To protect herself or to keep people form getting too close, or from knowing too much about her, she fabricates. She fictionalizes when reality is grim and threatens to bring on the &quot;mean blues&quot; (sadness), or the &quot;mean reds&quot; (fear). Unwilling to share her memories of her early life. Holly invents a beautiful fantasy childhood for herself when the narrator tells her of his own unhappy boyhood.<br /> Holly also lies when a situation is not to her liking. At a party, when an acquaintance, Mag Wildwood, barges in and draws the attention of all the men, Holly retaliates by insinuating that Mag has a terrible social disease. Another time, to keep Mag from learning that she has slept with Mag's lover, Jose', Holly breezily pretends she is a lesbian, partly to deceive Mag and partly for the humor of the deception (Garson 82,83).<br /> <br /> ==Study Questions==<br /> * Why does Holly pretend to be a lesbian?<br /> <br /> * What makes Holly an extraordinary liar?<br /> <br /> * Why is Holly unwilling to share memories from her childhood?<br /> <br /> * Is Mag Wildwood really a lesbian?<br /> <br /> * Do the sailors beat up Rusty Trawler because he is a homosexual?<br /> <br /> * Does the narrator believe Holly is a prostitute?<br /> <br /> * Why does Holly surround herself with gay men?<br /> <br /> * Why is Holly only able to show emotion when her sunglasses are off?<br /> <br /> * Because the narrator makes numerous comments on Jose attributes, is he attracted to him?<br /> <br /> ==Works Cited==<br /> Garson, Helen S. ''Truman Capote''. New York: Ungar, 1980. 82,83.<br /> <br /> Pugh, Tison. &quot;Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's.&quot; Rev. of Breakfast At Tiffany's, by Truman Capote. Explicator 61.1: 51. 19 Mar. 2006 &lt;http://www.explicator.com&gt;. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> [[Breakfast at Tiffany's 4|Section four]] | [[Breakfast at Tiffany's]] | [[Breakfast at Tiffany's 6|Section six]]<br /> <br /> [[Category:Literature]]</div>

RNickels https://litwiki.org/index.php?title=Breakfast_at_Tiffany%27s_Section_5&diff=6192 2006-03-21T16:22:39Z

<p>RNickels: </p> <hr /> <div>== Summary ==<br /> The protagonist begins working a nine to five job and, as a result, sees less of Holly Golightly. One day, he sees Holly walking into a library. He observes her without her knowledge, and then he examines the books on her table after she leaves. He discovers that she is reading up on Brazil. Watching her read, the narrator compares her to a girl he knew in school, Mildred. They were totally opposite each other, yet like Siamese twins. The very thing that makes them so alike is that they are so different from anyone the narrator has ever met, and that &quot;they would never change because they'd been given their character too soon&quot; (58). One is intraverted and practical; the other is extraverted and impractical.<br /> <br /> The narration shifts to a party on Christmas Eve in Holly's apartment. The narrator is asked to come over and help trim the Christmas tree. Holly gives the narrator an expensive, antique bird cage for Christmas; he gives Holly a St. Christopher's medal from Tiffany's. The cost of the bird cage is three hundred and fifty dollars. Holly is not excited about the cost, she makes just a few more trips to the powder room so she could afford the bird cage.<br /> <br /> In February, Holly, Rusty, Mag, and José take a trip to the tropics. In Key West, Mag becomes severely sunburned, and Rusty is injured in a fight with some sailors. Both are hospitalized, so José and Holly travel to Havana. Mag becomes suspicious that José and Holly are sleeping together, so Holly tells Mag that she is a lesbian. Holly recounts these events as the protagonist gives her a back massage. Mag goes out and buys an army cot to sleep on so she will not have to share the bed with a lesbian. Holly informs the narrator that she has given O.J. Berman a copy of the narrator's story without his consent. Bernam publishes the story in the University Review. They become engaged in an argument, the protagonist is tempted to hit Holly, and Holly throws the narrator out of her apartment: &quot;It should take you about four seconds to walk from here to the door. I'll give you two&quot; (63).<br /> <br /> == Notes ==<br /> #'''hither''' (55) - to this place (seldom used except in poetry and legal papers).<br /> #'''yonning''' (55) - distant but in sight. From [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/yon yon].<br /> #'''overhaul''' (58) - a major repair or [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/revision revision].<br /> #'''Rockefeller Plaza''' (59) - A place where people gathered to celebrate the biggest, brightest Christmas tree of all. Celebrated since 1933.[http://wnbc.com/christmastree/1775354/detail.html].<br /> #'''tinsel''' (59) - a thread, strip, or sheet of metal, paper, or plastic used to produce a glittering and sparkling appearance in fabrics, yarns, or decorations.[http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/tinsel].<br /> #'''baubles''' (59) - Christmas ornaments that are decorations (usually made of glass, metal, wood or ceramics) that are used to [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/festoon festoon] a Christmas tree.<br /> *[[Image:PW242.jpg|thumb|St. Christopher's Medal]]'''St. Christopher's medal''' (59) - a small medallion depicting the patron saint against [http://www.catholic-forum.com/saintS/pst00432.htm lightning]; against [http://www.catholic-forum.com/saintS/pst00555.htm pestilence]; [http://www.catholic-forum.com/saintS/pst00032.htm archers]; [http://www.catholic-forum.com/saintS/pst00050.htm automobile drivers]; [http://www.catholic-forum.com/saintS/pst00050.htm automobilists]; [http://www.catholic-forum.com/saintS/pst00051.htm bachelors], etc.<br /> <br /> ==Commentary==<br /> Self-deception is not one of Holly's failings, although she is an extraordinary liar. It doesn't trouble her to beguile others when it suits her purpose. She constructs a world around her to make things as pleasant as she can, inventing stories when the truth is too painful to discuss. Berman, who calls Holly a &quot;phony&quot;, modifies it to &quot;a ''real'' phony,&quot; because, he claims, &quot;she believes all this crap she believes.&quot; The narrator doesn't think of Holly that way (Garson 82).<br /> <br /> Since her moral code differs from that of society, Holly has no qualms about lying. To protect herself or to keep people form getting too close, or from knowing too much about her, she fabricates. She fictionalizes when reality is grim and threatens to bring on the &quot;mean blues&quot; (sadness), or the &quot;mean reds&quot; (fear). Unwilling to share her memories of her early life. Holly invents a beautiful fantasy childhood for herself when the narrator tells her of his own unhappy boyhood.<br /> Holly also lies when a situation is not to her liking. At a party, when an acquaintance, Mag Wildwood, barges in and draws the attention of all the men, Holly retaliates by insinuating that Mag has a terrible social disease. Another time, to keep Mag from learning that she has slept with Mag's lover, Jose', Holly breezily pretends she is a lesbian, partly to deceive Mag and partly for the humor of the deception (Garson 82,83).<br /> <br /> ==Study Questions==<br /> * Why does Holly pretend to be a lesbian?<br /> <br /> * What makes Holly an extraordinary liar?<br /> <br /> * Why is Holly unwilling to share memories from her childhood?<br /> <br /> * Is Mag Wildwood really a lesbian?<br /> <br /> * Do the sailors beat up Rusty Trawler because he is a homosexual?<br /> <br /> * Does the narrator believe Holly is a prostitute?<br /> <br /> * Why does Holly surround herself with gay men?<br /> <br /> * Why is Holly only able to show emotion when her sunglasses are off?<br /> <br /> * Because the narrator makes numerous comments on Jose attributes, is he attracted to him?<br /> <br /> ==Works Cited==<br /> Garson, Helen S. ''Truman Capote''. New York: Ungar, 1980. 82,83.<br /> <br /> Pugh, Tison. &quot;Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's.&quot; Rev. of Breakfast At Tiffany's, by Truman Capote. Explicator 61.1: 51. 19 Mar. 2006 &lt;http://www.explicator.com&gt;. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> [[Breakfast at Tiffany's 4|Section four]] | [[Breakfast at Tiffany's]] | [[Breakfast at Tiffany's 6|Section six]]<br /> <br /> [[Category:Literature]]</div>

RNickels https://litwiki.org/index.php?title=Breakfast_at_Tiffany%27s_Section_5&diff=6191 2006-03-21T16:10:31Z

<p>RNickels: </p> <hr /> <div>== Summary ==<br /> The protagonist begins working a nine to five job and, as a result, sees less of Holly Golightly. One day, he sees Holly walking into a library. He observes her without her knowledge, and then he examines the books on her table after she leaves. He discovers that she is reading up on Brazil. Watching her read, the narrator compares her to a girl he knew in school, Mildred. They were totally opposite each other, yet like Siamese twins. The very thing that makes them so alike is that they are so different from anyone the narrator has ever met, and that &quot;they would never change because they'd been given their character too soon&quot; (58). One is intraverted and practical; the other is extraverted and impractical.<br /> <br /> The narration shifts to a party on Christmas Eve in Holly's apartment. The narrator is asked to come over and help trim the Christmas tree. Holly gives the narrator an expensive, antique bird cage for Christmas; he gives Holly a St. Christopher's medal from Tiffany's. The cost of the bird cage is three hundred and fifty dollars. Holly is not excited about the cost, she makes just a few more trips to the powder room so she could afford the bird cage.<br /> <br /> In February, Holly, Rusty, Mag, and José take a trip to the tropics. In Key West, Mag becomes severely sunburned, and Rusty is injured in a fight with some sailors. Both are hospitalized, so José and Holly travel to Havana. Mag becomes suspicious that José and Holly are sleeping together, so Holly tells Mag that she is a lesbian. Holly recounts these events as the protagonist gives her a back massage. Mag goes out and buys an army cot to sleep on so she will not have to share the bed with a lesbian. Holly informs the narrator that she has given O.J. Berman a copy of the narrator's story without his consent. Bernam publishes the story in the University Review. They become engaged in an argument, the protagonist is tempted to hit Holly, and Holly throws the narrator out of her apartment: &quot;It should take you about four seconds to walk from here to the door. I'll give you two&quot; (63).<br /> <br /> == Notes ==<br /> *'''hither''' (55) - to this place (seldom used except in poetry and legal papers).<br /> *'''yonning''' (55) - distant but in sight. From [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/yon yon].<br /> *'''overhaul''' (58) - a major repair or [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/revision revision].<br /> *'''Rockefeller Plaza''' (59) - A place where people gathered to celebrate the biggest, brightest Christmas tree of all. Celebrated since 1933.[http://wnbc.com/christmastree/1775354/detail.html].<br /> *'''tinsel''' (59) - a thread, strip, or sheet of metal, paper, or plastic used to produce a glittering and sparkling appearance in fabrics, yarns, or decorations.[http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/tinsel].<br /> *'''baubles''' (59) - Christmas ornaments that are decorations (usually made of glass, metal, wood or ceramics) that are used to [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/festoon festoon] a Christmas tree.<br /> *[[Image:PW242.jpg|thumb|St. Christopher's Medal]]'''St. Christopher's medal''' (59) - a small medallion depicting the patron saint against [http://www.catholic-forum.com/saintS/pst00432.htm lightning]; against [http://www.catholic-forum.com/saintS/pst00555.htm pestilence]; [http://www.catholic-forum.com/saintS/pst00032.htm archers]; [http://www.catholic-forum.com/saintS/pst00050.htm automobile drivers]; [http://www.catholic-forum.com/saintS/pst00050.htm automobilists]; [http://www.catholic-forum.com/saintS/pst00051.htm bachelors], etc.<br /> <br /> ==Commentary==<br /> Self-deception is not one of Holly's failings, although she is an extraordinary liar. It doesn't trouble her to beguile others when it suits her purpose. She constructs a world around her to make things as pleasant as she can, inventing stories when the truth is too painful to discuss. Berman, who calls Holly a &quot;phony&quot;, modifies it to &quot;a ''real'' phony,&quot; because, he claims, &quot;she believes all this crap she believes.&quot; The narrator doesn't think of Holly that way (Garson 82).<br /> <br /> Since her moral code differs from that of society, Holly has no qualms about lying. To protect herself or to keep people form getting too close, or from knowing too much about her, she fabricates. She fictionalizes when reality is grim and threatens to bring on the &quot;mean blues&quot; (sadness), or the &quot;mean reds&quot; (fear). Unwilling to share her memories of her early life. Holly invents a beautiful fantasy childhood for herself when the narrator tells her of his own unhappy boyhood.<br /> Holly also lies when a situation is not to her liking. At a party, when an acquaintance, Mag Wildwood, barges in and draws the attention of all the men, Holly retaliates by insinuating that Mag has a terrible social disease. Another time, to keep Mag from learning that she has slept with Mag's lover, Jose', Holly breezily pretends she is a lesbian, partly to deceive Mag and partly for the humor of the deception (Garson 82,83).<br /> <br /> ==Study Questions==<br /> * Why does Holly pretend to be a lesbian?<br /> <br /> * What makes Holly an extraordinary liar?<br /> <br /> * Why is Holly unwilling to share memories from her childhood?<br /> <br /> * Is Mag Wildwood really a lesbian?<br /> <br /> * Do the sailors beat up Rusty Trawler because he is a homosexual?<br /> <br /> * Does the narrator believe Holly is a prostitute?<br /> <br /> * Why does Holly surround herself with gay men?<br /> <br /> * Why is Holly only able to show emotion when her sunglasses are off?<br /> <br /> * Because the narrator makes numerous comments on Jose attributes, is he attracted to him?<br /> <br /> ==Works Cited==<br /> Garson, Helen S. ''Truman Capote''. New York: Ungar, 1980. 82,83.<br /> <br /> Pugh, Tison. &quot;Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's.&quot; Rev. of Breakfast At Tiffany's, by Truman Capote. Explicator 61.1: 51. 19 Mar. 2006 &lt;http://www.explicator.com&gt;. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> [[Breakfast at Tiffany's 4|Section four]] | [[Breakfast at Tiffany's]] | [[Breakfast at Tiffany's 6|Section six]]<br /> <br /> [[Category:Literature]]</div>

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<p>RNickels: </p> <hr /> <div>Style can be defined as a writer personal way of writing. A writers personality is often reflected in his or her own style. &quot;Style is the man himself&quot; writes Georges-Louis Buffon, a French naturalist (Morner and Rausch, 214). An author or writer's style is presented in his or her work by certain literary techniques such as tone and rythem.<br /> <br /> Myers and Wukasch write in their ''Dictionary of Poetic Terms'' that &quot;style (from the Latin for 'pointed instrument for writing,' or 'manner of speaking or writing') is the manifestation in language of a writer's individual voice and vision that are derived from his or her character...&quot; (346). Again, style is acheived by the writer's usage of literary techniques.<br /> <br /> As Hacker points out, sentences have style that are the building blocks for the style of the entire body of work. Achieving style with sentences can be attained by parallelism, coordination, subordination, and/or other techniques such as sentence structure (80).<br /> <br /> <br /> ----<br /> <br /> [[Literary Terms]]<br /> <br /> <br /> == Works Cited ==<br /> * Hacker, Diana. ''A Writer's Reference''. 5th ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's 2003.<br /> * Morner, Kathleen and Ralph Rausch. ''NTC's Dictionary of Literary Terms''. 1991.<br /> * Myers, Jack and Don C. Wukasch. ''Dictionary of Poetic Terms''. 2003.</div>

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<p>RNickels: </p> <hr /> <div>Style can be defined as a writer personal way of writing. A writers personality is often reflected in his or her own style. &quot;Style is the man himself&quot; writes Georges-Louis Buffon (Morner and Rausch, 214). An author or writer's style is presented in his or her work by certain litterary techniques such as tone and rythem.<br /> <br /> Myers and Wukasch write in their ''Dictionary of Poetic Terms'' that &quot;style (from the Latin for 'pointed instrument for writing,' or 'manner of speaking or writing') is the manifestation in language of a writer's individual voice and vision that are derived from his or her character...&quot; (346). Again, style is acheived by the writer's usage of litterary techniques.<br /> <br /> As Hacker points out, sentences have style that are the building blocks for the style of the entire body of work. Achieving style with sentences can be attained by parallelism, coordination, subordination, and/or other techniques such as sentence structure (80).<br /> <br /> <br /> ----<br /> <br /> [[Literary Terms]]<br /> <br /> <br /> == Works Cited ==<br /> * Hacker, Diana. ''A Writer's Reference''. 5th ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's 2003.<br /> * Morner, Kathleen and Ralph Rausch. ''NTC's Dictionary of Literary Terms''. 1991.<br /> * Myers, Jack and Don C. Wukasch. ''Dictionary of Poetic Terms''. 2003.</div>

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<p>RNickels: </p> <hr /> <div>Style can be defined as a writer personal way of writing. A writers personality is often reflected in his or her own style. &quot;Style is the man himself&quot; writes Georges-Louis Buffon (Morner and Rausch, 214). An author or writer's style is presented in his or her work by certain litterary techniques such as tone and rythem.<br /> <br /> Myers and Wukasch write in their ''Dictionary of Poetic Terms'' that &quot;style (from the Latin for 'pointed instrument for writing,' or 'manner of speaking or writing') is the manifestation in language of a writer's individual voice and vision that are derived from his or her character...&quot; (346). Again, style is acheived by the writer's usage of litterary techniques.<br /> <br /> As Hacker points out, sentences have style that are the building blocks for the style of the entire body of work. Achieving style with sentences can be attained by parallelism, coordination, subordination, and/or other techniques such as sentence structure (80).<br /> <br /> <br /> ----<br /> <br /> [[Literary Terms]]<br /> <br /> <br /> == Works Cited ==<br /> * Hacker, Diana. ''A Writer's Reference''. 5th ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's 2003.</div>

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<p>RNickels: </p> <hr /> <div>Style can be defined as a writer personal way of writing. A writers personality is often reflected in his or her own style. &quot;Style is the man himself&quot; writes Georges-Louis Buffon (Morner and Rausch, 214). An author or writer's style is presented in his or her work by certain litterary techniques such as tone and rythem.<br /> <br /> Myers and Wukasch write in their ''Dictionary of Poetic Terms'' that &quot;style (from the Latin for 'pointed instrument for writing,' or 'manner of speaking or writing') is the manifestation in language of a writer's individual voice and vision that are derived from his or her character...&quot; (346). Again, style is acheived by the writer's usage of litterary techniques.<br /> <br /> As Hacker points out, sentences have style that are the building blocks for the style of the entire body of work. Achieving style with sentences can be attained by parallelism, coordination, subordination, and/or other techniques such as sentence structure (80).<br /> <br /> <br /> ----<br /> <br /> [[Literary Terms]]</div>

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<p>RNickels: </p> <hr /> <div>Style can be defined as a writer personal way of writing. A writers personality is often reflected in his or her own style. &quot;Style is the man himself&quot; writes Georges-Louis Buffon (Morner and Rausch, 214). An author or writer's style is presented in his or her work by certain litterary techniques such as tone and rythem.<br /> <br /> Myers and Wukasch write in their ''Dictionary of Poetic Terms'' that &quot;style (from the Latin for 'pointed instrument for writing,' or 'manner of speaking or writing') is the manifestation in language of a writer's individual voice and vision that are derived from his or her character...&quot; (346). Again, style is acheived by the writer's usage of litterary techniques.<br /> <br /> As Hacker points out, sentences have style that are the building blocks for the style of the entire body of work. Achieving style with sentences can be attained by parallelism, coordination, subordination, and/or other techniques such as sentence structure.</div>

RNickels https://litwiki.org/index.php?title=Style&diff=5107 2006-02-18T20:38:04Z

<p>RNickels: </p> <hr /> <div>Style can be defined as a writer personal way of writing. A writers personality is often reflected in his or her own style. &quot;Style is the man himself&quot; writes Georges-Louis Buffon (Morner and Rausch, 214). An author or writer's style is presented in his or her work by certain litterary techniques such as tone and rythem.<br /> <br /> Myers and Wukasch write in their ''Dictionary of Poetic Terms'' that &quot;style (from the Latin for 'pointed instrument for writing,' or 'manner of speaking or writing') is the manifestation in language of a writer's individual voice and vision that are derived from his or her character...&quot; (346).</div>

RNickels https://litwiki.org/index.php?title=Style&diff=5106 2006-02-18T20:36:22Z

<p>RNickels: </p> <hr /> <div>Style can be defined as a writer personal way of writing. A writers personality is often reflected in his or her own style. &quot;Style is the man himself&quot; writes Georges-Louis Buffon (Morner and Rausch, 214). An author or writer's style is presented in his or her work by certain litterary techniques such as tone and rythem.<br /> <br /> Myers and Wukasch write in their ''Italic text''Dictionary of Poetic Terms''Italic text'' that &quot;style (from the Latin for 'pointed instrument for writing,' or 'manner of speaking or writing') is the manifestation in language of a writer's individual voice and vision that are derived from his or her character...&quot; (346).</div>

RNickels https://litwiki.org/index.php?title=Style&diff=5105 2006-02-18T20:32:16Z

<p>RNickels: </p> <hr /> <div>Style can be defined as a writer personal way of writing. A writers personality is often reflected in his or her own style. &quot;Style is the man himself&quot; writes Georges-Louis Buffon (Morner and Rausch, 214). An author or writer's style is presented in his or her work by certain litterary techniques such as tone and rythem.</div>

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<p>RNickels: </p> <hr /> <div>Style can be defined as a writer personal way of writing. A writers personality is often reflected in his or her own style. &quot;Style is the man himself&quot; writes Georges-Louis Buffon (Morner and Rausch, 214)</div>

RNickels https://litwiki.org/index.php?title=Style&diff=5103 2006-02-16T14:10:08Z

<p>RNickels: </p> <hr /> <div>Style can be defined as a writer personal way of writing. A writers personality is often reflected in his or her own style. &quot;Style, in literature, (is) the mysterious yet recognizable result of a successful blending of form with content&quot;(Columbia). A few examples that influence what the writers style is are techniques such as jargon, sentence structure, description, and the use of literary devices such as metaphors and similes.<br /> <br /> Donna Gorrell, an English proffessor writes in a commentary that, &quot;It's time for us to accept that if we want our students to write with style, to write like writers, we have to do more than teach sentence variety, rhythm, and emphasis, all the time leaning on correctness. If we want our students to express themselves as individuals, we have to allow them to be different-and, yes, to break the rules. We need to recognize that style is difference.&quot; Gorrell is trying to point out the many different aspects of style and the way to acheive &quot;style&quot;. Style is something a writer must have in order for their work to stand out and have unique qualities.</div>

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