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Belize

2006-04-27T04:12:58Z

Rbeard:

A former drag queen and former lover of Prior's. Belize is the drag name taken by Norman Arriaga. Belize is a registerd nurse. The Acter that plays Belize also plays Mr. Lies.

[[Image:Belize.jpg]]

=Commentary=
Belize is a strong character in this play. He is not afraid to show his true self and speak his feelings. He feels as if America is corrupt and full of "big ideas."

The character that plays Belize also plays Mr. Lies. Both of these characters seem to always be around in a time of need. Also, Belize does everything with the thought and care of others no such as taking care of Roy when he really doesn't like him and taking his pills after his death to help Prior.

Angels in America

2006-04-27T04:07:28Z

Rbeard: /* Works Cited */

[[Image:Angels-in-america-04.jpg|thumb|Angels in America]]

==Factual Information==
According to Jacobus, Kushner was suprised that both liberals and conservatives liked the play because Kushner thought that is attacked many of the conservative views (1636).

==Biography==

==Study Guide==

===Part One: Millennium Approaches===
====Act One: Bad News====
#[[Millennium Approaches 1.1|Act One, Scene 1]]
#[[Millennium Approaches 1.2|Act One, Scene 2]]
#[[Millennium Approaches 1.3|Act One, Scene 3]]
#[[Millennium Approaches 1.4|Act One, Scene 4]]
#[[Millennium Approaches 1.5|Act One, Scene 5]]
#[[Millennium Approaches 1.6|Act One, Scene 6]]
#[[Millennium Approaches 1.7|Act One, Scene 7]]
#[[Millennium Approaches 1.8|Act One, Scene 8]]
#[[Millennium Approaches 1.9|Act One, Scene 9]]
====Act Two: In Vitro====
#[[Millennium Approaches 2.1|Act Two, Scene 1]]
#[[Millennium Approaches 2.2|Act Two, Scene 2]]
#[[Millennium Approaches 2.3|Act Two, Scene 3]]
#[[Millennium Approaches 2.4|Act Two, Scene 4]]
#[[Millennium Approaches 2.5|Act Two, Scene 5]]
#[[Millennium Approaches 2.6|Act Two, Scene 6]]
#[[Millennium Approaches 2.7|Act Two, Scene 7]]
#[[Millennium Approaches 2.8|Act Two, Scene 8]]
#[[Millennium Approaches 2.9|Act Two, Scene 9]]
#[[Millennium Approaches 2.10|Act Two, Scene 10]]
====Act Three: Not-Yet-Conscious, Foward Dawning====
#[[Millennium Approaches 3.1|Act Three, Scene 1]]
#[[Millennium Approaches 3.2|Act Three, Scene 2]]
#[[Millennium Approaches 3.3|Act Three, Scene 3]]
#[[Millennium Approaches 3.4|Act Three, Scene 4]]
#[[Millennium Approaches 3.5|Act Three, Scene 5]]
#[[Millennium Approaches 3.6|Act Three, Scene 6]]
#[[Millennium Approaches 3.7|Act Three, Scene 7]]

===Part Two: Perestroika===
====Act One: Spooj====
#[[Perestroika 1.1|Act One, Scene 1]]
#[[Perestroika 1.2|Act One, Scene 2]]
#[[Perestroika 1.3|Act One, Scene 3]]
#[[Perestroika 1.4|Act One, Scene 4]]
#[[Perestroika 1.5|Act One, Scene 5]]
#[[Perestroika 1.6|Act One, Scene 6]]
====Act Two: The Epistle====
#[[Perestroika 2.1|Act Two, Scene 1]]

====Act Three: Borborygmi====
#[[Perestroika 3.1|Act Three, Scene 1]]
#[[Perestroika 3.2|Act Three, Scene 2]]
#[[Perestroika 3.3|Act Three, Scene 3]]
#[[Perestroika 3.4|Act Three, Scene 4]]
#[[Perestroika 3.5|Act Three, Scene 5]]
====Act Four: John Brown's Body====
#[[Perestroika 4.1|Act Four, Scene 1]]
#[[Perestroika 4.2|Act Four, Scene 2]]
#[[Perestroika 4.3|Act Four, Scene 3]]
#[[Perestroika 4.4|Act Four, Scene 4]]
#[[Perestroika 4.5|Act Four, Scene 5]]
#[[Perestroika 4.6|Act Four, Scene 6]]
#[[Perestroika 4.7|Act Four, Scene 7]]
#[[Perestroika 4.8|Act Four, Scene 8]]
#[[Perestroika 4.9|Act Four, Scene 9]]
====Act Five: Heaven, I'm in Heaven====
#[[Perestroika 5.1|Act Five, Scene 1]]
#[[Perestroika 5.2|Act Five, Scene 2]]
#[[Perestroika 5.3|Act Five, Scene 3]]
#[[Perestroika 5.4|Act Five, Scene 4]]
#[[Perestroika 5.5|Act Five, Scene 5]]
#[[Perestroika 5.6|Act Five, Scene 6]]
#[[Perestroika 5.7|Act Five, Scene 7]]
#[[Perestroika 5.8|Act Five, Scene 8]]
#[[Perestroika 5.9|Act Five, Scene 9]]
#[[Perestroika 5.10|Act Five, Scene 10]]
====Epilogue: Bethesda====
#[[Perestroika Epilogue]]

==Characters==

[[The Angel]]

[[Emily]]

[[The Eskimo]]

[[Ethel Rosenberg]]

[[Hannah Porter Pitt]]

[[Harper Amaty Pitt]]

[[Henry]]

[[Joseph Porter Pitt]]

[[Louis Ironson]]

[[The Man in the Park]]

[[Martin Heller]]

[[Mr. Lies]]

[[Norman Arriaga]] AKA: Belize

[[Prior I]]

[[Prior II]]

[[Prior Walter]]

[[Rabbi Isidor Chemelwitz]]

[[Roy Cohn]]

[[Sister Ella Chapter]]

[[The Voice]]

[[The Woman in the South Bronx]]

[[Belize]]

==Major Themes==
''Angels in America'' is in many ways a play about conversion.The experience of HIV illness is often conceived as involving a conversion of the self, and Prior's discovery that he has AIDS is depicted in part as making him a new person: I'm a lessionnaire". The Angel's visitation to Prior takes the form of a mission of conversion:given a new identity, Prior is like Joseph Smith, to become Prophet of a new dispensation. Indeed, in the course of the play all its characters undergo startling shifts in identity. Hannah is not only physically transplanted to New York but becomes ''"noticeably different--she looks like a New Yorker''. Roy , who clings tenaciously to his professional status a a lawyer,is disbarred just before his death. Harper moves through a period of dysfunction to strike out on her own, choosing "the real San Francisco, on earth," with its "unspeakable beauty" (Kruger 4).

Kushner uses split scenes to make more explicit the contrapuntal relationship between these seemingly disconnected narrative worlds. Roy's meeting with Joe, to discuss the junior attorney's future as a "Roy-Boy" in Washington, occurs alongside the scene in which Louis is sodomized in the Central Park Rambles by a leather clad mama's boy.Louis's mini-symposium at the coffee shop is simultaneous with Prior's medical checkup at an outpatient clinic. Dreams,ghosts, and a flock of dithering, hermaphroditic angels are also used to break through the play's realistic structure, to conjoin seemingly disparate characters, and to reveal the poetic resonances and interconnectedness of everyday life (McNulty 4).

==Major Symbols==

==Influences==
The biggest influences on this play would defiantly have to be American society. Kushner brings up many problems that he has with the country. Form his problems with President Regan to the discrimination of people in American society.

==Study Questions==
#Many of the gay characters struggle with the question of how their sexuality should be, and several come out in different ways during the course of the play. Discuss the meaning of the ''closet'' — are closeted characters different from uncloseted ones? What implications does coming out have for self and community?
#"It's law not justice," Joe tells Louis during their final breakup. Discuss the themes of law and justice as they appear in the play. Is Joe correct that the two are separate entities? Or does the play encourage a more visionary potential of the law?
#Belize stands out as exceptionally compassionate and good, yet at times seems two-dimensional. Which view is correct? Is Belize a virtuous stereotype or a complex moral authority?
#What does the subtitle "A Gay Fantasia on National Themes" suggest? What national themes are evident in the plays? What is the relationship between "gay" and "national"?
#[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perestroika Perestroika] was the term for Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of political and economic reform in the Soviet Union. In what ways does the play represent the possibility of ''perestroika'' in America? Is this an appropriate title for part two?
#Choosing at least two examples ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethel_Rosenberg The Rosenberg Trial], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1906_earthquake The San Francisco Earthquake], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl Chernobyl], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reagan_administration The Reagan Administration]), analyze the role of history in the plays. Does Kushner more or less depict events as they happened? If not, what dramatic and thematic purposes does he serve by shading the facts?
#As a "fantasia," ''Angels in America'' is a major departure from prevailing theatrical realism, with detours into the religious and the supernatural — angels, ghosts, apparitions, and visions appear over and over. What effect do these fantastical elements have on the play as a whole? Go beyond a simple analysis of plot to consider the implications for characters, messages, and themes.
#Is there any connection between [[the Angel]], and [[Mr. Lies]].

==Additional Resources==
*[http://www.januarymagazine.com/artcult/angelsinam.html Larger Than Life] - A review of'' Angels in America'' by Tony Buchsbaum.
*[http://www.hbo.com/films/angelsinamerica/cast/kushner_interview.html HBO Interview with Tony Kusher]

==Works Cited==

* Garner, Stanton B. ''"Angels in America: The Millennium and Postmodern Memory," in Approaching the Millenium, Essays on Angels in America,'' edited by Deborah R. Geis and Steven F. Kruger, University of Michigan Press, 1987: pp.173-84.

* Glenn, Lane A.. "Angels in America." ''Drama for Students''. Gale, 1999.

* Kruger, Steven F. ''"Identity and Conversion in Angels in America."in Approaching the Millennium: Essays on "Angels in America."'' edited by Deborah R. Geis and Steven F.Kruger, University of Michigan Press, 1997: pp. 151-69.

* Kushner, Tony. ''Angels in America''. New York: Theatre Communications Group, 1995.

* Layman, Bruccoli Clark. ''"Tony Kushner,"in Dictionary of Literary Biography,'' Volume 228: Twentienth Century American Dramatists, Second Series. Edited by Christopher J. Wheatley.

* McNutty, Charles. ''"Angels in America: Tony Kushner's Theses on the Philosophy of History."'' Modern Drama 39,no.1 (Spring 1996): 84-96.

* Meisner, Natalie. ''Messing with the Idyllic: The Performance of Femininity in Kushner's Angels in America''. ''The Yale Journal of Criticism'' 16,no.1 (2003): 177-189.

* Quinn, John R. ''"Corpus Juris Tertium: Redemptive Jurisprudence in Angels in America."'' Theatre Journal 48,no.1 (March 1996): 79-90.

* Trilling, Lionel, et. al. ''Bloom’s Period Studies: Modern American Drama''. Chelsea House Publishers, 2005.

* Jacobus, Lee A., Ed. ''The Beford Introduction to Drama.'' 3rd Ed. Boston: Bedford, 1997.

[[Category:Literature]]

Angels in America

2006-04-27T04:05:22Z

Rbeard: /* Factual Information */

Roy Cohn

2006-04-27T04:01:07Z

Rbeard:

http://www.logoonline.com/sitewide/promoimages/a/angels_in_america/characters/roy/150x200.jpg http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAcohn.jpg

The character of Roy Cohn serves as vehicle for Kushner's most telling act of counterhistory. As a "Saint of the Right", Cohn represents a point of continuity between the anticommunism of the 1950's and the Republic ascendancy of the Reagan 1980s (Garner 5).

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: "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?" 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).

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).

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 "corruption" of Cohn's flesh and blood with AIDS (Quinn).

==Commentary==
One of the main characters in ''Angels in America'', Roy Cohn, exhibits Hubris[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/]" 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.
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 "clout" to get ahead.

When confronted by his doctor, Henry, he explains his role as he saw it:

''"...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" (Kushner 51).''

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.

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 felt 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.

http://www.hbo.com/films/angelsinamerica/img/photos/photo_roys_closer.jpg

One of the great comparisons of Cohn is to Oedipus in Oedipus the King [http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~loxias/myth.htm"]written by Sophocles [http://galenet.galegroup.com.ezproxy.maconstate.edu/servlet/LitRC?vrsn=3&OP=contains&locID=maco12153&srchtp=athr&ca=1&c=1&ste=6&tab=1&tbst=arp&ai=U13003395&n=10&docNum=H1200007651&ST=Sophocles&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:

''"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." (Line 75-76)''

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.

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.

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.

http://www.hbo.com/films/angelsinamerica/img/photos/photo_roy_hospita.jpg

Cohn was chosen to be a part of this play because aided McCarthy during the anit-communist hysteria in the 50's and symbolizes power and selfishness. Also, he was a contradictory man because although he was a "closet homo" he helped in the persecution of gays (Jacobus 1635).

==Study Questiones==
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?

2. Do you think Roy could have changed, even if he wanted to?

3. Do we feel justification when Roy dies painfully and disembarred? If yes, isn't that kind of a "Roy-esk" quality, if you will?

4. Do you think putting his career at risk is the only reason that Roy Cohn would not call himself a homosexual?

5. Why do you think it is so important for Roy to live a life that is exactly like the life his father lived?

==External Resource==
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Cohn Roy Cohn]

*[http://galenet.galegroup.com.ezproxy.maconstate.edu/servlet/LitRC?vrsn=3&OP=contains&locID=maco12153&srchtp=athr&ca=1&c=1&ste=6&tab=1&tbst=arp&ai=U13021098&n=10&docNum=H1000019341&ST=Roy+Cohn&bConts=2191 Roy M. Cohn]

=Works Cited=
*Jacobus, Lee A., Ed. ''The Bedford Introduction to Drama.'' 3rd Ed. Boston: Bedford, 1997.

Roy Cohn

2006-04-27T03:57:07Z

Rbeard: works cited

http://www.logoonline.com/sitewide/promoimages/a/angels_in_america/characters/roy/150x200.jpg

The character of Roy Cohn serves as vehicle for Kushner's most telling act of counterhistory. As a "Saint of the Right", Cohn represents a point of continuity between the anticommunism of the 1950's and the Republic ascendancy of the Reagan 1980s (Garner 5).

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: "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?" 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).

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).

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 "corruption" of Cohn's flesh and blood with AIDS (Quinn).

==Commentary==
One of the main characters in ''Angels in America'', Roy Cohn, exhibits Hubris[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/]" 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.
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 "clout" to get ahead.

When confronted by his doctor, Henry, he explains his role as he saw it:

''"...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" (Kushner 51).''

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.

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 felt 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.

http://www.hbo.com/films/angelsinamerica/img/photos/photo_roys_closer.jpg

One of the great comparisons of Cohn is to Oedipus in Oedipus the King [http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~loxias/myth.htm"]written by Sophocles [http://galenet.galegroup.com.ezproxy.maconstate.edu/servlet/LitRC?vrsn=3&OP=contains&locID=maco12153&srchtp=athr&ca=1&c=1&ste=6&tab=1&tbst=arp&ai=U13003395&n=10&docNum=H1200007651&ST=Sophocles&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:

''"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." (Line 75-76)''

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.

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.

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.

http://www.hbo.com/films/angelsinamerica/img/photos/photo_roy_hospita.jpg

Cohn was chosen to be a part of this play because aided McCarthy during the anit-communist hysteria in the 50's and symbolizes power and selfishness. Also, he was a contradictory man because although he was a "closet homo" he helped in the persecution of gays (Jacobus 1635).

==Study Questiones==
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?

2. Do you think Roy could have changed, even if he wanted to?

3. Do we feel justification when Roy dies painfully and disembarred? If yes, isn't that kind of a "Roy-esk" quality, if you will?

4. Do you think putting his career at risk is the only reason that Roy Cohn would not call himself a homosexual?

5. Why do you think it is so important for Roy to live a life that is exactly like the life his father lived?

==External Resource==
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Cohn Roy Cohn]

*[http://galenet.galegroup.com.ezproxy.maconstate.edu/servlet/LitRC?vrsn=3&OP=contains&locID=maco12153&srchtp=athr&ca=1&c=1&ste=6&tab=1&tbst=arp&ai=U13021098&n=10&docNum=H1000019341&ST=Roy+Cohn&bConts=2191 Roy M. Cohn]

=Works Cited=
*Jacobus, Lee A., Ed. ''The Bedford Introduction to Drama.'' 3rd Ed. Boston: Bedford, 1997.

Roy Cohn

2006-04-27T03:54:53Z

Rbeard: add on to commentary

Joseph Porter Pitt

2006-04-27T03:47:21Z

Rbeard: just added on to summary and added a works cited

[[Image:Joe.jpg]]
==Background==
Joe is a Mormon chief clerk for Justice Theodore Wilson of the Federal Court of Appeals, Second Circuit. He is married to Harper Pitt. They have a strained marriage, as Joe is a closeted homosexual. His Mormon beliefs, and what he perceives to be "right" have stood in his way of finding his true happiness. For most of his life, he has not admitted his homosexuality to his family, friends, wife, or even himself. He has been chosen by the great Roy Cohn to be his right-hand man in Washington, and Joe is faced with a tremendous crisis of conscience: He must decide whether he can transplant his paranoid, delusional wife, whom he is growing less and less fond of, to Washington, or leave her to pursue a career under Roy as one of the “Chief Elect” and proceed a homosexual lifestyle eventually devoid of his religion. Joe eventually becomes intimate with Louis. Both of whom think themselves unworthy of love. Joe feels guilty he has never lived up to the expectations of his father (mostly his being gay). Joe loves Louis, but it ultimately dumped by him for his association (and believed love affair) with Roy Cohn.Joe's path in the play (sufficient and strong to helpless and dependent) is in some ways the opposite of Prior's transformation. The play finally seems to abandon Joe, excluding him from its vision of the good society because of his ideology.

Joe's character is similar to Kushner himself. Jacobus states that Kushner said he had "fairly clear memories of being gay since I was six." Also, Jacobus states that Kushner did not "come out" until after he had tried psychotherapy to change his sexual orientation. Although Joe knew all along that he was a homosexual, he tried everything he could to change his sexual orientation because he thought it was the "right thing to do."

== Work Cited ==
*Enotes.com- [http://www.enotes.com/angels-america/8614 Angels in America]

*Rev. of Angels in America. SparkNotes. 23 Apr. 2006 [http://www.sparknotes.com/drama/angels/terms/char_3.html Joe Pitt]

*Rev. of Angels in America. nursingadvocacy. 23 Apr. 2006 [http://www.nursingadvocacy.org/media/films/angels.html Joe Pitt]

*Jacobus, Lee A., Ed. ''The Bedford Introduction to Drama.'' 3rd Ed. Boston: Bedford, 1997.

Millennium Approaches 2.7

2006-04-27T03:38:51Z

Rbeard:

==Summary==
In the opening of this scene, Joe sits with Louis outside the Hall of Justice in Brooklyn. They are eating hotdogs and talking about politics. Louis talks about Reagan and how there is no real communication between members of his family other that through their agents.

When Louis starts to leave, Joe begins telling him how he showed up at work the day before when he didn't have to. He says that he got his days confused and thought that he was left alone when he didn't see anyone. Then Louis tells him that he moved out of Prior's apartment.

==Notes==
*[http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/rr40.html Ronald Reagan](76)- the 40th President from 1981-1989.

*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeitgeist Zeitgeist](77)- German expression that means the spirit of time.

==Commentary==
==Study Questions==
1. Where are Joe and Louis sitting while they talk?

2. What does Joe take with his hotdogs?

3. What does Louis say about the Reagan's?

4. On what day is the Hall of Justice closed?

5. What does Louis tell Joe he has to be willing to do?

==External Resources==
==Works Cited==

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[[Angels in America | In Vitro Act 2 Scene 8]]
[[Category:Literature]]

Millennium Approaches 1.9

2006-04-27T03:20:18Z

Rbeard:

==Summary==
[[Image:Pacino.jpg|right|thumb|''Al Pacino as Roy Cohn'']]
The scene opens with Roy and Henry, his doctor, in Henry's office. Dr. Henry informs Roy that his lesions, throat problem, and swollen glands are all related to Kaposi's sarcomas, meaning that Roy has AIDS. Roy accuses Henry of implying that he is either a drug addict, which must not be the case since there are no "tracks," or a homosexual, since the syndrome mostly afflicts them. Roy then threatens Henry by saying that if Henry does call him a homosexual, he will "destroy" Henry's medical career (50).

Henry does not directly call Roy homosexual but instead says that Roy has slept with many men. Roy then goes off on a rant, saying that Henry is too "hung up on words, on labels" (51). Roy admits to having sex with men, but still insists that he is not homosexual since he has "clout." He then says that he does not have AIDS, he has liver cancer, since "AIDS is what homosexuals have" (52). Henry then says that he cannot get Roy any medication since the new drug AZT has a two-year waiting list.

==Notes==
*'''Kaposi's sarcoma''' (49) - a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaposi%27s_Sarcoma cancer] of the connective or supportive tissue. Caused by a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herpesvirus herpesvirus] infection in which cancerous cells form solid lesions in the connective tissue, KS was one of the first signs of the existence of the 1980s [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDS AIDS] epidemic.

*'''lesions''' (49) - abnormal [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesion body tissue] caused, in the case of Roy Cohn, by Kaposi's sarcoma.

*'''lymphadenopathy''' (49) - the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lymphadenopathy swelling] of one or more [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lymph_node lymph node].

*'''oral candidiasis''' (49) - also called [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oral_thrush "oral thrush"], an infection of yeast fungus in the mucous membranes of the mouth. Symptoms include white, cream coloured, or yellow spots in the mouth, and it is often found in people with HIV and AIDS.

*'''Hemophiliac''' (49) - someone with the hereditary genetic illness, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemophilia Hemophilia], which impairs the body's ability to control bleeding.

*'''"the NIH in Bethesda"''' (52) - the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nih National Institutes of Health], the main agency of the United States government responsible for medical research. The institutes are located in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethesda%2C_Maryland Bethesda], a town in Maryland.

*'''AZT''' (52) - [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AZT azidothymidine], the first [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiretroviral_drug antiretroviral drug] approved for treatment of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV HIV].

*[http://www.mamashealth.com/cancer/livercancer.asp Liver Cancer] (52)- the most common form is Heptoma which affects the tissue surrounding the liver and can be associated with Hepatitis B.

==Commentary==
This is one of my favorite scenes in the play. It has so much feeling and emotion. This is where you really get a feeling for who Roy Cohn is. In the scenes before this we learn that he is a powerful man that does a lot, but here is where Kushner lets you know how he feels about American Ideas. I think what Roy says in this scene sank in more than anything else in the book, because there is no interpreting or wondering what Kushner is trying to say. Roy is the personification of Americas attitude toward homosexuality. When Roy says, “Like all labels they tell you one thing and one thing only; where does an individual so identified sit in the food chain, the pecking order? Not ideology, or sexual taste, something much simpler: clout... homosexuals are men who know nobody and nobody knows. Who have zero clout.(51) ” Those few words are the best way that I have ever heard those American felling stated. Now don’t get me wrong, not all Americans, but a lot of us do feel that way, don’t we have bigger things to worry about?

Maybe Roy is treatening to Henry in this scene because he doesn't want to go public with his homosexuality. Roy states that "Homosexuals are men who in fifteen years of trying cannot get a pissant antidiscrimination bill through City Council"(51). He basically says that he doesn't fit in the category of homosexual because he has power and can make anyone do anything with just a simple phone call.

==Study Questions==
#What illness is Roy diagnosed with?
#How does Roy threaten Dr. Henry?
#For what else has Dr. Henry treated Roy?
#How does Roy define the term "homosexual"?
#Why does Roy not consider himself a homosexual?
#Who does Roy claim he could get on the phone in under five minutes?
#What does Roy call his illness?
#What is the name of the new wait-listed drug that could treat Roy?

==External Resources==
*[http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=13&prgDate=09-Dec-2003 Kushner Radio Interview]

==Works Cited==
*Kushner, Tony. ''Angels in America''. New York: Theatre Communications Group, 1995.
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[[Category:Literature]]

Tony Kushner

2006-04-04T02:08:56Z

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[[Image:TonyKushner.jpg|thumb|Tony Kushner]]
==Major Works==
==Plays==

* ''Yes, Yes, No, No'', published in ''Plays in Process'', 1987.

* ''Stella'', produced in New York, NY, 1987.

* ''A Bright Room Called Day'', (produced in San Francisco, CA, 1987).

* ''Hydriotaphia'', produced in New York, NY, 1987.

* ''The Illusion'' (adapted from Pierre Corneille's play L'Illusion comique, produced in New York, NY, 1988.

* ''Widows'' (with Ariel Dorfman), produced in Los Angeles, CA, 1991.

* ''Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes'', Part One: ''Millennium Approaches''(produced in San Francisco,
1991),Hern, 1992, Part Two: Perestroika,produced in New York,NY, 1992).

* ''A Bright Room Called Day'', Theatre Communications Group (New York, NY), 1994.

* Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes (includes both parts; produced as two-part television film on Home
Box Office, 2003), Theatre Communications Group (New York, NY), 1995.

* ''Henry Box Brown, or the Mirror of Slavery'', performed at Royal National Theatre,London, 1998.

==Biography==
Tony Kushner was born in Manhattan on July 16, 1956, the son of William and Sylvia Kushner, both classically trained musicians who encouraged his budding interests in the arts and literature. Kushner spent most of his childhood in Lake Charles, Louisiana. His mother, an amateur actress, performed in local plays, and Kushner became entranced by the emotional power of the theater and the arts in general. Kushner moved to New York in 1974 to begin his undergraduate college education at Columbia University, where he completed a B.A. in English literature in 1978. While in college, he also immersed himself in the New York theater scene. Though aware of his sexual preference from an early age, Kushner attempted to overcome his homosexuality through psychotherapy. He eventually came to terms with his sexual orientation and opened his writing to homosexual themes. Following the completion of his degree at Columbia, Kushner worked as a switchboard operator at the United Nations Plaza Hotel from 1979 to 1985, during which time he also enrolled at the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University.
Trained as a director under the guidance of Bertolt Brecht specialist Carl Weber, Kushner wrote plays and directed them with his fellow students prior to completing his M.F.A. in directing in 1984. Some of these plays were also staged by the Imaginary Theatre Company at the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis where Kushner worked as an assistant director (Wheatley 1).

Kushner came of age in an era of major changes in the American cultural landscape. Having come to terms in his late teens with his homosexuality, following some abortive efforts to find a "cure" for his sexual orientation, Kushner became inspired,in part, by the writers and artists emerging from the Stonewall generation and after. He was especially drawn to such organizations as ACT UP and Queer Nation, whose chant, "We're here, we're queer, we're fabulous," pervades his two ''Angels in America'' plays. As a gay man, Kushner also acknowledges some debt to gay dramatists Larry Kramer and Harvey Fierstein, but more directly significant to his development as a dramatist is his deep admiration for Tennessee Williams, the American dramatist who brought sexuality out of the theatrical closet. It is of central significance that Kushner identifies himself as a gay dramatist (Wheatley 2).

In 2003, Kushner married his boyfriend, Mark Harris and they were the first homosexual couple to be featured in the "Vows" column of the ''New York Times''. Mark Harris is currently the Editor at Large of ''Entertainment Weekly'' magazine. (www.imdb.com)

==Awards==
''Angels in America, Millennium Approaches'', won the Pulitzer Prize for drama, the Antoinette Perry (Tony) Award for Best Play,and the New York Drama Critics Award for best play. Kushner won another Tony Award for best play in 1994 for the second part of Angels in America, Perestroika.

In 2004, Kushner won an Emmy for Outstanding writing of a mini series, movie or dramatic special for ''Angels in America''.

In 2006, Kushner shared nominations for a Golden Globe and Academy Award with Eric Roth for best screenplay of ''Munich''.

Kushner won a Writer's Guild Award in 2005 in the long film adapted category for ''Angels in America''.

==Timeline==
1985 to 1986: Assistant Director of the St. Louis Repertory Theatre.

1987 to 1988: Artistic Director of the New York Theatre Workshop.

1989: Director of Literary Services for the Theatre Communications Group.

==Additional Reading about the Author==

* [http://www.imagi-nation.com/moonstruck/clsc51.html Tony Kushner (1956-)]

==Works Cited==

Wheatley, Christopher J. ''"Tony Kushner," in Dictionary of Literary Biography,Volume 228: Twentieth-Century American Dramatists, Second Series.'' A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book.

[[Category:Literature]]

Tony Kushner

2006-04-04T02:06:31Z

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[[Image:TonyKushner.jpg|thumb|Tony Kushner]]
==Major Works==
==Plays==

* ''Yes, Yes, NO, No'', published in ''Plays in Process'', 1987.

* ''Stella'', produced in New York, NY, 1987.

* ''A Bright Room Called Day'', (produced in San Francisco, CA, 1987).

* ''Hydriotaphia'', produced in New York, NY, 1987.

* ''The Illusion'' (adapted from Pierre Corneille's play L'Illusion comique, produced in New York, NY, 1988.

* ''Widows'' (with Ariel Dorfman), produced in Los Angeles, CA, 1991.

* ''Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes'', Part One: ''Millennium Approaches''(produced in San Francisco,
1991),Hern, 1992, Part Two: Perestroika,produced in New York,NY, 1992).

* ''A Bright Room Called Day'', Theatre Communications Group (New York, NY), 1994.

* Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes (includes both parts; produced as two-part television film on Home
Box Office, 2003), Theatre Communications Group (New York, NY), 1995.

* ''Henry Box Brown, or the Mirror of Slavery'', performed at Royal National Theatre,London, 1998.

==Biography==
Tony Kushner was born in Manhattan on July 16, 1956, the son of William and Sylvia Kushner, both classically trained musicians who encouraged his budding interests in the arts and literature. Kushner spent most of his childhood in Lake Charles, Louisiana. His mother, an amateur actress, performed in local plays, and Kushner became entranced by the emotional power of the theater and the arts in general. Kushner moved to New York in 1974 to begin his undergraduate college education at Columbia University, where he completed a B.A. in English literature in 1978. While in college, he also immersed himself in the New York theater scene. Though aware of his sexual preference from an early age, Kushner attempted to overcome his homosexuality through psychotherapy. He eventually came to terms with his sexual orientation and opened his writing to homosexual themes. Following the completion of his degree at Columbia, Kushner worked as a switchboard operator at the United Nations Plaza Hotel from 1979 to 1985, during which time he also enrolled at the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University.
Trained as a director under the guidance of Bertolt Brecht specialist Carl Weber, Kushner wrote plays and directed them with his fellow students prior to completing his M.F.A. in directing in 1984. Some of these plays were also staged by the Imaginary Theatre Company at the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis where Kushner worked as an assistant director (Wheatley 1).

Kushner came of age in an era of major changes in the American cultural landscape. Having come to terms in his late teens with his homosexuality, following some abortive efforts to find a "cure" for his sexual orientation, Kushner became inspired,in part, by the writers and artists emerging from the Stonewall generation and after. He was especially drawn to such organizations as ACT UP and Queer Nation, whose chant, "We're here, we're queer, we're fabulous," pervades his two ''Angels in America'' plays. As a gay man, Kushner also acknowledges some debt to gay dramatists Larry Kramer and Harvey Fierstein, but more directly significant to his development as a dramatist is his deep admiration for Tennessee Williams, the American dramatist who brought sexuality out of the theatrical closet. It is of central significance that Kushner identifies himself as a gay dramatist (Wheatley 2).

In 2003, Kushner married his boyfriend, Mark Harris and they were the first homosexual couple to be featured in the "Vows" column of the ''New York Times''. Mark Harris is currently the Editor at Large of ''Entertainment Weekly'' magazine. (www.imdb.com)

==Awards==
''Angels in America, Millennium Approaches'', won the Pulitzer Prize for drama, the Antoinette Perry (Tony) Award for Best Play,and the New York Drama Critics Award for best play. Kushner won another Tony Award for best play in 1994 for the second part of Angels in America, Perestroika.

In 2004, Kushner won an Emmy for Outstanding writing of a mini series, movie or dramatic special for ''Angels in America''.

In 2006, Kushner shared nominations for a Golden Globe and Academy Award with Eric Roth for best screenplay of ''Munich''.

Kushner won a Writer's Guild Award in 2005 in the long film adapted category for ''Angels in America''.

==Timeline==
1985 to 1986: Assistant Director of the St. Louis Repertory Theatre.

1987 to 1988: Artistic Director of the New York Theatre Workshop.

1989: Director of Literary Services for the Theatre Communications Group.

==Additional Reading about the Author==

* [http://www.imagi-nation.com/moonstruck/clsc51.html Tony Kushner (1956-)]

==Works Cited==

Wheatley, Christopher J. ''"Tony Kushner," in Dictionary of Literary Biography,Volume 228: Twentieth-Century American Dramatists, Second Series.'' A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book.

[[Category:Literature]]

Breakfast at Tiffany's Section 8

2006-03-22T18:16:34Z

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== Summary ==
Section eight of Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's begins with the title to a shocking newspaper clipping. It reads, "Trawler marries fourth" (74). The narrator reads this clip while riding the subway home from an unsuccessful job interview with “PM”, a newspaper that is now closed. He immediately assumes that Rusty Trawler has taken Holly to be his fourth wife. This immediately triggers the infamous “mean reds”. After going through an emotional battle with himself on the train ride, he bought a paper and finished the headline. It ends up Rusty married Mag, not Holly!

When he reaches his apartment building, Madame Spanella is screaming for the police to come, and he hears a lot of noise coming from Holly’s apartment. The narrator goes and bangs on Holly’s door and everything seems to quiet down, but no matter how many times he calls, Holly will not come to the door. He tries to break it down, until Jose Ybarra-Jager, Mag Wildwood's ex-fiancé, arrives with a doctor. Jose opens the apartment door with his own key and the trio proceeds through it. They find the apartment in complete disarray. The cat is lapping up milk from the floor, and Holly is standing rigid on the bed. She is muttering an incoherent description of someone, whom the narrator assumes is Rusty Trawler, but he later discovers it is actually of her brother, Fred. The doctor begins to soothe Holly and injects her with a sedative. Jose continuously asks the doctor if "her sickness is only grief" (78). With this question, the doctor kicks both Jose and the narrator out of the room. [[Image:Tiffanys_riceexplosion_scap.jpg|thumb|Holly Cooking ]]Out of anger, Jose kicks Madame Spanella out of the apartment and almost repeats this action with the narrator; instead, Jose invites the narrator to sit with him and have a drink, which happens to be the only bottle that survived Holly's rampage. Jose then shows the narrator the telegram that induced Holly’s tantrum. It is from Doc Golightly and says that Fred was killed in action. Because of this, Holly stops calling the narrator "Fred."

Jose moves in with Holly, replacing Mag as her roommate and Holly stops caring so much about her appearance. "Her hair darkened, she put on weight. She became rather careless about her clothes..." (80). However, the narrator describes her as seeming "more content, altogether happier than I'd ever seen her" (80). She buys cookbooks and starts learning how to make strange dishes while failing at cooking the most simple of recipes. She also begins learning Portuguese.

During a conversation, the narrator learns that Holly is six weeks pregnant. She says she wants to have nine children with Jose, and ceaselessly talks about how much she looks forward to moving with Jose to Rio. She insists that she is in love with Jose, but she seems to find a fault in every habit that Jose has. She even says that Jose is not her idea of a perfect man. "If I were free to...," Holly continues, "I would not pick Jose" (82). The narrator, after hearing so much about Jose begins to dislike Jose. He even stops saying Jose's name while he is speaking to Holly and simply refers to Jose as "Him."

One day, on an outing, Holly observes ships sailing by and exclaims, "one day, one of those ships will bring me back, me and my nine Brazilin brats" (84). The narrator, tired of hearing about her "brats" and Jose, says "Do shut up"(84). He clearly felt left out, "like a tug boat in dry-dock while she, glittery voyager of secure destination, steamed down the harbor with whistles whistling and confetti in the air" (84).

== Notes ==
*'''"The now defunct newspaper, ''PM''"''' (75) - A left-wing daily newspaper in New York City, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PM_%28newspaper%29 ''PM''] stood for "Picture Magazine," since it borrowed so many pictures from other newsmagazines. The newspaper began in 1940 and was published until 1948 when it was replaced by the ''New York Star''.

*'''"A Parke-Bernet Auction"''' (80) - Parke-Bernet is the United States's largest fine-arts auctioneer, purchased by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sotheby%27s Sotheby's] in 1964.

*'''William Randolph Hearst''' (80) - An American newspaper [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Randolph_Hearst magnate] who invented [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism "yellow journalism"] and waas a leader of the liberal wing of the Democratic party from 1896 to 1935.

*'''Modern Library''' (80) - A division of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_House Randolph House Publishers]. Founded in 1917, it identified itself as "The Modern Library of the World's Best Books."

*'''Metropolitan Museum''' (80) - One of the world's largest and most important [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Museum art museums], located in Manhattan, New York.

*'''Waring mixer''' (80) - [http://www.waringproducts.com Waring] is a leading manufacturer of small appliances for the home, food service, and laboratory industries.

*'''Hausfrau''' (80) - Translated from German to English, "housewife."

*'''Outré''' (81) - Highly unconventional; eccentric or bizarre.

*'''Terrapin''' (81) - An [http://images.google.com/images?q=terrapin&hl=en amphibious reptile turtle] that can live in the water and on land.

*'''"Nero-ish novelties"''' (81) - [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nero Nero] was the fifth and last emperor of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julio-Claudian_dynasty Julio-Claudian dynasty] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rome Rome].

*'''Pomegranates and persimmons''' (81) - The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomegranates Pomegranate], or ''Punica granatum'', is a species of fruit-bearing deciduous shrub or small tree. Holly uses the fruit in her roasted [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pheasant pheasant]. The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persimmons persimmon], meaning "dry fruit," is an edible fruit borne by some species of the genus [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diospyros ''Diospyros''].

*'''Linguaphone records''' (81) - Founded in 1901, [http://www.linguaphoneusa.com/ Linguaphone] is a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguaphone company] that helps people learn foreign languages, especially through self-learning courses.

*'''Nehru''' (82) - An important leader of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Independence_Movement Indian Independence Movement] and the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_National_Congress Indian National Congress]. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nehru Nehru] became the first Prime Minister of India when the country won its independence on August 15, 1947.

*'''Wendell Willkie''' (83) - A [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendell_Willkie lawyer] and the Republican nominee in the 1940 presidential election against Franklin D. Roosevelt.

*'''Garbo''' (83) - [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greta_Garbo Greta Garbo] was a Swedish actress who was highly successful in silent films, as well as in those with sound.

*'''Fado''' (83) - A [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fado music genre] believed to have originated in Portugal in the 1820s. The genre is characterized by mournful tunes and lyrics, often about the sea or the life of the poor.

*'''Joss sticks''' (84) - Slender sticks of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incense incense] burned before a Chinese image, idol, or shrine.

== Commentary ==
Capote seems to have known someone in his life that he loved as much as the narrator loves Holly." He describes this woman in such a way that you get the sense he has molded her on someone that intrigued him, that held some allure or had an aura of mysticism that left a deep impression." [http://kimbofo.typepad.com/readingmatters/2006/01/breakfast_at_ti.html (Kimbofo)] On the other hand, he may have intended to spark a female movement of freedom to do what they want." BaT "inspired women to pack their bags and seek their fortunes in New York and all over the country." [http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bcash/criticalanalysis.html (Cash)] If this was his goal, then he certainly achieved it! In any case, he portrays very well his anguish upon "learning" that Holly has married Rusty. [[Image:breakfast.gif|thumb|Holly]]These emotions of desire, love, jealousy, and lonliness really seem to resonate throughout this section. The narrator, despite knowing that Holly is not yet married, watches mournfully as Holly is converted into an expecting mother of six weeks by Jose. Holly also mentions Jose in almost every conversation. The once "party girl-about-town and exuberant phony" [http://www.jp41.dial.pipex.com/R735.HTML (Prior)] that he knew becomes a mostly content stay-at-home-wife.

The main turning point, it seems, in Holly's rebellious ways is the death of her brother, Fred. Fred represented her willingness to run up to this point in the novella. His death, like the death of Holly's freedom, is violent and sudden as Jose converts her into a house wife. Furthermore, Holly mourns her brother's death as much as she seems to subconsiously pine for her old ways of travel. In her conversations with the narrator, she seems unresolved with the idea of spending the rest of her life with Jose. Yes, she wishes to spend time with him, but she finds so many faults in him. She even tells the narrator that she would not choose to be with Jose if she had the ability to go back in time. Obviously she is trying to convince herself that she ''is'' in love with Jose because now she is pregnant. She continues to repeat over and over again that she loves him. She does admit, though, that Jose is her first "non-rat" lover in her life. This is an easy statement to believe, as most early references to Holly's love life make strong references to prostitution. Taking men to the powder room and coming out with money, for example. She labels all of her past lovers "rats", but she forces herself to see an allure in them. "She feels that she has to if she is going to continue to make a living out of it (prostitution). And not only that, but she hopes to secure her financial future just as easily." [http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bcash/criticalanalysis.html (Cash)]

This stage of the story is one of the narrator's last chances to tell Holly how he really feels. So why doesn't he? More than likely, he has noticed the pattern that Holly has presented with her other relationships. Every time a man tries to keep her for himself, Holly simply runs away. The narrator, knowing that trying to tie her down will end in failure, assumes that acting indifferent will result in Holly staying as close to him as possible for a longer period of time. [[Image:Hollynfred.jpg|thumb|Holly and the Narrator ]]Though his "plan" seems to work for a time, the narrator could not forsee Holly's drastic change into a housewife resulting from pregnancy. The narrator's reaction to Holly's new condition is easily pitiful. He simply sinks into a pool and drowns in his own self pity. This self pity may even be the result of future events with Holly. After all, ''he'' has never tried to sweep Holly off her feet. She may have simply been testing the narrator to see whether or not he really loved her. On the other hand, she may have considered the narrator to be gay. She believed, "If a man doesn't like baseball, then he must like horses, and if he doesn't like either of them, well, I'm in trouble anyway: he don't like girls" (38). Holly found that the narrator did not care for either, so she may have believed that he was gay. If she did, her opinion of his sexuality would have explained her disinterest in him. "...Capote describes Holly's two closest friends- the narrator and Joe Bell- as homosexuals, though he does so with such a delicate touch that many critics have failed to recognize these characters as gay" (Pugh). Pugh suggests that Holly's friendship with gay men are one sign of her progressive sexual politics. Holly states, "A person ought to be able to marry men or women or--listen, if you came to me and said you wanted to hitch up with Man o' War, I'd respect your feeling. No, I'm serious. Love should be allowed" (Capote 83). Depending on Holly's perspective, her utter lack of feelings for the narrator, despite their intimacy, could have stemmed from a false assumption of his sexuality.

Regardless of her true intentions, this section ends with the narrator giving a wonderful metaphor. "So the days, the last days, blow about in memory, hazy, autumnal, all alike as leaves: until a day unlike any other I've lived"(84-85). The narrator's final days with Holly are described as falling leaves before winter. One has seen leaves before, but they all seem the same. Rarely does any one leaf stand out in memory. One can only remember falling leaves look alike. The narrator feels the same way about his final days with Holly. He can tell little difference between them, and he spends most of the time with her worrying about the time that she would be away from him. Also, like falling leaves, these memories seem to blow away, unable to be caught or held onto as a keepsake.

== Study Questions ==
#Who is it that the narrator believes Holly has married?
#Combined with the city heat of the summer and fact that he hadn't seen Holly, what are the other two reasons the narrator wishes he "were under the wheels of the train"?
#Who turns out to be the woman that has gotten married?
#What is Dr. Goldman's explanation for Holly's fit?
#What is the real reason for Holly's fit?
#Whose name replaces Mag Wildwood's on Holly's mailbox?
#Holly mentions something of importance to the narrator, while she is talking about her feelings for Jose. What is it?
#Holly says that she would rather have cancer than a what?
#In your opinion, how does Capote relate to the narrator in real life as far as his relationship with Holly?
#What name does Holly give the narrator after her brother dies?
#What kind of boat does the narrator relate himself to? What kind of boat does he picture Holly as?
#At the end of this section, the narrator uses a metaphor to explain his feelings. How does he feel about his last few days with Holly?

== External Resources ==

*http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/capote.htm

*http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/capote.htm

*http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780679600237

*http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/capote_t.html

*http://lionreference.chadwyck.com/searchFulltext.do?id=BIO002992&divLevel=0&queryId=../session/1142957921_29363&area=ref&forward=critref_ft

== Works Cited ==
*Prior, Lily. "''Breakfast At Tiffany's'' Review."
18 March 2006.<http://www.jp41.dial.pipex.com/R735.HTML>

*Kimbofo. "''At Breakfast Tiffany's'' Reviews."
''Reading Matters''. 17 January 2006. 18 March 2006.
<http://kimbofo.typepad.com/readingmatters/2006/01/breakfast_at_ti.html>

*Pugh, Tison.: Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's.
Explicator (Helen Dwight Reid Educational Foundation, Washington, DC) (61:1) [Fall 2002] , p.51-53.

*Capote, Truman. ''Breakfast At Tiffany's''. New York: Random House, Inc, 1958.

*Cash, Matthew. [http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bcash/criticalanalysis.html A Travelin' Through the Pastures of the Sky: A Critical Analysis of Breakfast at Tiffany's]. 1996.

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Breakfast at Tiffany's Section 3

2006-03-22T18:08:16Z

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== Summary ==

The day after Holly's party the narrator discovers that Mag Wildwood is still at Holly's apartment. He gets a strange Latin visitor looking for Mag, then sees the man carrying suitcases to the house. Later, the narrator hears Holly and Mag talking about the war. Holly tells about her brother being a soldier and how he's stupid. Mag is a proud American who is engaged to a Brazilian named Jose. Jose is a politician who wants to become the president of Brazil. Mag wants him to give up politics and live in America.

When the narrator goes down to check his mail, he notices that the card on Holly's box is changed to say that Miss Golightly and Miss Wildwood are now traveling together. In his box is a letter from a university review who wants to publish his story. He shows Holly, who advises him not to let them publish if they can't pay. Then, when she ses how excited he is about it, she decides to take him out to lunch and celebrate. As she gets ready, the narrator notices the packed suitcases and says that her room reminds him of a girl's gym. The whole time, Holly is talking about Mag and her engagement. She finally congratulates him on the story.

== Notes ==

*'''Totter''' (47)- To move unsteadily with a rocking motion.

*'''“Bully for him”''' (48)- An [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiom idiom] used when something is said that a person does not think the other person deserves praise or admiration for.

*'''Indian summer day''' (48)-a period of sunny, warm weather in autumn, not long before winter that persist for a few days or weeks.

*'''Brazil''' (49)- [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil Brazil] is a formal colony of Portugal, located in South America and is now the 5th largest country in the world.

*'''censoriously''' (49)- Tending to censure, harshly critical.

*'''Portuguese''' (49)- A [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_language Romance language] spoken mainly in Portugal and Brazil.

*'''conventional''' (50)- Ordinary; not unusual or extreme.

*'''argyles''' (51)- Knitted or woven socks in diamond shaped patterns of various colors.

*'''Complacently''' (51)- In a self-satisfied manner.

*'''Sun helmets''' (51)-a light-weight hat that is worn in tropical countries that protects one from the sun.

*'''Misconstrued''' (52)- To misinterpret or mistake the meaning of something.

== Commentary ==
One could suggest that Capote had his own life experiences in mind when writing ''Breakfast at Tiffany’s'' and that he is the [[narrator]]. He modeled the [[character]] of Holly Golightly after six women that he was intrigued with, which were Phoebe Pierce, Gloria Vanderbilt, Carol Marcus, Doris Lilly, Anky Larrabee, and Oona O’Neill (Clarke 64).

In 1964 Capote had written a letter to Alvin Dewey III admitting that Holly was indeed a real girl, but the incidences he writes about her are mostly fictional (Clarke 401). In his later years Capote admits “It’s too bad I don’t like going to bed with women” and further states that he loves attractive and beautiful women only as friends, not lovers (Clarke 93-94). This would explain the basis of how he molded the character of Holly and the relationship between her and the narrator which never becomes sexual. However, many scholars miss the existence of homosexuality in the novella, therefore missing some of the key parts that explains the sexual dynamics (Pugh 51).

The narrator is characterized as having his nose pressed against the glass and wanting to be on the inside staring out (Capote 48). In a conversation with Lawrence Grobel, Capote admits “yes, looking in, seeing something that he wanted to be inside of” (Grobel 88). This is indicative of Capote/the narrator being fascinated with the life style of Holly Golightly.

In Cash's critical analysis he states that Mag is a character who is introduced as having many similar characteristics to Holly. She is tall and attractive, but has a stutter problem. She is engaged to Jose, a Brazilian, and when she talks about her future relationship with him she makes the comment to Holly, "Better you than me (Capote 51)." Holly responds back, "Yes. Better me than you (Capote 51)." This indicates that Holly is attracted to Jose, maybe even more than Mag.

== Study Questions ==
#How is Mag on the verge of pneumonia?
#How does Holly describe her brother Fred?
#Why is the narrator charmed by the Latin (Jose)?
#Where is Jose from?
#What language is spoken in Brazil?
#What does Holly have to say about the letter the narrator receives from the university review regarding his story?
#Why does Holly suggest to the narrator that he not let a small university publish his work?
#Why does the narrator even tell Holly of the plans of the university to publish his story?
#Why does Mag think that it is a useless thing to be President of Brazil?
#How is Holly's room described?
#Why does Holly keep everything packed and ready to go as if she is running from authorities?
#Why does Holly accept Mag as a roommate?

== External Resources ==

*http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/capote.htm

*http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/capote.htm

*http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780679600237

*http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/capote_t.html

*http://lionreference.chadwyck.com/searchFulltext.do?id=BIO002992&divLevel=0&queryId=../session/1142957921_29363&area=ref&forward=critref_ft

== Works Cited ==
*Clarke, Gerald. ''Capote: A Biography''. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1988.

*Grobel, Lawrence. ''Conversations With Capote''. New York: New American Library, 1985.

*Capote,Truman. ''Breakfast at Tiffany's''. New York: Random House Inc., 1958.

*Pugh, Tison. "Capote's BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S." ''Explicator.'' Vol.61 no.1 (2002):51.

*Cash, Matthew M. [http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bcash/critiicalanalysis.html A-Travelin' Through the Pastures of the Sky. A Critical Analysis of ''Breakfast at Tiffany's.] 1996.

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Breakfast at Tiffany's Section 3

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== Summary ==

The day after Holly's party the narrator discovers that Mag Wildwood is still at Holly's apartment. He gets a strange Latin visitor looking for Mag, then sees the man carrying suitcases to the house. Later, the narrator hears Holly and Mag talking about the war. Holly tells about her brother being a soldier and how he's stupid. Mag is a proud American who is engaged to a Brazilian named Jose. Jose is a politician who wants to become the president of Brazil. Mag wants him to give up politics and live in America.

When the narrator goes down to check his mail, he notices that the card on Holly's box is changed to say that Miss Golightly and Miss Wildwood are now traveling together. In his box is a letter from a university review who wants to publish his story. He shows Holly, who advises him not to let them publish if they can't pay. Then, when she ses how excited he is about it, she decides to take him out to lunch and celebrate. As she gets ready, the narrator notices the packed suitcases and says that her room reminds him of a girl's gym. The whole time, Holly is talking about Mag and her engagement. She finally congratulates him on the story.

== Notes ==

*'''Totter''' (47)- To move unsteadily with a rocking motion.

*'''“Bully for him”''' (48)- An [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiom idiom] used when something is said that a person does not think the other person deserves praise or admiration for.

*'''Indian summer day''' (48)-a period of sunny, warm weather in autumn, not long before winter that persist for a few days or weeks.

*'''Brazil''' (49)- [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil Brazil] is a formal colony of Portugal, located in South America and is now the 5th largest country in the world.

*'''censoriously''' (49)- Tending to censure, harshly critical.

*'''Portuguese''' (49)- A [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_language Romance language] spoken mainly in Portugal and Brazil.

*'''conventional''' (50)- Ordinary; not unusual or extreme.

*'''argyles''' (51)- Knitted or woven socks in diamond shaped patterns of various colors.

*'''Complacently''' (51)- In a self-satisfied manner.

*'''Sun helmets''' (51)-a light-weight hat that is worn in tropical countries that protects one from the sun.

*'''Misconstrued''' (52)- To misinterpret or mistake the meaning of something.

== Commentary ==
One could suggest that Capote had his own life experiences in mind when writing ''Breakfast at Tiffany’s'' and that he is the [[narrator]]. He modeled the [[character]] of Holly Golightly after six women that he was intrigued with, which were Phoebe Pierce, Gloria Vanderbilt, Carol Marcus, Doris Lilly, Anky Larrabee, and Oona O’Neill (Clarke 64).

In 1964 Capote had written a letter to Alvin Dewey III admitting that Holly was indeed a real girl, but the incidences he writes about her are mostly fictional (Clarke 401). In his later years Capote admits “It’s too bad I don’t like going to bed with women” and further states that he loves attractive and beautiful women only as friends, not lovers (Clarke 93-94). This would explain the basis of how he molded the character of Holly and the relationship between her and the narrator which never becomes sexual.

The narrator is characterized as having his nose pressed against the glass and wanting to be on the inside staring out (Capote 48). In a conversation with Lawrence Grobel, Capote admits “yes, looking in, seeing something that he wanted to be inside of” (Grobel 88). This is indicative of Capote/the narrator being fascinated with the life style of Holly Golightly.

In Cash's critical analysis he states that Mag is a character who is introduced as having many similar characteristics to Holly. She is tall and attractive, but has a stutter problem. She is engaged to Jose, a Brazilian, and when she talks about her future relationship with him she makes the comment to Holly, "Better you than me (Capote 51)." Holly responds back, "Yes. Better me than you (Capote 51)." This indicates that Holly is attracted to Jose, maybe even more than Mag.

== Study Questions ==
#How is Mag on the verge of pneumonia?
#How does Holly describe her brother Fred?
#Why is the narrator charmed by the Latin (Jose)?
#Where is Jose from?
#What language is spoken in Brazil?
#What does Holly have to say about the letter the narrator receives from the university review regarding his story?
#Why does Holly suggest to the narrator that he not let a small university publish his work?
#Why does the narrator even tell Holly of the plans of the university to publish his story?
#Why does Mag think that it is a useless thing to be President of Brazil?
#How is Holly's room described?
#Why does Holly keep everything packed and ready to go as if she is running from authorities?
#Why does Holly accept Mag as a roommate?

== External Resources ==

*http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/capote.htm

*http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/capote.htm

*http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780679600237

*http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/capote_t.html

*http://lionreference.chadwyck.com/searchFulltext.do?id=BIO002992&divLevel=0&queryId=../session/1142957921_29363&area=ref&forward=critref_ft

== Works Cited ==
*Clarke, Gerald. ''Capote: A Biography''. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1988.

*Grobel, Lawrence. ''Conversations With Capote''. New York: New American Library, 1985.

*Capote,Truman. ''Breakfast at Tiffany's''. New York: Random House Inc., 1958.

*Pugh, Tison. "Capote's BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S." ''Explicator.'' Vol.61 no.1 (2002):51.

*Cash, Matthew M. [http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bcash/critiicalanalysis.html A-Travelin' Through the Pastures of the Sky. A Critical Analysis of ''Breakfast at Tiffany's.] 1996.

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Breakfast at Tiffany's Section 3

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== Summary ==

The day after Holly's party the narrator discovers that Mag Wildwood is still at Holly's apartment. He gets a strange Latin visitor looking for Mag, then sees the man carrying suitcases to the house. Later, the narrator hears Holly and Mag talking about the war. Holly tells about her brother being a soldier and how he's stupid. Mag is a proud American who is engaged to a Brazilian named Jose. Jose is a politician who wants to become the president of Brazil. Mag wants him to give up politics and live in America.

When the narrator goes down to check his mail, he notices that the card on Holly's box is changed to say that Miss Golightly and Miss Wildwood are now traveling together. In his box is a letter from a university review who wants to publish his story. He shows Holly, who advises him not to let them publish if they can't pay. Then, when she ses how excited he is about it, she decides to take him out to lunch and celebrate. As she gets ready, the narrator notices the packed suitcases and says that her room reminds him of a girl's gym. The whole time, Holly is talking about Mag and her engagement. She finally congratulates him on the story.

== Notes ==

*'''Totter''' (47)- To move unsteadily with a rocking motion.

*'''“Bully for him”''' (48)- An [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiom idiom] used when something is said that a person does not think the other person deserves praise or admiration for.

*'''Indian summer day''' (48)-a period of sunny, warm weather in autumn, not long before winter that persist for a few days or weeks.

*'''Brazil''' (49)- [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil Brazil] is a formal colony of Portugal, located in South America and is now the 5th largest country in the world.

*'''censoriously''' (49)- Tending to censure, harshly critical.

*'''Portuguese''' (49)- A [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_language Romance language] spoken mainly in Portugal and Brazil.

*'''conventional''' (50)- Ordinary; not unusual or extreme.

*'''argyles''' (51)- Knitted or woven socks in diamond shaped patterns of various colors.

*'''Complacently''' (51)- In a self-satisfied manner.

*'''Sun helmets''' (51)-a light-weight hat that is worn in tropical countries that protects one from the sun.

*'''Misconstrued''' (52)- To misinterpret or mistake the meaning of something.

== Commentary ==
One could suggest that Capote had his own life experiences in mind when writing ''Breakfast at Tiffany’s'' and that he is the [[narrator]]. He modeled the [[character]] of Holly Golightly after six women that he was intrigued with, which were Phoebe Pierce, Gloria Vanderbilt, Carol Marcus, Doris Lilly, Anky Larrabee, and Oona O’Neill (Clarke 64).

In 1964 Capote had written a letter to Alvin Dewey III admitting that Holly was indeed a real girl, but the incidences he writes about her are mostly fictional (Clarke 401). In his later years Capote admits “It’s too bad I don’t like going to bed with women” and further states that he loves attractive and beautiful women only as friends, not lovers (Clarke 93-94). This would explain the basis of how he molded the character of Holly and the relationship between her and the narrator which never becomes sexual.

The narrator is characterized as having his nose pressed against the glass and wanting to be on the inside staring out (Capote 48). In a conversation with Lawrence Grobel, Capote admits “yes, looking in, seeing something that he wanted to be inside of” (Grobel 88). This is indicative of Capote/the narrator being fascinated with the life style of Holly Golightly.

In Cash's critical analysis he states that Mag is a character who is introduced as having many similar characteristics to Holly. She is tall and attractive, but has a stutter problem. She is engaged to Jose, a Brazilian, and when she talks about her future relationship with him she makes the comment to Holly, "Better you than me (Capote 51)." Holly responds back, "Yes. Better me than you (Capote 51)." This indicates that Holly is attracted to Jose, maybe even more than Mag.

== Study Questions ==
#How is Mag on the verge of pneumonia?
#How does Holly describe her brother Fred?
#Why is the narrator charmed by the Latin (Jose)?
#Where is Jose from?
#What language is spoken in Brazil?
#What does Holly have to say about the letter the narrator receives from the university review regarding his story?
#Why does Holly suggest to the narrator that he not let a small university publish his work?
#Why does the narrator even tell Holly of the plans of the university to publish his story?
#Why does Mag think that it is a useless thing to be President of Brazil?
#How is Holly's room described?
#Why does Holly keep everything packed and ready to go as if she is running from authorities?
#Why does Holly accept Mag as a roommate?

== External Resources ==

== Works Cited ==
*Clarke, Gerald. ''Capote: A Biography''. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1988.

*Grobel, Lawrence. ''Conversations With Capote''. New York: New American Library, 1985.

*Capote,Truman. ''Breakfast at Tiffany's''. New York: Random House Inc., 1958.

*Cash, Matthew M. [http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bcash/critiicalanalysis.html A-Travelin' Through the Pastures of the Sky. A Critical Analysis of ''Breakfast at Tiffany's.] 1996.

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Breakfast at Tiffany's Section 3

2006-03-22T15:44:59Z

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== Summary ==

The day after Holly's party the narrator discovers that Mag Wildwood is still at Holly's apartment. He gets a strange Latin visitor looking for Mag, then sees the man carrying suitcases to the house. Later, the narrator hears Holly and Mag talking about the war. Holly tells about her brother being a soldier and how he's stupid. Mag is a proud American who is engaged to a Brazilian named Jose. Jose is a politician who wants to become the president of Brazil. Mag wants him to give up politics and live in America.

When the narrator goes down to check his mail, he notices that the card on Holly's box is changed to say that Miss Golightly and Miss Wildwood are now traveling together. In his box is a letter from a university review who wants to publish his story. He shows Holly, who advises him not to let them publish if they can't pay. Then, when she ses how excited he is about it, she decides to take him out to lunch and celebrate. As she gets ready, the narrator notices the packed suitcases and says that her room reminds him of a girl's gym. The whole time, Holly is talking about Mag and her engagement. She finally congratulates him on the story.

== Notes ==

*'''Totter''' (47)- To move unsteadily with a rocking motion.

*'''“Bully for him”''' (48)- An [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiom idiom] used when something is said that a person does not think the other person deserves praise or admiration for.

*'''Indian summer day''' (48)-a period of sunny, warm weather in autumn, not long before winter that persist for a few days or weeks.

*'''Brazil''' (49)- [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil Brazil] is a formal colony of Portugal, located in South America and is now the 5th largest country in the world.

*'''censoriously''' (49)- Tending to censure, harshly critical.

*'''Portuguese''' (49)- A [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_language Romance language] spoken mainly in Portugal and Brazil.

*'''conventional''' (50)- Ordinary; not unusual or extreme.

*'''argyles''' (51)- Knitted or woven socks in diamond shaped patterns of various colors.

*'''Complacently''' (51)- In a self-satisfied manner.

*'''Sun helmets''' (51)-a light-weight hat that is worn in tropical countries that protects one from the sun.

*'''Misconstrued''' (52)- To misinterpret or mistake the meaning of something.

== Commentary ==
One could suggest that Capote had his own life experiences in mind when writing ''Breakfast at Tiffany’s'' and that he is the [[narrator]]. He modeled the [[character]] of Holly Golightly after six women that he was intrigued with, which were Phoebe Pierce, Gloria Vanderbilt, Carol Marcus, Doris Lilly, Anky Larrabee, and Oona O’Neill (Clarke 64).

In 1964 Capote had written a letter to Alvin Dewey III admitting that Holly was indeed a real girl, but the incidences he writes about her are mostly fictional (Clarke 401). In his later years Capote admits “It’s too bad I don’t like going to bed with women” and further states that he loves attractive and beautiful women only as friends, not lovers (Clarke 93-94). This would explain the basis of how he molded the character of Holly and the relationship between her and the narrator which never becomes sexual.

The narrator is characterized as having his nose pressed against the glass and wanting to be on the inside staring out (Capote 48). In a conversation with Lawrence Grobel, Capote admits “yes, looking in, seeing something that he wanted to be inside of” (Grobel 88). This is indicative of Capote/the narrator being fascinated with the life style of Holly Golightly.

In Cash's critical analysis he states that Mag is a character who is introduced as having many similar characteristics to Holly. She is tall and attractive, but has a stutter problem. She is engaged to Jose, a Brazilian, and when she talks about her future relationship with him she makes the comment to Holly, "Better you than me (Capote 51)." Holly responds back, "Yes. Better me than you (Capote 51)." This indicates that Holly is attracted to Jose, maybe even more than Mag.

== Study Questions ==
#How is Mag on the verge of pneumonia?
#How does Holly describe her brother Fred?
#Why is the narrator charmed by the Latin (Jose)?
#Where is Jose from?
#What language is spoken in Brazil?
#What does Holly have to say about the letter the narrator receives from the university review regarding his story?
#Why does Holly suggest to the narrator that he not let a small university publish his work?
#Why does the narrator even tell Holly of the plans of the university to publish his story?
#Why does Mag think that it is a useless thing to be President of Brazil?
#How is Holly's room described?
#Why does Holly keep everything packed and ready to go as if she is running from authorities?
#Why does Holly accept Mag as a roommate?

== External Resources ==

== Works Cited ==
*Clarke, Gerald. ''Capote: A Biography''. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1988.

*Grobel, Lawrence. ''Conversations With Capote''. New York: New American Library, 1985.

*Capote,Truman. ''Breakfast at Tiffany's''. New York: Random House Inc., 1958.

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Truman Capote

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[[Image:Capote.jpg|thumb|Truman Capote]]
==Major Works==

===Novels===
*[http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780679643227''Other Voices, Other Rooms''] (1948)- Captote's first novel
* ''[[Breakfast at Tiffany's]]'' (1958)
*[http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780679600237''In Cold Blood''] (1966)
* ''The Thanksgiving Visitor'' (1968)
*''Answered Prayers'' (1987)- an unfinished novel

===Short Stories===
* ''The Walls Are Cold'' (1943)
* ''A Mink of One's Own'' (1944)
* ''The Shape of Things'' (1944)
* ''Miriam'' (1945)
* ''A Tree of Night'' (1949)
* [http://www.randomhouse.com/vintage/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780679745662 ''Music for Chameleons]'' (1980)

===Plays and Screenplays===
*[http://www.randomhouse.com/vintage/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780679745570''The Grass Harp''] (1952)
*[http://lionreference.chadwyck.com.ezproxy.maconstate.edu/searchFulltext.do?id=R01530960&divLevel=0&queryId=../session/1142821811_490&area=abell&forward=critref_ft''Beat the Devil''] (1954)
* ''Turn of the Screw'' (1960)
* ''The Innocents'' (1961)
* ''A Christmas Memory'' (1966)
* ''Among The Paths To Eden'' (1967)
* ''Behind Prison Walls'' (1972)
* ''Crimewatch'' (1973)

===Others===
* ''House of Flowers'' (1954)- musical
* ''In Cold Blood'' (1967)- the movie
* ''The Glass House'' (1972)
* ''Local Color'' (1950)- journalistic pieces
*''MARILYN MONROE: PHOTOGRAPHS'' 1945-1962, 1994

[[Image:Capote truman young.jpg|thumb|Truman Capote]]

==Biography==
Capote was born in New Orleans on September 30, 1924 to Archulus Persons and Lillie Mae Faulk (Persons) with his birth name being Truman Streckfus Persons. The name Streckfus derived from the Streckfus Company that his father was currently employed with. He was born in the Touro Infirmary. During that time his parents lived in the Monteleone Hotel in New Orleans (Long 133). He died August 25, 1984 , in Los Angeles at Joanna Carson‘s home, previous wife of Johnny Carson (Krebs). He adopted the Capote surname when his mother divorced Archulus Persons and remarried Joe Capote. He had a difficult childhood with a great absence of love (Grobel 47). His mother committed suicide on January 4, 1954 by overdosing on [http://www.bankhead.net/BoozeAndDrugs/Drugs/seconal.html Seconal] (Clarke 64). Capote and his mother both admitted that she was not suited for motherhood. In the late 1970’s, Capote was treated for a drug and alcohol addiction and suffered from [http://muweb.millersville.edu/~muathtrn/trig-neu/Trigeminal_Neuralgia.htm tic doloroux] (Krebs). Capote had written a lot of [http://www.randomhouse.com/vintage/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780679751823''Answered Prayers''] while under the influence of cocaine. He stopped abusing cocaine when he realized that it made him too nervous to continue writing (Grobel 221). Capote’s best friend growing up was his neighbor, Nelle Harper Lee, the author of ''To Kill a Mockingbird''. Lee based Dill Harris’s character upon Capote. Capote had previously based the character of Idabel Tompkins in [http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/catalog/display.pperl?isdn=9780679643227 ''Other Voices, Other Rooms''] on Nelle Harper Lee. At the age of seventeen, Capote went to work for two years at ''The New Yorker''. During those two years he wrote his first unpublished novel,
[http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780812975932''Summer Crossing''](Krebs).

==Awards==
* 1946 - ''[[O. Henry]] Memorial Award'' - established in 1918 to be given to the best stories published in magazines - for the short story ''Miriam''.

==Timeline==
* 1924 - On September 30, Truman Streckfus was born in New Orleans, LA, to Lilie Mae Faulk and Archulus Persons.

* 1930 - He is left with elderly cousins in Monroeville, Alabama.

* 1931 - His mother and father (Arch Persons) divorce on November 9th and his mother moves to New York.

* 1932 - His mother marries Joe Capote and brings Truman to live in New York.

* 1935 - He is adopted by his stepfather on February 14th.

* 1939 - He and his family move to Greenwich, Connecticut, where he attends Greenwich High School.

* 1942 - After dropping out of a high school in Greenwich, CT, Capote went to work for ''The New Yorker.'' "He started out in the accounting department, was transfered to the art department where he catalogued cartoons and clipped newspapers, and then was moved up to write items for the column 'The Talk of the Town' (Garson 3). In the same year, at the age of seventeen, he got his first stories accepted for publication.

* 1946 - Capote was accepted into Yaddo, a writers’ colony in New York (Plimpton 51); won the ''O'Henry Award'' for the short story "Miriam".

* 1948 - The year Capote's first novel - ''[[Other Voices, Other Rooms]]'' - was published. Despite the opinions both in favor and agaisnt it, the novel became a success and it instantly brought fame to its author, who was then only in his early twenties.

* 1949 - ''[[A Tree of Night and Other Stories]]'' was published. Capote labels it as the beginning of the second cycle in his development as a writer.

* 1954 - The first important film work, a screenplay ''[[Beat the Devil]]'', was written in collaboration with John Huston, a Hollywood director.

* 1958 - Capote reader's most favorite story - ''Breakfast at Tiffany's'', which ended the ten-year period of the sencond cycle - was published.

* 1966 - ''[[In Cold Blood]]'' appeared in print. It was an innovative hybrid of journalistic fact and creative fiction. This novel marked the peak in Capote's career. Capote hosted a masked ball for approximately five hundred of his closest friends in New York at the Plaza Hotel.

* 1975 - He allowed ''Esquire'' magazine to print portions of his unfinished novel, ''Answered Prayers'' as an attempt to prove that he was healthy and not an alcoholic or drug addict.

* 1980 - Capote published the last work of his life entitled ''[[Music for Chameleons]]''.

* 1984 - The writer died in Bel-Air, CA, on August 25.

==Additional Reading about the Author==

*''Capote : A Biography'' by Gerald Clarke

*[http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/capote_t.html PBS: Truman Capote]

*[http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/LitRC?vrsn=3&OP=contains&locID=maco12153&srchtp=athr&ca=1&c=3&ste=6&tab=1&tbst=arp&ai=15706&n=10&docNum=H1100130000&ST=capote&bConts=16047#FurtherReadingsSection Truman Capote ]

*[http://lionreference.chadwyck.com/searchFulltext.do?id=BIO002992&divLevel=0&queryId=../session/1142957921_29363&area=ref&forward=critref_ft Truman Capote Biography]

*[http://www.capotebio.com Truman Capote Abstract]

==Works Cited==

[[Category:Literature]]
* Clarke, Gerald, ed. ''Too Brief a Treat: The Letters of Truman Capote''. New York: Random House, 2004.
* Garson, Helen S. ''Truman Capote.'' New York, Frederick Ungar Publishing Co. 1980.
* Grobel, Lawrence. ''Conversations with Capote''. New York: New American Library. 1985.
* Krebs, Albin. “Truman Capote Is Dead at 59; Novelist of Style and Clarity.” ''New York Times'' 26 Aug. 1984, sec. L1+
* Liukkonen, Petri."Truman Capote".Litweb.[http://www.biblion.com/litweb/biogs/capote_truman.html Truman Capote] 19 March 2006
* Long, Judy. ''Literary New Orleans''. Georgia: Hill Street Press. 1999.
* Plimpton, George. ''Truman Capote: In Which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintances, and Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career''. New York: Doubleday Dell Publishing Group. 1997.
*P[limpton], G[eorge] A. (ed.).: [http://lionreference.chadwyck.com.ezproxy.maconstate.edu/searchFulltext.do?id=R01530960&divLevel=0&queryId=../session/1142821811_490&area=abell&forward=critref_ft''Truman Capote, screenwriter: Beat the Devil'']. Paris Review (Flushing, NY) (38:138) [Spring 1996] , p.125.

Truman Capote

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[[Image:Capote.jpg|thumb|Truman Capote]]
==Major Works==

===Novels===
*[http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780679643227''Other Voices, Other Rooms''] (1948)
* ''[[Breakfast at Tiffany's]]'' (1958)
*[http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780679600237''In Cold Blood''] (1966)
* ''The Thanksgiving Visitor'' (1968)
*''Answered Prayers'' (1987)- an unfinished novel

===Short Stories===
* ''The Walls Are Cold'' (1943)
* ''A Mink of One's Own'' (1944)
* ''The Shape of Things'' (1944)
* ''Miriam'' (1945)
* ''A Tree of Night'' (1949)
* [http://www.randomhouse.com/vintage/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780679745662 ''Music for Chameleons]'' (1980)

===Plays and Screenplays===
*[http://www.randomhouse.com/vintage/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780679745570''The Grass Harp''] (1952)
*[http://lionreference.chadwyck.com.ezproxy.maconstate.edu/searchFulltext.do?id=R01530960&divLevel=0&queryId=../session/1142821811_490&area=abell&forward=critref_ft''Beat the Devil''] (1954)
* ''Turn of the Screw'' (1960)
* ''The Innocents'' (1961)
* ''A Christmas Memory'' (1966)
* ''Among The Paths To Eden'' (1967)
* ''Behind Prison Walls'' (1972)
* ''Crimewatch'' (1973)

===Others===
* ''House of Flowers'' (1954)- musical
* ''In Cold Blood'' (1967)- the movie
* ''The Glass House'' (1972)
* ''Local Color'' (1950)- journalistic pieces
*''MARILYN MONROE: PHOTOGRAPHS'' 1945-1962, 1994

[[Image:Capote truman young.jpg|thumb|Truman Capote]]

==Biography==
Capote was born in New Orleans on September 30, 1924 to Archulus Persons and Lillie Mae Faulk (Persons) with his birth name being Truman Streckfus Persons. The name Streckfus derived from the Streckfus Company that his father was currently employed with. He was born in the Touro Infirmary. During that time his parents lived in the Monteleone Hotel in New Orleans (Long 133). He died August 25, 1984 , in Los Angeles at Joanna Carson‘s home, previous wife of Johnny Carson (Krebs). He adopted the Capote surname when his mother divorced Archulus Persons and remarried Joe Capote. He had a difficult childhood with a great absence of love (Grobel 47). His mother committed suicide on January 4, 1954 by overdosing on [http://www.bankhead.net/BoozeAndDrugs/Drugs/seconal.html Seconal] (Clarke 64). Capote and his mother both admitted that she was not suited for motherhood. In the late 1970’s, Capote was treated for a drug and alcohol addiction and suffered from [http://muweb.millersville.edu/~muathtrn/trig-neu/Trigeminal_Neuralgia.htm tic doloroux] (Krebs). Capote had written a lot of [http://www.randomhouse.com/vintage/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780679751823''Answered Prayers''] while under the influence of cocaine. He stopped abusing cocaine when he realized that it made him too nervous to continue writing (Grobel 221). Capote’s best friend growing up was his neighbor, Nelle Harper Lee, the author of ''To Kill a Mockingbird''. Lee based Dill Harris’s character upon Capote. Capote had previously based the character of Idabel Tompkins in [http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/catalog/display.pperl?isdn=9780679643227 ''Other Voices, Other Rooms''] on Nelle Harper Lee. At the age of seventeen, Capote went to work for two years at ''The New Yorker''. During those two years he wrote his first unpublished novel,
[http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780812975932''Summer Crossing''](Krebs).

==Awards==
* 1946 - ''[[O. Henry]] Memorial Award'' - established in 1918 to be given to the best stories published in magazines - for the short story ''Miriam''.

==Timeline==
* 1924 - On September 30, Truman Streckfus was born in New Orleans, LA, to Lilie Mae Faulk and Archulus Persons.

* 1930 - He is left with elderly cousins in Monroeville, Alabama.

* 1931 - His mother and father (Arch Persons) divorce on November 9th and his mother moves to New York.

* 1932 - His mother marries Joe Capote and brings Truman to live in New York.

* 1935 - He is adopted by his stepfather on February 14th.

* 1939 - He and his family move to Greenwich, Connecticut, where he attends Greenwich High School.

* 1942 - After dropping out of a high school in Greenwich, CT, Capote went to work for ''The New Yorker.'' "He started out in the accounting department, was transfered to the art department where he catalogued cartoons and clipped newspapers, and then was moved up to write items for the column 'The Talk of the Town' (Garson 3). In the same year, at the age of seventeen, he got his first stories accepted for publication.

* 1946 - Capote was accepted into Yaddo, a writers’ colony in New York (Plimpton 51); won the ''O'Henry Award'' for the short story "Miriam".

* 1948 - The year Capote's first novel - ''[[Other Voices, Other Rooms]]'' - was published. Despite the opinions both in favor and agaisnt it, the novel became a success and it instantly brought fame to its author, who was then only in his early twenties.

* 1949 - ''[[A Tree of Night and Other Stories]]'' was published. Capote labels it as the beginning of the second cycle in his development as a writer.

* 1954 - The first important film work, a screenplay ''[[Beat the Devil]]'', was written in collaboration with John Huston, a Hollywood director.

* 1958 - Capote reader's most favorite story - ''Breakfast at Tiffany's'', which ended the ten-year period of the sencond cycle - was published.

* 1966 - ''[[In Cold Blood]]'' appeared in print. It was an innovative hybrid of journalistic fact and creative fiction. This novel marked the peak in Capote's career. Capote hosted a masked ball for approximately five hundred of his closest friends in New York at the Plaza Hotel.

* 1975 - He allowed ''Esquire'' magazine to print portions of his unfinished novel, ''Answered Prayers'' as an attempt to prove that he was healthy and not an alcoholic or drug addict.

* 1980 - Capote published the last work of his life entitled ''[[Music for Chameleons]]''.

* 1984 - The writer died in Bel-Air, CA, on August 25.

==Additional Reading about the Author==

*''Capote : A Biography'' by Gerald Clarke

*[http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/capote_t.html PBS: Truman Capote]

*[http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/LitRC?vrsn=3&OP=contains&locID=maco12153&srchtp=athr&ca=1&c=3&ste=6&tab=1&tbst=arp&ai=15706&n=10&docNum=H1100130000&ST=capote&bConts=16047#FurtherReadingsSection Truman Capote ]

*[http://lionreference.chadwyck.com/searchFulltext.do?id=BIO002992&divLevel=0&queryId=../session/1142957921_29363&area=ref&forward=critref_ft Truman Capote Biography]

*[http://www.capotebio.com Truman Capote Abstract]

==Works Cited==

[[Category:Literature]]
* Clarke, Gerald, ed. ''Too Brief a Treat: The Letters of Truman Capote''. New York: Random House, 2004.
* Garson, Helen S. ''Truman Capote.'' New York, Frederick Ungar Publishing Co. 1980.
* Grobel, Lawrence. ''Conversations with Capote''. New York: New American Library. 1985.
* Krebs, Albin. “Truman Capote Is Dead at 59; Novelist of Style and Clarity.” ''New York Times'' 26 Aug. 1984, sec. L1+
* Liukkonen, Petri."Truman Capote".Litweb.[http://www.biblion.com/litweb/biogs/capote_truman.html Truman Capote] 19 March 2006
* Long, Judy. ''Literary New Orleans''. Georgia: Hill Street Press. 1999.
* Plimpton, George. ''Truman Capote: In Which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintances, and Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career''. New York: Doubleday Dell Publishing Group. 1997.
*P[limpton], G[eorge] A. (ed.).: [http://lionreference.chadwyck.com.ezproxy.maconstate.edu/searchFulltext.do?id=R01530960&divLevel=0&queryId=../session/1142821811_490&area=abell&forward=critref_ft''Truman Capote, screenwriter: Beat the Devil'']. Paris Review (Flushing, NY) (38:138) [Spring 1996] , p.125.

Truman Capote

2006-03-22T15:40:40Z

Rbeard: /* Plays and Screenplays */

[[Image:Capote.jpg|thumb|Truman Capote]]
==Major Works==

===Novels===
*[http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780679643227''Other Voices, Other Rooms''] (1948)
* ''[[Breakfast at Tiffany's]]'' (1958)
*[http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780679600237''In Cold Blood''] (1966)
* ''The Thanksgiving Visitor'' (1968)
*''Answered Prayers'' (1987)- an unfinished novel

===Short Stories===
* ''The Walls Are Cold'' (1943)
* ''A Mink of One's Own'' (1944)
* ''The Shape of Things'' (1944)
* ''Miriam'' (1945)
* ''A Tree of Night'' (1949)
* [http://www.randomhouse.com/vintage/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780679745662 ''Music for Chameleons]'' (1980)

===Plays and Screenplays===
*[http://www.randomhouse.com/vintage/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780679745570''The Grass Harp''] (1952)
*[http://lionreference.chadwyck.com.ezproxy.maconstate.edu/searchFulltext.do?id=R01530960&divLevel=0&queryId=../session/1142821811_490&area=abell&forward=critref_ft''Beat the Devil''] (1954)
* ''Turn of the Screw'' (1960)
* ''The Innocents'' (1961)
* ''A Christmas Memory'' (1966)
* ''Among The Paths To Eden'' (1967)
* ''Behind Prison Walls'' (1972)
* ''Crimewatch'' (1973)

===Others===
*''House of Flowers'' (1954)- musical
* ''In Cold Blood'' (1967)- the movie
*''The Glass House'' (1972)
*''MARILYN MONROE: PHOTOGRAPHS'' 1945-1962, 1994

[[Image:Capote truman young.jpg|thumb|Truman Capote]]
==Biography==
Capote was born in New Orleans on September 30, 1924 to Archulus Persons and Lillie Mae Faulk (Persons) with his birth name being Truman Streckfus Persons. The name Streckfus derived from the Streckfus Company that his father was currently employed with. He was born in the Touro Infirmary. During that time his parents lived in the Monteleone Hotel in New Orleans (Long 133). He died August 25, 1984 , in Los Angeles at Joanna Carson‘s home, previous wife of Johnny Carson (Krebs). He adopted the Capote surname when his mother divorced Archulus Persons and remarried Joe Capote. He had a difficult childhood with a great absence of love (Grobel 47). His mother committed suicide on January 4, 1954 by overdosing on [http://www.bankhead.net/BoozeAndDrugs/Drugs/seconal.html Seconal] (Clarke 64). Capote and his mother both admitted that she was not suited for motherhood. In the late 1970’s, Capote was treated for a drug and alcohol addiction and suffered from [http://muweb.millersville.edu/~muathtrn/trig-neu/Trigeminal_Neuralgia.htm tic doloroux] (Krebs). Capote had written a lot of [http://www.randomhouse.com/vintage/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780679751823''Answered Prayers''] while under the influence of cocaine. He stopped abusing cocaine when he realized that it made him too nervous to continue writing (Grobel 221). Capote’s best friend growing up was his neighbor, Nelle Harper Lee, the author of ''To Kill a Mockingbird''. Lee based Dill Harris’s character upon Capote. Capote had previously based the character of Idabel Tompkins in [http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/catalog/display.pperl?isdn=9780679643227 ''Other Voices, Other Rooms''] on Nelle Harper Lee. At the age of seventeen, Capote went to work for two years at ''The New Yorker''. During those two years he wrote his first unpublished novel,
[http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780812975932''Summer Crossing''](Krebs).

==Awards==
* 1946 - ''[[O. Henry]] Memorial Award'' - established in 1918 to be given to the best stories published in magazines - for the short story ''Miriam''.

==Timeline==
* 1924 - On September 30, Truman Streckfus was born in New Orleans, LA, to Lilie Mae Faulk and Archulus Persons.

* 1930 - He is left with elderly cousins in Monroeville, Alabama.

* 1931 - His mother and father (Arch Persons) divorce on November 9th and his mother moves to New York.

* 1932 - His mother marries Joe Capote and brings Truman to live in New York.

* 1935 - He is adopted by his stepfather on February 14th.

* 1939 - He and his family move to Greenwich, Connecticut, where he attends Greenwich High School.

* 1942 - After dropping out of a high school in Greenwich, CT, Capote went to work for ''The New Yorker.'' "He started out in the accounting department, was transfered to the art department where he catalogued cartoons and clipped newspapers, and then was moved up to write items for the column 'The Talk of the Town' (Garson 3). In the same year, at the age of seventeen, he got his first stories accepted for publication.

* 1946 - Capote was accepted into Yaddo, a writers’ colony in New York (Plimpton 51); won the ''O'Henry Award'' for the short story "Miriam".

* 1948 - The year Capote's first novel - ''[[Other Voices, Other Rooms]]'' - was published. Despite the opinions both in favor and agaisnt it, the novel became a success and it instantly brought fame to its author, who was then only in his early twenties.

* 1949 - ''[[A Tree of Night and Other Stories]]'' was published. Capote labels it as the beginning of the second cycle in his development as a writer.

* 1954 - The first important film work, a screenplay ''[[Beat the Devil]]'', was written in collaboration with John Huston, a Hollywood director.

* 1958 - Capote reader's most favorite story - ''Breakfast at Tiffany's'', which ended the ten-year period of the sencond cycle - was published.

* 1966 - ''[[In Cold Blood]]'' appeared in print. It was an innovative hybrid of journalistic fact and creative fiction. This novel marked the peak in Capote's career. Capote hosted a masked ball for approximately five hundred of his closest friends in New York at the Plaza Hotel.

* 1975 - He allowed ''Esquire'' magazine to print portions of his unfinished novel, ''Answered Prayers'' as an attempt to prove that he was healthy and not an alcoholic or drug addict.

* 1980 - Capote published the last work of his life entitled ''[[Music for Chameleons]]''.

* 1984 - The writer died in Bel-Air, CA, on August 25.

==Additional Reading about the Author==

*''Capote : A Biography'' by Gerald Clarke

*[http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/capote_t.html PBS: Truman Capote]

*[http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/LitRC?vrsn=3&OP=contains&locID=maco12153&srchtp=athr&ca=1&c=3&ste=6&tab=1&tbst=arp&ai=15706&n=10&docNum=H1100130000&ST=capote&bConts=16047#FurtherReadingsSection Truman Capote ]

*[http://lionreference.chadwyck.com/searchFulltext.do?id=BIO002992&divLevel=0&queryId=../session/1142957921_29363&area=ref&forward=critref_ft Truman Capote Biography]

*[http://www.capotebio.com Truman Capote Abstract]

==Works Cited==

[[Category:Literature]]
* Clarke, Gerald, ed. ''Too Brief a Treat: The Letters of Truman Capote''. New York: Random House, 2004.
* Garson, Helen S. ''Truman Capote.'' New York, Frederick Ungar Publishing Co. 1980.
* Grobel, Lawrence. ''Conversations with Capote''. New York: New American Library. 1985.
* Krebs, Albin. “Truman Capote Is Dead at 59; Novelist of Style and Clarity.” ''New York Times'' 26 Aug. 1984, sec. L1+
* Liukkonen, Petri."Truman Capote".Litweb.[http://www.biblion.com/litweb/biogs/capote_truman.html Truman Capote] 19 March 2006
* Long, Judy. ''Literary New Orleans''. Georgia: Hill Street Press. 1999.
* Plimpton, George. ''Truman Capote: In Which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintances, and Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career''. New York: Doubleday Dell Publishing Group. 1997.
*P[limpton], G[eorge] A. (ed.).: [http://lionreference.chadwyck.com.ezproxy.maconstate.edu/searchFulltext.do?id=R01530960&divLevel=0&queryId=../session/1142821811_490&area=abell&forward=critref_ft''Truman Capote, screenwriter: Beat the Devil'']. Paris Review (Flushing, NY) (38:138) [Spring 1996] , p.125.

Truman Capote

2006-03-22T15:38:09Z

Rbeard: /* Novels */

[[Image:Capote.jpg|thumb|Truman Capote]]
==Major Works==

===Novels===
*[http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780679643227''Other Voices, Other Rooms''] (1948)
* ''[[Breakfast at Tiffany's]]'' (1958)
*[http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780679600237''In Cold Blood''] (1966)
* ''The Thanksgiving Visitor'' (1968)
*''Answered Prayers'' (1987)- an unfinished novel

===Short Stories===
* ''The Walls Are Cold'' (1943)
* ''A Mink of One's Own'' (1944)
* ''The Shape of Things'' (1944)
* ''Miriam'' (1945)
* ''A Tree of Night'' (1949)
* [http://www.randomhouse.com/vintage/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780679745662 ''Music for Chameleons]'' (1980)

===Plays and Screenplays===
* ''The Innocents'' (1961)
*[http://www.randomhouse.com/vintage/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780679745570''The Grass Harp''] (1952)
*''Crimewatch'' (1973)
*''A Christmas Memory'' (1966)
*''Behind Prison Walls'' (1972)
*''Among The Paths To Eden'' (1967)
*[http://lionreference.chadwyck.com.ezproxy.maconstate.edu/searchFulltext.do?id=R01530960&divLevel=0&queryId=../session/1142821811_490&area=abell&forward=critref_ft''Beat the Devil''] (1954)

===Others===
*''House of Flowers'' (1954)- musical
* ''In Cold Blood'' (1967)- the movie
*''The Glass House'' (1972)
*''MARILYN MONROE: PHOTOGRAPHS'' 1945-1962, 1994

[[Image:Capote truman young.jpg|thumb|Truman Capote]]
==Biography==
Capote was born in New Orleans on September 30, 1924 to Archulus Persons and Lillie Mae Faulk (Persons) with his birth name being Truman Streckfus Persons. The name Streckfus derived from the Streckfus Company that his father was currently employed with. He was born in the Touro Infirmary. During that time his parents lived in the Monteleone Hotel in New Orleans (Long 133). He died August 25, 1984 , in Los Angeles at Joanna Carson‘s home, previous wife of Johnny Carson (Krebs). He adopted the Capote surname when his mother divorced Archulus Persons and remarried Joe Capote. He had a difficult childhood with a great absence of love (Grobel 47). His mother committed suicide on January 4, 1954 by overdosing on [http://www.bankhead.net/BoozeAndDrugs/Drugs/seconal.html Seconal] (Clarke 64). Capote and his mother both admitted that she was not suited for motherhood. In the late 1970’s, Capote was treated for a drug and alcohol addiction and suffered from [http://muweb.millersville.edu/~muathtrn/trig-neu/Trigeminal_Neuralgia.htm tic doloroux] (Krebs). Capote had written a lot of [http://www.randomhouse.com/vintage/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780679751823''Answered Prayers''] while under the influence of cocaine. He stopped abusing cocaine when he realized that it made him too nervous to continue writing (Grobel 221). Capote’s best friend growing up was his neighbor, Nelle Harper Lee, the author of ''To Kill a Mockingbird''. Lee based Dill Harris’s character upon Capote. Capote had previously based the character of Idabel Tompkins in [http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/catalog/display.pperl?isdn=9780679643227 ''Other Voices, Other Rooms''] on Nelle Harper Lee. At the age of seventeen, Capote went to work for two years at ''The New Yorker''. During those two years he wrote his first unpublished novel,
[http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780812975932''Summer Crossing''](Krebs).

==Awards==
* 1946 - ''[[O. Henry]] Memorial Award'' - established in 1918 to be given to the best stories published in magazines - for the short story ''Miriam''.

==Timeline==
* 1924 - On September 30, Truman Streckfus was born in New Orleans, LA, to Lilie Mae Faulk and Archulus Persons.

* 1930 - He is left with elderly cousins in Monroeville, Alabama.

* 1931 - His mother and father (Arch Persons) divorce on November 9th and his mother moves to New York.

* 1932 - His mother marries Joe Capote and brings Truman to live in New York.

* 1935 - He is adopted by his stepfather on February 14th.

* 1939 - He and his family move to Greenwich, Connecticut, where he attends Greenwich High School.

* 1942 - After dropping out of a high school in Greenwich, CT, Capote went to work for ''The New Yorker.'' "He started out in the accounting department, was transfered to the art department where he catalogued cartoons and clipped newspapers, and then was moved up to write items for the column 'The Talk of the Town' (Garson 3). In the same year, at the age of seventeen, he got his first stories accepted for publication.

* 1946 - Capote was accepted into Yaddo, a writers’ colony in New York (Plimpton 51); won the ''O'Henry Award'' for the short story "Miriam".

* 1948 - The year Capote's first novel - ''[[Other Voices, Other Rooms]]'' - was published. Despite the opinions both in favor and agaisnt it, the novel became a success and it instantly brought fame to its author, who was then only in his early twenties.

* 1949 - ''[[A Tree of Night and Other Stories]]'' was published. Capote labels it as the beginning of the second cycle in his development as a writer.

* 1954 - The first important film work, a screenplay ''[[Beat the Devil]]'', was written in collaboration with John Huston, a Hollywood director.

* 1958 - Capote reader's most favorite story - ''Breakfast at Tiffany's'', which ended the ten-year period of the sencond cycle - was published.

* 1966 - ''[[In Cold Blood]]'' appeared in print. It was an innovative hybrid of journalistic fact and creative fiction. This novel marked the peak in Capote's career. Capote hosted a masked ball for approximately five hundred of his closest friends in New York at the Plaza Hotel.

* 1975 - He allowed ''Esquire'' magazine to print portions of his unfinished novel, ''Answered Prayers'' as an attempt to prove that he was healthy and not an alcoholic or drug addict.

* 1980 - Capote published the last work of his life entitled ''[[Music for Chameleons]]''.

* 1984 - The writer died in Bel-Air, CA, on August 25.

==Additional Reading about the Author==

*''Capote : A Biography'' by Gerald Clarke

*[http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/capote_t.html PBS: Truman Capote]

*[http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/LitRC?vrsn=3&OP=contains&locID=maco12153&srchtp=athr&ca=1&c=3&ste=6&tab=1&tbst=arp&ai=15706&n=10&docNum=H1100130000&ST=capote&bConts=16047#FurtherReadingsSection Truman Capote ]

*[http://lionreference.chadwyck.com/searchFulltext.do?id=BIO002992&divLevel=0&queryId=../session/1142957921_29363&area=ref&forward=critref_ft Truman Capote Biography]

*[http://www.capotebio.com Truman Capote Abstract]

==Works Cited==

[[Category:Literature]]
* Clarke, Gerald, ed. ''Too Brief a Treat: The Letters of Truman Capote''. New York: Random House, 2004.
* Garson, Helen S. ''Truman Capote.'' New York, Frederick Ungar Publishing Co. 1980.
* Grobel, Lawrence. ''Conversations with Capote''. New York: New American Library. 1985.
* Krebs, Albin. “Truman Capote Is Dead at 59; Novelist of Style and Clarity.” ''New York Times'' 26 Aug. 1984, sec. L1+
* Liukkonen, Petri."Truman Capote".Litweb.[http://www.biblion.com/litweb/biogs/capote_truman.html Truman Capote] 19 March 2006
* Long, Judy. ''Literary New Orleans''. Georgia: Hill Street Press. 1999.
* Plimpton, George. ''Truman Capote: In Which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintances, and Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career''. New York: Doubleday Dell Publishing Group. 1997.
*P[limpton], G[eorge] A. (ed.).: [http://lionreference.chadwyck.com.ezproxy.maconstate.edu/searchFulltext.do?id=R01530960&divLevel=0&queryId=../session/1142821811_490&area=abell&forward=critref_ft''Truman Capote, screenwriter: Beat the Devil'']. Paris Review (Flushing, NY) (38:138) [Spring 1996] , p.125.

Truman Capote

2006-03-22T15:37:44Z

Rbeard: /* Short Stories */

[[Image:Capote.jpg|thumb|Truman Capote]]
==Major Works==

===Novels===
*[http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780679643227''Other Voices, Other Rooms''] (1948)
* ''[[Breakfast at Tiffany's]]'' (1958)
*[http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780679600237''In Cold Blood''] (1966)
*''Answered Prayers'' (1987)- an unfinished novel

===Short Stories===
* ''The Walls Are Cold'' (1943)
* ''A Mink of One's Own'' (1944)
* ''The Shape of Things'' (1944)
* ''Miriam'' (1945)
* ''A Tree of Night'' (1949)
* [http://www.randomhouse.com/vintage/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780679745662 ''Music for Chameleons]'' (1980)

===Plays and Screenplays===
* ''The Innocents'' (1961)
*[http://www.randomhouse.com/vintage/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780679745570''The Grass Harp''] (1952)
*''Crimewatch'' (1973)
*''A Christmas Memory'' (1966)
*''Behind Prison Walls'' (1972)
*''Among The Paths To Eden'' (1967)
*[http://lionreference.chadwyck.com.ezproxy.maconstate.edu/searchFulltext.do?id=R01530960&divLevel=0&queryId=../session/1142821811_490&area=abell&forward=critref_ft''Beat the Devil''] (1954)

===Others===
*''House of Flowers'' (1954)- musical
* ''In Cold Blood'' (1967)- the movie
*''The Glass House'' (1972)
*''MARILYN MONROE: PHOTOGRAPHS'' 1945-1962, 1994

[[Image:Capote truman young.jpg|thumb|Truman Capote]]
==Biography==
Capote was born in New Orleans on September 30, 1924 to Archulus Persons and Lillie Mae Faulk (Persons) with his birth name being Truman Streckfus Persons. The name Streckfus derived from the Streckfus Company that his father was currently employed with. He was born in the Touro Infirmary. During that time his parents lived in the Monteleone Hotel in New Orleans (Long 133). He died August 25, 1984 , in Los Angeles at Joanna Carson‘s home, previous wife of Johnny Carson (Krebs). He adopted the Capote surname when his mother divorced Archulus Persons and remarried Joe Capote. He had a difficult childhood with a great absence of love (Grobel 47). His mother committed suicide on January 4, 1954 by overdosing on [http://www.bankhead.net/BoozeAndDrugs/Drugs/seconal.html Seconal] (Clarke 64). Capote and his mother both admitted that she was not suited for motherhood. In the late 1970’s, Capote was treated for a drug and alcohol addiction and suffered from [http://muweb.millersville.edu/~muathtrn/trig-neu/Trigeminal_Neuralgia.htm tic doloroux] (Krebs). Capote had written a lot of [http://www.randomhouse.com/vintage/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780679751823''Answered Prayers''] while under the influence of cocaine. He stopped abusing cocaine when he realized that it made him too nervous to continue writing (Grobel 221). Capote’s best friend growing up was his neighbor, Nelle Harper Lee, the author of ''To Kill a Mockingbird''. Lee based Dill Harris’s character upon Capote. Capote had previously based the character of Idabel Tompkins in [http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/catalog/display.pperl?isdn=9780679643227 ''Other Voices, Other Rooms''] on Nelle Harper Lee. At the age of seventeen, Capote went to work for two years at ''The New Yorker''. During those two years he wrote his first unpublished novel,
[http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780812975932''Summer Crossing''](Krebs).

==Awards==
* 1946 - ''[[O. Henry]] Memorial Award'' - established in 1918 to be given to the best stories published in magazines - for the short story ''Miriam''.

==Timeline==
* 1924 - On September 30, Truman Streckfus was born in New Orleans, LA, to Lilie Mae Faulk and Archulus Persons.

* 1930 - He is left with elderly cousins in Monroeville, Alabama.

* 1931 - His mother and father (Arch Persons) divorce on November 9th and his mother moves to New York.

* 1932 - His mother marries Joe Capote and brings Truman to live in New York.

* 1935 - He is adopted by his stepfather on February 14th.

* 1939 - He and his family move to Greenwich, Connecticut, where he attends Greenwich High School.

* 1942 - After dropping out of a high school in Greenwich, CT, Capote went to work for ''The New Yorker.'' "He started out in the accounting department, was transfered to the art department where he catalogued cartoons and clipped newspapers, and then was moved up to write items for the column 'The Talk of the Town' (Garson 3). In the same year, at the age of seventeen, he got his first stories accepted for publication.

* 1946 - Capote was accepted into Yaddo, a writers’ colony in New York (Plimpton 51); won the ''O'Henry Award'' for the short story "Miriam".

* 1948 - The year Capote's first novel - ''[[Other Voices, Other Rooms]]'' - was published. Despite the opinions both in favor and agaisnt it, the novel became a success and it instantly brought fame to its author, who was then only in his early twenties.

* 1949 - ''[[A Tree of Night and Other Stories]]'' was published. Capote labels it as the beginning of the second cycle in his development as a writer.

* 1954 - The first important film work, a screenplay ''[[Beat the Devil]]'', was written in collaboration with John Huston, a Hollywood director.

* 1958 - Capote reader's most favorite story - ''Breakfast at Tiffany's'', which ended the ten-year period of the sencond cycle - was published.

* 1966 - ''[[In Cold Blood]]'' appeared in print. It was an innovative hybrid of journalistic fact and creative fiction. This novel marked the peak in Capote's career. Capote hosted a masked ball for approximately five hundred of his closest friends in New York at the Plaza Hotel.

* 1975 - He allowed ''Esquire'' magazine to print portions of his unfinished novel, ''Answered Prayers'' as an attempt to prove that he was healthy and not an alcoholic or drug addict.

* 1980 - Capote published the last work of his life entitled ''[[Music for Chameleons]]''.

* 1984 - The writer died in Bel-Air, CA, on August 25.

==Additional Reading about the Author==

*''Capote : A Biography'' by Gerald Clarke

*[http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/capote_t.html PBS: Truman Capote]

*[http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/LitRC?vrsn=3&OP=contains&locID=maco12153&srchtp=athr&ca=1&c=3&ste=6&tab=1&tbst=arp&ai=15706&n=10&docNum=H1100130000&ST=capote&bConts=16047#FurtherReadingsSection Truman Capote ]

*[http://lionreference.chadwyck.com/searchFulltext.do?id=BIO002992&divLevel=0&queryId=../session/1142957921_29363&area=ref&forward=critref_ft Truman Capote Biography]

*[http://www.capotebio.com Truman Capote Abstract]

==Works Cited==

[[Category:Literature]]
* Clarke, Gerald, ed. ''Too Brief a Treat: The Letters of Truman Capote''. New York: Random House, 2004.
* Garson, Helen S. ''Truman Capote.'' New York, Frederick Ungar Publishing Co. 1980.
* Grobel, Lawrence. ''Conversations with Capote''. New York: New American Library. 1985.
* Krebs, Albin. “Truman Capote Is Dead at 59; Novelist of Style and Clarity.” ''New York Times'' 26 Aug. 1984, sec. L1+
* Liukkonen, Petri."Truman Capote".Litweb.[http://www.biblion.com/litweb/biogs/capote_truman.html Truman Capote] 19 March 2006
* Long, Judy. ''Literary New Orleans''. Georgia: Hill Street Press. 1999.
* Plimpton, George. ''Truman Capote: In Which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintances, and Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career''. New York: Doubleday Dell Publishing Group. 1997.
*P[limpton], G[eorge] A. (ed.).: [http://lionreference.chadwyck.com.ezproxy.maconstate.edu/searchFulltext.do?id=R01530960&divLevel=0&queryId=../session/1142821811_490&area=abell&forward=critref_ft''Truman Capote, screenwriter: Beat the Devil'']. Paris Review (Flushing, NY) (38:138) [Spring 1996] , p.125.

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[[Image:Capote.jpg|thumb|Truman Capote]]
==Major Works==

===Novels===
*[http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780679643227''Other Voices, Other Rooms''] (1948)
* ''[[Breakfast at Tiffany's]]'' (1958)
*[http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780679600237''In Cold Blood''] (1966)
*''Answered Prayers'' (1987)- an unfinished novel

===Short Stories===
* ''The Walls Are Cold'' (1943)
* ''A Mink of One's Own'' (1944)
* ''The Shape of Things'' (1944)
* ''Miriam'' (1945)
* ''A Tree of Night'' (1949)
* ''The Thanksgiving Visitor'' (1968)
* [http://www.randomhouse.com/vintage/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780679745662 ''Music for Chameleons]'' (1980)

===Plays and Screenplays===
* ''The Innocents'' (1961)
*[http://www.randomhouse.com/vintage/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780679745570''The Grass Harp''] (1952)
*''Crimewatch'' (1973)
*''A Christmas Memory'' (1966)
*''Behind Prison Walls'' (1972)
*''Among The Paths To Eden'' (1967)
*[http://lionreference.chadwyck.com.ezproxy.maconstate.edu/searchFulltext.do?id=R01530960&divLevel=0&queryId=../session/1142821811_490&area=abell&forward=critref_ft''Beat the Devil''] (1954)

===Others===
*''House of Flowers'' (1954)- musical
* ''In Cold Blood'' (1967)- the movie
*''The Glass House'' (1972)
*''MARILYN MONROE: PHOTOGRAPHS'' 1945-1962, 1994

[[Image:Capote truman young.jpg|thumb|Truman Capote]]
==Biography==
Capote was born in New Orleans on September 30, 1924 to Archulus Persons and Lillie Mae Faulk (Persons) with his birth name being Truman Streckfus Persons. The name Streckfus derived from the Streckfus Company that his father was currently employed with. He was born in the Touro Infirmary. During that time his parents lived in the Monteleone Hotel in New Orleans (Long 133). He died August 25, 1984 , in Los Angeles at Joanna Carson‘s home, previous wife of Johnny Carson (Krebs). He adopted the Capote surname when his mother divorced Archulus Persons and remarried Joe Capote. He had a difficult childhood with a great absence of love (Grobel 47). His mother committed suicide on January 4, 1954 by overdosing on [http://www.bankhead.net/BoozeAndDrugs/Drugs/seconal.html Seconal] (Clarke 64). Capote and his mother both admitted that she was not suited for motherhood. In the late 1970’s, Capote was treated for a drug and alcohol addiction and suffered from [http://muweb.millersville.edu/~muathtrn/trig-neu/Trigeminal_Neuralgia.htm tic doloroux] (Krebs). Capote had written a lot of [http://www.randomhouse.com/vintage/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780679751823''Answered Prayers''] while under the influence of cocaine. He stopped abusing cocaine when he realized that it made him too nervous to continue writing (Grobel 221). Capote’s best friend growing up was his neighbor, Nelle Harper Lee, the author of ''To Kill a Mockingbird''. Lee based Dill Harris’s character upon Capote. Capote had previously based the character of Idabel Tompkins in [http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/catalog/display.pperl?isdn=9780679643227 ''Other Voices, Other Rooms''] on Nelle Harper Lee. At the age of seventeen, Capote went to work for two years at ''The New Yorker''. During those two years he wrote his first unpublished novel,
[http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780812975932''Summer Crossing''](Krebs).

==Awards==
* 1946 - ''[[O. Henry]] Memorial Award'' - established in 1918 to be given to the best stories published in magazines - for the short story ''Miriam''.

==Timeline==
* 1924 - On September 30, Truman Streckfus was born in New Orleans, LA, to Lilie Mae Faulk and Archulus Persons.

* 1930 - He is left with elderly cousins in Monroeville, Alabama.

* 1931 - His mother and father (Arch Persons) divorce on November 9th and his mother moves to New York.

* 1932 - His mother marries Joe Capote and brings Truman to live in New York.

* 1935 - He is adopted by his stepfather on February 14th.

* 1939 - He and his family move to Greenwich, Connecticut, where he attends Greenwich High School.

* 1942 - After dropping out of a high school in Greenwich, CT, Capote went to work for ''The New Yorker.'' "He started out in the accounting department, was transfered to the art department where he catalogued cartoons and clipped newspapers, and then was moved up to write items for the column 'The Talk of the Town' (Garson 3). In the same year, at the age of seventeen, he got his first stories accepted for publication.

* 1946 - Capote was accepted into Yaddo, a writers’ colony in New York (Plimpton 51); won the ''O'Henry Award'' for the short story "Miriam".

* 1948 - The year Capote's first novel - ''[[Other Voices, Other Rooms]]'' - was published. Despite the opinions both in favor and agaisnt it, the novel became a success and it instantly brought fame to its author, who was then only in his early twenties.

* 1949 - ''[[A Tree of Night and Other Stories]]'' was published. Capote labels it as the beginning of the second cycle in his development as a writer.

* 1954 - The first important film work, a screenplay ''[[Beat the Devil]]'', was written in collaboration with John Huston, a Hollywood director.

* 1958 - Capote reader's most favorite story - ''Breakfast at Tiffany's'', which ended the ten-year period of the sencond cycle - was published.

* 1966 - ''[[In Cold Blood]]'' appeared in print. It was an innovative hybrid of journalistic fact and creative fiction. This novel marked the peak in Capote's career. Capote hosted a masked ball for approximately five hundred of his closest friends in New York at the Plaza Hotel.

* 1975 - He allowed ''Esquire'' magazine to print portions of his unfinished novel, ''Answered Prayers'' as an attempt to prove that he was healthy and not an alcoholic or drug addict.

* 1980 - Capote published the last work of his life entitled ''[[Music for Chameleons]]''.

* 1984 - The writer died in Bel-Air, CA, on August 25.

==Additional Reading about the Author==

*''Capote : A Biography'' by Gerald Clarke

*[http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/capote_t.html PBS: Truman Capote]

*[http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/LitRC?vrsn=3&OP=contains&locID=maco12153&srchtp=athr&ca=1&c=3&ste=6&tab=1&tbst=arp&ai=15706&n=10&docNum=H1100130000&ST=capote&bConts=16047#FurtherReadingsSection Truman Capote ]

*[http://lionreference.chadwyck.com/searchFulltext.do?id=BIO002992&divLevel=0&queryId=../session/1142957921_29363&area=ref&forward=critref_ft Truman Capote Biography]

*[http://www.capotebio.com Truman Capote Abstract]

==Works Cited==

[[Category:Literature]]
* Clarke, Gerald, ed. ''Too Brief a Treat: The Letters of Truman Capote''. New York: Random House, 2004.
* Garson, Helen S. ''Truman Capote.'' New York, Frederick Ungar Publishing Co. 1980.
* Grobel, Lawrence. ''Conversations with Capote''. New York: New American Library. 1985.
* Krebs, Albin. “Truman Capote Is Dead at 59; Novelist of Style and Clarity.” ''New York Times'' 26 Aug. 1984, sec. L1+
* Liukkonen, Petri."Truman Capote".Litweb.[http://www.biblion.com/litweb/biogs/capote_truman.html Truman Capote] 19 March 2006
* Long, Judy. ''Literary New Orleans''. Georgia: Hill Street Press. 1999.
* Plimpton, George. ''Truman Capote: In Which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintances, and Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career''. New York: Doubleday Dell Publishing Group. 1997.
*P[limpton], G[eorge] A. (ed.).: [http://lionreference.chadwyck.com.ezproxy.maconstate.edu/searchFulltext.do?id=R01530960&divLevel=0&queryId=../session/1142821811_490&area=abell&forward=critref_ft''Truman Capote, screenwriter: Beat the Devil'']. Paris Review (Flushing, NY) (38:138) [Spring 1996] , p.125.

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[[Image:Capote.jpg|thumb|Truman Capote]]
==Major Works==

===Novels===
*[http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780679643227''Other Voices, Other Rooms''] (1948)
* ''[[Breakfast at Tiffany's]]'' (1958)
*[http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780679600237''In Cold Blood''] (1966)
*''Answered Prayers'' (1987)- an unfinished novel

===Short Stories===
* ''The Walls Are Cold'' (1943)
* ''A Mink of One's Own'' (1944)
* ''The Shape of Things'' (1944)
* ''Miriam'' (1945)
* [http://www.randomhouse.com/vintage/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780679745662 ''Music for Chameleons]'' (1980)

===Plays and Screenplays===
* ''The Innocents'' (1961)
*[http://www.randomhouse.com/vintage/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780679745570''The Grass Harp''] (1952)
*''Crimewatch'' (1973)
*''A Christmas Memory'' (1966)
*''Behind Prison Walls'' (1972)
*''Among The Paths To Eden'' (1967)
*[http://lionreference.chadwyck.com.ezproxy.maconstate.edu/searchFulltext.do?id=R01530960&divLevel=0&queryId=../session/1142821811_490&area=abell&forward=critref_ft''Beat the Devil''] (1954)

===Others===
*''House of Flowers'' (1954)- musical
* ''In Cold Blood'' (1967)- the movie
*''The Glass House'' (1972)
*''MARILYN MONROE: PHOTOGRAPHS'' 1945-1962, 1994

[[Image:Capote truman young.jpg|thumb|Truman Capote]]
==Biography==
Capote was born in New Orleans on September 30, 1924 to Archulus Persons and Lillie Mae Faulk (Persons) with his birth name being Truman Streckfus Persons. The name Streckfus derived from the Streckfus Company that his father was currently employed with. He was born in the Touro Infirmary. During that time his parents lived in the Monteleone Hotel in New Orleans (Long 133). He died August 25, 1984 , in Los Angeles at Joanna Carson‘s home, previous wife of Johnny Carson (Krebs). He adopted the Capote surname when his mother divorced Archulus Persons and remarried Joe Capote. He had a difficult childhood with a great absence of love (Grobel 47). His mother committed suicide on January 4, 1954 by overdosing on [http://www.bankhead.net/BoozeAndDrugs/Drugs/seconal.html Seconal] (Clarke 64). Capote and his mother both admitted that she was not suited for motherhood. In the late 1970’s, Capote was treated for a drug and alcohol addiction and suffered from [http://muweb.millersville.edu/~muathtrn/trig-neu/Trigeminal_Neuralgia.htm tic doloroux] (Krebs). Capote had written a lot of [http://www.randomhouse.com/vintage/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780679751823''Answered Prayers''] while under the influence of cocaine. He stopped abusing cocaine when he realized that it made him too nervous to continue writing (Grobel 221). Capote’s best friend growing up was his neighbor, Nelle Harper Lee, the author of ''To Kill a Mockingbird''. Lee based Dill Harris’s character upon Capote. Capote had previously based the character of Idabel Tompkins in [http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/catalog/display.pperl?isdn=9780679643227 ''Other Voices, Other Rooms''] on Nelle Harper Lee. At the age of seventeen, Capote went to work for two years at ''The New Yorker''. During those two years he wrote his first unpublished novel,
[http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780812975932''Summer Crossing''](Krebs).

==Awards==
* 1946 - ''[[O. Henry]] Memorial Award'' - established in 1918 to be given to the best stories published in magazines - for the short story ''Miriam''.

==Timeline==
* 1924 - On September 30, Truman Streckfus was born in New Orleans, LA, to Lilie Mae Faulk and Archulus Persons.

* 1930 - He is left with elderly cousins in Monroeville, Alabama.

* 1931 - His mother and father (Arch Persons) divorce on November 9th and his mother moves to New York.

* 1932 - His mother marries Joe Capote and brings Truman to live in New York.

* 1935 - He is adopted by his stepfather on February 14th.

* 1939 - He and his family move to Greenwich, Connecticut, where he attends Greenwich High School.

* 1942 - After dropping out of a high school in Greenwich, CT, Capote went to work for ''The New Yorker.'' "He started out in the accounting department, was transfered to the art department where he catalogued cartoons and clipped newspapers, and then was moved up to write items for the column 'The Talk of the Town' (Garson 3). In the same year, at the age of seventeen, he got his first stories accepted for publication.

* 1946 - Capote was accepted into Yaddo, a writers’ colony in New York (Plimpton 51); won the ''O'Henry Award'' for the short story "Miriam".

* 1948 - The year Capote's first novel - ''[[Other Voices, Other Rooms]]'' - was published. Despite the opinions both in favor and agaisnt it, the novel became a success and it instantly brought fame to its author, who was then only in his early twenties.

* 1949 - ''[[A Tree of Night and Other Stories]]'' was published. Capote labels it as the beginning of the second cycle in his development as a writer.

* 1954 - The first important film work, a screenplay ''[[Beat the Devil]]'', was written in collaboration with John Huston, a Hollywood director.

* 1958 - Capote reader's most favorite story - ''Breakfast at Tiffany's'', which ended the ten-year period of the sencond cycle - was published.

* 1966 - ''[[In Cold Blood]]'' appeared in print. It was an innovative hybrid of journalistic fact and creative fiction. This novel marked the peak in Capote's career. Capote hosted a masked ball for approximately five hundred of his closest friends in New York at the Plaza Hotel.

* 1975 - He allowed ''Esquire'' magazine to print portions of his unfinished novel, ''Answered Prayers'' as an attempt to prove that he was healthy and not an alcoholic or drug addict.

* 1980 - Capote published the last work of his life entitled ''[[Music for Chameleons]]''.

* 1984 - The writer died in Bel-Air, CA, on August 25.

==Additional Reading about the Author==

*''Capote : A Biography'' by Gerald Clarke

*[http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/capote_t.html PBS: Truman Capote]

*[http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/LitRC?vrsn=3&OP=contains&locID=maco12153&srchtp=athr&ca=1&c=3&ste=6&tab=1&tbst=arp&ai=15706&n=10&docNum=H1100130000&ST=capote&bConts=16047#FurtherReadingsSection Truman Capote ]

*[http://lionreference.chadwyck.com/searchFulltext.do?id=BIO002992&divLevel=0&queryId=../session/1142957921_29363&area=ref&forward=critref_ft Truman Capote Biography]

*[http://www.capotebio.com Truman Capote Abstract]

==Works Cited==

[[Category:Literature]]
* Clarke, Gerald, ed. ''Too Brief a Treat: The Letters of Truman Capote''. New York: Random House, 2004.
* Garson, Helen S. ''Truman Capote.'' New York, Frederick Ungar Publishing Co. 1980.
* Grobel, Lawrence. ''Conversations with Capote''. New York: New American Library. 1985.
* Krebs, Albin. “Truman Capote Is Dead at 59; Novelist of Style and Clarity.” ''New York Times'' 26 Aug. 1984, sec. L1+
* Liukkonen, Petri."Truman Capote".Litweb.[http://www.biblion.com/litweb/biogs/capote_truman.html Truman Capote] 19 March 2006
* Long, Judy. ''Literary New Orleans''. Georgia: Hill Street Press. 1999.
* Plimpton, George. ''Truman Capote: In Which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintances, and Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career''. New York: Doubleday Dell Publishing Group. 1997.
*P[limpton], G[eorge] A. (ed.).: [http://lionreference.chadwyck.com.ezproxy.maconstate.edu/searchFulltext.do?id=R01530960&divLevel=0&queryId=../session/1142821811_490&area=abell&forward=critref_ft''Truman Capote, screenwriter: Beat the Devil'']. Paris Review (Flushing, NY) (38:138) [Spring 1996] , p.125.

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== Summary ==

The day after Holly's party the narrator discovers that Mag Wildwood is still at Holly's apartment. He gets a strange Latin visitor looking for Mag, then sees the man carrying suitcases to the house. Later, the narrator hears Holly and Mag talking about the war. Holly tells about her brother being a soldier and how he's stupid. Mag is a proud American who is engaged to a Brazilian named Jose. Jose is a politician who wants to become the president of Brazil. Mag wants him to give up politics and live in America.

When the narrator went down to check his mail, he noticed that the card on Holly's box was changed to: Miss Golightly and Miss Wildwood were now traveling together. In his box was a letter from a university review who wanted to publish his story. He showed Holly, who told him not to let them publish if they can't pay. Then, when she saw how excited he was about it, she decided to take him out to lunch and celebrate. As she was getting ready, the narrator noticed the packed suitcases and says that her room reminds him of a girl's gym. The whole time, Holly is talking about Mag and her engagement, then finally congratulates him on the story.

== Notes ==

*'''Totter''' (47)- To move unsteadily with a rocking motion.

*'''“Bully for him”''' (48)- An [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiom idiom] used when something is said that a person does not think the other person deserves praise or admiration for.

*'''Indian summer day''' (48)-a period of sunny, warm weather in autumn, not long before winter that persist for a few days or weeks.

*'''Brazil''' (49)- [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil Brazil] is a formal colony of Portugal, located in South America and is now the 5th largest country in the world.

*'''censoriously''' (49)- Tending to censure, harshly critical.

*'''Portuguese''' (49)- A [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_language Romance language] spoken mainly in Portugal and Brazil.

*'''conventional''' (50)- Ordinary; not unusual or extreme.

*'''argyles''' (51)- Knitted or woven socks in diamond shaped patterns of various colors.

*'''Complacently''' (51)- In a self-satisfied manner.

*'''Sun helmets''' (51)-a light-weight hat that is worn in tropical countries that protects one from the sun.

*'''Misconstrued''' (52)- To misinterpret or mistake the meaning of something.

== Commentary ==
One could suggest that Capote had his own life experiences in mind when writing ''Breakfast at Tiffany’s'' and that he is the [[narrator]]. He modeled the [[character]] of Holly Golightly after six women that he was intrigued with, which were Phoebe Pierce, Gloria Vanderbilt, Carol Marcus, Doris Lilly, Anky Larrabee, and Oona O’Neill (Clarke 64).

In 1964 Capote had written a letter to Alvin Dewey III admitting that Holly was indeed a real girl, but the incidences he writes about her are mostly fictional (Clarke 401). In his later years Capote admits “It’s too bad I don’t like going to bed with women” and further states that he loves attractive and beautiful women only as friends, not lovers (Clarke 93-94). This would explain the basis of how he molded the character of Holly and the relationship between her and the narrator which never becomes sexual.

The narrator is characterized as having his nose pressed against the glass and wanting to be on the inside staring out (Capote 48). In a conversation with Lawrence Grobel, Capote admits “yes, looking in, seeing something that he wanted to be inside of” (Grobel 88). This is indicative of Capote/the narrator being fascinated with the life style of Holly Golightly.

In Cash's critical analysis he states that Mag is a character who is introduced as having many similar characteristics to Holly. She is tall and attractive, but has a stutter problem. She is engaged to Jose, a Brazilian, and when she talks about her future relationship with him she makes the comment to Holly, "Better you than me (Capote 51)." Holly responds back, "Yes. Better me than you (Capote 51)." This indicates that Holly is attracted to Jose, maybe even more than Mag.

== Study Questions ==
1. How was Mag on the verge of pneumonia?

2. How does Holly describe her brother Fred?

3. Why was the narrator charmed by the Latin (Jose)?

4. Where is Jose from?

5. What language is spoken in Brazil?

6. What did Holly have to say about the letter the narrator got from the university review regarding his story?

7. Why did Holly suggest to the narrator that he not let a small university publish his work?

8. Why did the narrator even tell Holly of the plans of the university to publish his story?

9. Why does Mag think that it is a useless thing to be President of Brazil?

10. How is Holly's room described?

11. Why did Holly keep everything packed and ready to go as if she were running from authorities?

12. Why did Holly accept Mag as a roommate?

== External Resources ==

*Cash, Matthew M. [http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bcash/critiicalanalysis.html A-Travelin' Through the Pastures of the Sky. A Critical Analysis of ''Breakfast at Tiffany's.] 1996.

== Works Cited ==
*Clarke, Gerald. ''Capote: A Biography''. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1988.

*Grobel, Lawrence. ''Conversations With Capote''. New York: New American Library, 1985.

*Capote,Truman. ''Breakfast at Tiffany's''. New York: Random House Inc., 1958.

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== Summary ==

The day after Holly's party the narrator discovers that Mag Wildwood is still at Holly's apartment. He gets a strange Latin visitor looking for Mag, then sees the man carrying suitcases to the house. Later, the narrator hears Holly and Mag talking about the war. Holly tells about her brother being a soldier and how he's stupid. Mag is a proud American who is engaged to a Brazilian named Jose. Jose is a politician who wants to become the president of Brazil. Mag wants him to give up politics and live in America.

When the narrator went down to check his mail, he noticed that the card on Holly's box was changed to: Miss Golightly and Miss Wildwood were now traveling together. In his box was a letter from a university review who wanted to publish his story. He showed Holly, who told him not to let them publish if they can't pay. Then, when she saw how excited he was about it, she decided to take him out to lunch and celebrate. As she was getting ready, the narrator noticed the packed suitcases and says that her room reminds him of a girl's gym. The whole time, Holly is talking about Mag and her engagement, then finally congratulates him on the story.

== Notes ==

*'''Totter''' (47)- To move unsteadily with a rocking motion.

*'''“Bully for him”''' (48)- An [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiom idiom] used when something is said that a person does not think the other person deserves praise or admiration for.

*'''Indian summer day''' (48)-a period of sunny, warm weather in autumn, not long before winter that persist for a few days or weeks.

*'''Brazil''' (49)- [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil Brazil] is a formal colony of Portugal, located in South America and is now the 5th largest country in the world.

*'''censoriously''' (49)- Tending to censure, harshly critical.

*'''Portuguese''' (49)- A [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_language Romance language] spoken mainly in Portugal and Brazil.

*'''conventional''' (50)- Ordinary; not unusual or extreme.

*'''argyles''' (51)- Knitted or woven socks in diamond shaped patterns of various colors.

*'''Complacently''' (51)- In a self-satisfied manner.

*'''Sun helmets''' (51)-a light-weight hat that is worn in tropical countries that protects one from the sun.

*'''Misconstrued''' (52)- To misinterpret or mistake the meaning of something.

== Commentary ==
One could suggest that Capote had his own life experiences in mind when writing ''Breakfast at Tiffany’s'' and that he is the [[narrator]]. He modeled the [[character]] of Holly Golightly after six women that he was intrigued with, which were Phoebe Pierce, Gloria Vanderbilt, Carol Marcus, Doris Lilly, Anky Larrabee, and Oona O’Neill (Clarke 64).

In 1964 Capote had written a letter to Alvin Dewey III admitting that Holly was indeed a real girl, but the incidences he writes about her are mostly fictional (Clarke 401). In his later years Capote admits “It’s too bad I don’t like going to bed with women” and further states that he loves attractive and beautiful women only as friends, not lovers (Clarke 93-94). This would explain the basis of how he molded the character of Holly and the relationship between her and the narrator which never becomes sexual.

The narrator is characterized as having his nose pressed against the glass and wanting to be on the inside staring out (Capote 48). In a conversation with Lawrence Grobel, Capote admits “yes, looking in, seeing something that he wanted to be inside of” (Grobel 88). This is indicative of Capote/the narrator being fascinated with the life style of Holly Golightly.

In Cash's critical analysis he states that Mag is a character who is introduced as having many similar characteristics to Holly. She is tall and attractive, but has a stutter problem. She is engaged to Jose, a Brazilian, and when she talks about her future relationship with him she makes the comment to Holly, "Better you than me (Capote 51)." Holly responds back, "Yes. Better me than you (Capote 51)." This indicates that Holly is attracted to Jose, maybe even more than Mag.

== Study Questions ==
1. How was Mag on the verge of pneumonia?

2. How does Holly describe her brother Fred?

3. Why was the narrator charmed by the Latin (Jose)?

4. Where is Jose from?

5. What language is spoken in Brazil?

6. What did Holly have to say about the letter the narrator got from the university review regarding his story?

7. Why did Holly suggest to the narrator that he not let a small university publish his work?

8. Why did the narrator even tell Holly of the plans of the university to publish his story?

9. Why does Mag think that it is a useless thing to be President of Brazil?

10. How is Holly's room described?

11. Why did Holly keep everything packed and ready to go as if she were running from authorities?

12. Why did Holly accept Mag as a roommate?

== External Resources ==

*Cash, Matthew M. [http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bcash/critiicalanalysis.html "A-Travelin' Through the Pastures of the Sky." A Critical Analysis of ''Breakfast at Tiffany's.] 1996.

== Works Cited ==
*Clarke, Gerald. ''Capote: A Biography''. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1988.

*Grobel, Lawrence. ''Conversations With Capote''. New York: New American Library, 1985.

*Capote,Truman. ''Breakfast at Tiffany's''. New York: Random House Inc., 1958.

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Breakfast at Tiffany's Section 3

2006-03-21T15:35:57Z

Rbeard: /* Commentary */

== Summary ==

The day after Holly's party the narrator discovers that Mag Wildwood is still at Holly's apartment. He gets a strange Latin visitor looking for Mag, then sees the man carrying suitcases to the house. Later, the narrator hears Holly and Mag talking about the war. Holly tells about her brother being a soldier and how he's stupid. Mag is a proud American who is engaged to a Brazilian named Jose. Jose is a politician who wants to become the president of Brazil. Mag wants him to give up politics and live in America.

When the narrator went down to check his mail, he noticed that the card on Holly's box was changed to: Miss Golightly and Miss Wildwood were now traveling together. In his box was a letter from a university review who wanted to publish his story. He showed Holly, who told him not to let them publish if they can't pay. Then, when she saw how excited he was about it, she decided to take him out to lunch and celebrate. As she was getting ready, the narrator noticed the packed suitcases and says that her room reminds him of a girl's gym. The whole time, Holly is talking about Mag and her engagement, then finally congratulates him on the story.

== Notes ==

*'''Totter''' (47)- To move unsteadily with a rocking motion.

*'''“Bully for him”''' (48)- An [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiom idiom] used when something is said that a person does not think the other person deserves praise or admiration for.

*'''Indian summer day''' (48)-a period of sunny, warm weather in autumn, not long before winter that persist for a few days or weeks.

*'''Brazil''' (49)- [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil Brazil] is a formal colony of Portugal, located in South America and is now the 5th largest country in the world.

*'''censoriously''' (49)- Tending to censure, harshly critical.

*'''Portuguese''' (49)- A [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_language Romance language] spoken mainly in Portugal and Brazil.

*'''conventional''' (50)- Ordinary; not unusual or extreme.

*'''argyles''' (51)- Knitted or woven socks in diamond shaped patterns of various colors.

*'''Complacently''' (51)- In a self-satisfied manner.

*'''Sun helmets''' (51)-a light-weight hat that is worn in tropical countries that protects one from the sun.

*'''Misconstrued''' (52)- To misinterpret or mistake the meaning of something.

== Commentary ==
One could suggest that Capote had his own life experiences in mind when writing ''Breakfast at Tiffany’s'' and that he is the [[narrator]]. He modeled the [[character]] of Holly Golightly after six women that he was intrigued with, which were Phoebe Pierce, Gloria Vanderbilt, Carol Marcus, Doris Lilly, Anky Larrabee, and Oona O’Neill (Clarke 64).

In 1964 Capote had written a letter to Alvin Dewey III admitting that Holly was indeed a real girl, but the incidences he writes about her are mostly fictional (Clarke 401). In his later years Capote admits “It’s too bad I don’t like going to bed with women” and further states that he loves attractive and beautiful women only as friends, not lovers (Clarke 93-94). This would explain the basis of how he molded the character of Holly and the relationship between her and the narrator which never becomes sexual.

The narrator is characterized as having his nose pressed against the glass and wanting to be on the inside staring out (Capote 48). In a conversation with Lawrence Grobel, Capote admits “yes, looking in, seeing something that he wanted to be inside of” (Grobel 88). This is indicative of Capote/the narrator being fascinated with the life style of Holly Golightly.

In Cash's critical analysis he states that Mag is a character who is introduced as having many similar characteristics to Holly. She is tall and attractive, but has a stutter problem. She is engaged to Jose, a Brazilian, and when she talks about her future relationship with him she makes the comment to Holly, "Better you than me (Capote 51)." Holly responds back, "Yes. Better me than you (Capote 51)." This indicates that Holly is attracted to Jose, maybe even more than Mag.

== Study Questions ==
1. How was Mag on the verge of pneumonia?

2. How does Holly describe her brother Fred?

3. Why was the narrator charmed by the Latin (Jose)?

4. Where is Jose from?

5. What language is spoken in Brazil?

6. What did Holly have to say about the letter the narrator got from the university review regarding his story?

7. Why did Holly suggest to the narrator that he not let a small university publish his work?

8. Why did the narrator even tell Holly of the plans of the university to publish his story?

9. Why does Mag think that it is a useless thing to be President of Brazil?

10. How is Holly's room described?

11. Why did Holly keep everything packed and ready to go as if she were running from authorities?

12. Why did Holly accept Mag as a roommate?

== External Resources ==

== Works Cited ==
*Clarke, Gerald. ''Capote: A Biography''. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1988.

*Grobel, Lawrence. ''Conversations With Capote''. New York: New American Library, 1985.

*Capote,Truman. ''Breakfast at Tiffany's''. New York: Random House Inc., 1958.

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[[Breakfast at Tiffany's]]

Breakfast at Tiffany's Section 3

2006-03-21T15:33:14Z

Rbeard: /* Commentary */

== Summary ==

The day after Holly's party the narrator discovers that Mag Wildwood is still at Holly's apartment. He gets a strange Latin visitor looking for Mag, then sees the man carrying suitcases to the house. Later, the narrator hears Holly and Mag talking about the war. Holly tells about her brother being a soldier and how he's stupid. Mag is a proud American who is engaged to a Brazilian named Jose. Jose is a politician who wants to become the president of Brazil. Mag wants him to give up politics and live in America.

When the narrator went down to check his mail, he noticed that the card on Holly's box was changed to: Miss Golightly and Miss Wildwood were now traveling together. In his box was a letter from a university review who wanted to publish his story. He showed Holly, who told him not to let them publish if they can't pay. Then, when she saw how excited he was about it, she decided to take him out to lunch and celebrate. As she was getting ready, the narrator noticed the packed suitcases and says that her room reminds him of a girl's gym. The whole time, Holly is talking about Mag and her engagement, then finally congratulates him on the story.

== Notes ==

*'''Totter''' (47)- To move unsteadily with a rocking motion.

*'''“Bully for him”''' (48)- An [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiom idiom] used when something is said that a person does not think the other person deserves praise or admiration for.

*'''Indian summer day''' (48)-a period of sunny, warm weather in autumn, not long before winter that persist for a few days or weeks.

*'''Brazil''' (49)- [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil Brazil] is a formal colony of Portugal, located in South America and is now the 5th largest country in the world.

*'''censoriously''' (49)- Tending to censure, harshly critical.

*'''Portuguese''' (49)- A [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_language Romance language] spoken mainly in Portugal and Brazil.

*'''conventional''' (50)- Ordinary; not unusual or extreme.

*'''argyles''' (51)- Knitted or woven socks in diamond shaped patterns of various colors.

*'''Complacently''' (51)- In a self-satisfied manner.

*'''Sun helmets''' (51)-a light-weight hat that is worn in tropical countries that protects one from the sun.

*'''Misconstrued''' (52)- To misinterpret or mistake the meaning of something.

== Commentary ==
One could suggest that Capote had his own life experiences in mind when writing ''Breakfast at Tiffany’s'' and that he is the [[narrator]]. He modeled the [[character]] of Holly Golightly after six women that he was intrigued with, which were Phoebe Pierce, Gloria Vanderbilt, Carol Marcus, Doris Lilly, Anky Larrabee, and Oona O’Neill (Clarke 64).

In 1964 Capote had written a letter to Alvin Dewey III admitting that Holly was indeed a real girl, but the incidences he writes about her are mostly fictional (Clarke 401). In his later years Capote admits “It’s too bad I don’t like going to bed with women” and further states that he loves attractive and beautiful women only as friends, not lovers (Clarke 93-94). This would explain the basis of how he molded the character of Holly and the relationship between her and the narrator which never becomes sexual.

The narrator is characterized as having his nose pressed against the glass and wanting to be on the inside staring out (Capote 48). In a conversation with Lawrence Grobel, Capote admits “yes, looking in, seeing something that he wanted to be inside of” (Grobel 88). This is indicative of Capote/the narrator being fascinated with the life style of Holly Golightly.

Mag is a character that is introduced as having similar characteristics to Holly (Cash). She is tall and attractive, but has a stutter problem. She is engaged to Jose, a Brazilian, and when she talks about her future relationship with him she makes the comment to Holly, "Better you than me (Capote 51)." Holly responds back, "Yes. Better me than you (Capote 51)." This indicates that Holly is attracted to Jose, maybe even more than Mag.

== Study Questions ==
1. How was Mag on the verge of pneumonia?

2. How does Holly describe her brother Fred?

3. Why was the narrator charmed by the Latin (Jose)?

4. Where is Jose from?

5. What language is spoken in Brazil?

6. What did Holly have to say about the letter the narrator got from the university review regarding his story?

7. Why did Holly suggest to the narrator that he not let a small university publish his work?

8. Why did the narrator even tell Holly of the plans of the university to publish his story?

9. Why does Mag think that it is a useless thing to be President of Brazil?

10. How is Holly's room described?

11. Why did Holly keep everything packed and ready to go as if she were running from authorities?

12. Why did Holly accept Mag as a roommate?

== External Resources ==

== Works Cited ==
*Clarke, Gerald. ''Capote: A Biography''. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1988.

*Grobel, Lawrence. ''Conversations With Capote''. New York: New American Library, 1985.

*Capote,Truman. ''Breakfast at Tiffany's''. New York: Random House Inc., 1958.

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Breakfast at Tiffany's Section 3

2006-03-21T15:10:25Z

Rbeard: /* Works Cited */

== Summary ==

The day after Holly's party the narrator discovers that Mag Wildwood is still at Holly's apartment. He gets a strange Latin visitor looking for Mag, then sees the man carrying suitcases to the house. Later, the narrator hears Holly and Mag talking about the war. Holly tells about her brother being a soldier and how he's stupid. Mag is a proud American who is engaged to a Brazilian named Jose. Jose is a politician who wants to become the president of Brazil. Mag wants him to give up politics and live in America.

When the narrator went down to check his mail, he noticed that the card on Holly's box was changed to: Miss Golightly and Miss Wildwood were now traveling together. In his box was a letter from a university review who wanted to publish his story. He showed Holly, who told him not to let them publish if they can't pay. Then, when she saw how excited he was about it, she decided to take him out to lunch and celebrate. As she was getting ready, the narrator noticed the packed suitcases and says that her room reminds him of a girl's gym. The whole time, Holly is talking about Mag and her engagement, then finally congratulates him on the story.

== Notes ==

*'''Totter''' (47)- To move unsteadily with a rocking motion.

*'''“Bully for him”''' (48)- An [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiom idiom] used when something is said that a person does not think the other person deserves praise or admiration for.

*'''Indian summer day''' (48)-a period of sunny, warm weather in autumn, not long before winter that persist for a few days or weeks.

*'''Brazil''' (49)- [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil Brazil] is a formal colony of Portugal, located in South America and is now the 5th largest country in the world.

*'''censoriously''' (49)- Tending to censure, harshly critical.

*'''Portuguese''' (49)- A [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_language Romance language] spoken mainly in Portugal and Brazil.

*'''conventional''' (50)- Ordinary; not unusual or extreme.

*'''argyles''' (51)- Knitted or woven socks in diamond shaped patterns of various colors.

*'''Complacently''' (51)- In a self-satisfied manner.

*'''Sun helmets''' (51)-a light-weight hat that is worn in tropical countries that protects one from the sun.

*'''Misconstrued''' (52)- To misinterpret or mistake the meaning of something.

== Commentary ==
One could suggest that Capote had his own life experiences in mind when writing ''Breakfast at Tiffany’s'' and that he is the [[narrator]]. He modeled the [[character]] of Holly Golightly after six women that he was intrigued with, which were Phoebe Pierce, Gloria Vanderbilt, Carol Marcus, Doris Lilly, Anky Larrabee, and Oona O’Neill (Clarke 64).

In 1964 Capote had written a letter to Alvin Dewey III admitting that Holly was indeed a real girl, but the incidences he writes about her are mostly fictional (Clarke 401). In his later years Capote admits “It’s too bad I don’t like going to bed with women” and further states that he loves attractive and beautiful women only as friends, not lovers (Clarke 93-94). This would explain the basis of how he molded the character of Holly and the relationship between her and the narrator which never becomes sexual.

The narrator is characterized as having his nose pressed against the glass and wanting to be on the inside staring out (48). In a conversation with Lawrence Grobel, Capote admits “yes, looking in, seeing something that he wanted to be inside of” (Grobel 88). This is indicative of Capote/the narrator being fascinated with the life style of Holly Golightly.

== Study Questions ==
1. How was Mag on the verge of pneumonia?

2. How does Holly describe her brother Fred?

3. Why was the narrator charmed by the Latin (Jose)?

4. Where is Jose from?

5. What language is spoken in Brazil?

6. What did Holly have to say about the letter the narrator got from the university review regarding his story?

7. Why did Holly suggest to the narrator that he not let a small university publish his work?

8. Why did the narrator even tell Holly of the plans of the university to publish his story?

9. Why does Mag think that it is a useless thing to be President of Brazil?

10. How is Holly's room described?

11. Why did Holly keep everything packed and ready to go as if she were running from authorities?

12. Why did Holly accept Mag as a roommate?

== External Resources ==

== Works Cited ==
*Clarke, Gerald. ''Capote: A Biography''. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1988.

*Grobel, Lawrence. ''Conversations With Capote''. New York: New American Library, 1985.

*Capote,Truman. ''Breakfast at Tiffany's''. New York: Random House Inc., 1958.

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Breakfast at Tiffany's Section 3

2006-03-21T15:07:22Z

Rbeard: /* Commentary */

== Summary ==

The day after Holly's party the narrator discovers that Mag Wildwood is still at Holly's apartment. He gets a strange Latin visitor looking for Mag, then sees the man carrying suitcases to the house. Later, the narrator hears Holly and Mag talking about the war. Holly tells about her brother being a soldier and how he's stupid. Mag is a proud American who is engaged to a Brazilian named Jose. Jose is a politician who wants to become the president of Brazil. Mag wants him to give up politics and live in America.

When the narrator went down to check his mail, he noticed that the card on Holly's box was changed to: Miss Golightly and Miss Wildwood were now traveling together. In his box was a letter from a university review who wanted to publish his story. He showed Holly, who told him not to let them publish if they can't pay. Then, when she saw how excited he was about it, she decided to take him out to lunch and celebrate. As she was getting ready, the narrator noticed the packed suitcases and says that her room reminds him of a girl's gym. The whole time, Holly is talking about Mag and her engagement, then finally congratulates him on the story.

== Notes ==

*'''Totter''' (47)- To move unsteadily with a rocking motion.

*'''“Bully for him”''' (48)- An [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiom idiom] used when something is said that a person does not think the other person deserves praise or admiration for.

*'''Indian summer day''' (48)-a period of sunny, warm weather in autumn, not long before winter that persist for a few days or weeks.

*'''Brazil''' (49)- [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil Brazil] is a formal colony of Portugal, located in South America and is now the 5th largest country in the world.

*'''censoriously''' (49)- Tending to censure, harshly critical.

*'''Portuguese''' (49)- A [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_language Romance language] spoken mainly in Portugal and Brazil.

*'''conventional''' (50)- Ordinary; not unusual or extreme.

*'''argyles''' (51)- Knitted or woven socks in diamond shaped patterns of various colors.

*'''Complacently''' (51)- In a self-satisfied manner.

*'''Sun helmets''' (51)-a light-weight hat that is worn in tropical countries that protects one from the sun.

*'''Misconstrued''' (52)- To misinterpret or mistake the meaning of something.

== Commentary ==
One could suggest that Capote had his own life experiences in mind when writing ''Breakfast at Tiffany’s'' and that he is the [[narrator]]. He modeled the [[character]] of Holly Golightly after six women that he was intrigued with, which were Phoebe Pierce, Gloria Vanderbilt, Carol Marcus, Doris Lilly, Anky Larrabee, and Oona O’Neill (Clarke 64).

In 1964 Capote had written a letter to Alvin Dewey III admitting that Holly was indeed a real girl, but the incidences he writes about her are mostly fictional (Clarke 401). In his later years Capote admits “It’s too bad I don’t like going to bed with women” and further states that he loves attractive and beautiful women only as friends, not lovers (Clarke 93-94). This would explain the basis of how he molded the character of Holly and the relationship between her and the narrator which never becomes sexual.

The narrator is characterized as having his nose pressed against the glass and wanting to be on the inside staring out (48). In a conversation with Lawrence Grobel, Capote admits “yes, looking in, seeing something that he wanted to be inside of” (Grobel 88). This is indicative of Capote/the narrator being fascinated with the life style of Holly Golightly.

== Study Questions ==
1. How was Mag on the verge of pneumonia?

2. How does Holly describe her brother Fred?

3. Why was the narrator charmed by the Latin (Jose)?

4. Where is Jose from?

5. What language is spoken in Brazil?

6. What did Holly have to say about the letter the narrator got from the university review regarding his story?

7. Why did Holly suggest to the narrator that he not let a small university publish his work?

8. Why did the narrator even tell Holly of the plans of the university to publish his story?

9. Why does Mag think that it is a useless thing to be President of Brazil?

10. How is Holly's room described?

11. Why did Holly keep everything packed and ready to go as if she were running from authorities?

12. Why did Holly accept Mag as a roommate?

== External Resources ==

== Works Cited ==
*Clarke, Gerald. ''Capote: A Biography''. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1988.

*Grobel, Lawrence. ''Conversations With Capote''. New York: New American Library, 1985.

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2006-03-21T15:05:29Z

Rbeard: /* Commentary */

== Summary ==

The day after Holly's party the narrator discovers that Mag Wildwood is still at Holly's apartment. He gets a strange Latin visitor looking for Mag, then sees the man carrying suitcases to the house. Later, the narrator hears Holly and Mag talking about the war. Holly tells about her brother being a soldier and how he's stupid. Mag is a proud American who is engaged to a Brazilian named Jose. Jose is a politician who wants to become the president of Brazil. Mag wants him to give up politics and live in America.

When the narrator went down to check his mail, he noticed that the card on Holly's box was changed to: Miss Golightly and Miss Wildwood were now traveling together. In his box was a letter from a university review who wanted to publish his story. He showed Holly, who told him not to let them publish if they can't pay. Then, when she saw how excited he was about it, she decided to take him out to lunch and celebrate. As she was getting ready, the narrator noticed the packed suitcases and says that her room reminds him of a girl's gym. The whole time, Holly is talking about Mag and her engagement, then finally congratulates him on the story.

== Notes ==

*'''Totter''' (47)- To move unsteadily with a rocking motion.

*'''“Bully for him”''' (48)- An [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiom idiom] used when something is said that a person does not think the other person deserves praise or admiration for.

*'''Indian summer day''' (48)-a period of sunny, warm weather in autumn, not long before winter that persist for a few days or weeks.

*'''Brazil''' (49)- [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil Brazil] is a formal colony of Portugal, located in South America and is now the 5th largest country in the world.

*'''censoriously''' (49)- Tending to censure, harshly critical.

*'''Portuguese''' (49)- A [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_language Romance language] spoken mainly in Portugal and Brazil.

*'''conventional''' (50)- Ordinary; not unusual or extreme.

*'''argyles''' (51)- Knitted or woven socks in diamond shaped patterns of various colors.

*'''Complacently''' (51)- In a self-satisfied manner.

*'''Sun helmets''' (51)-a light-weight hat that is worn in tropical countries that protects one from the sun.

*'''Misconstrued''' (52)- To misinterpret or mistake the meaning of something.

== Commentary ==
One could suggest that Capote had his own life experiences in mind when writing ''Breakfast at Tiffany’s'' and that he is the [[narrator]]. He modeled the [[character]] of Holly Golightly after six women that he was intrigued with, which were Phoebe Pierce, Gloria Vanderbilt, Carol Marcus, Doris Lilly, Anky Larrabee, and Oona O’Neill (Clarke 64).

In 1964 Capote had written a letter to Alvin Dewey III admitting that Holly was indeed a real girl, but the incidences he writes about her are mostly fictional (Clarke 401). In his later years Capote admits “It’s too bad I don’t like going to bed with women” and further states that he loves attractive and beautiful women only as friends, not lovers (Clarke 93-94). This would explain the basis of how he molded the character of Holly and the relationship between her and the narrator which never becomes sexual.

The narrator is characterized as having his nose pressed against the glass and wanting to be on the inside staring out. In a conversation with Lawrence Grobel, Capote admits “yes, looking in, seeing something that he wanted to be inside of” (Grobel 88). This is indicative of Capote/the narrator being fascinated with the life style of Holly Golightly.

== Study Questions ==
1. How was Mag on the verge of pneumonia?

2. How does Holly describe her brother Fred?

3. Why was the narrator charmed by the Latin (Jose)?

4. Where is Jose from?

5. What language is spoken in Brazil?

6. What did Holly have to say about the letter the narrator got from the university review regarding his story?

7. Why did Holly suggest to the narrator that he not let a small university publish his work?

8. Why did the narrator even tell Holly of the plans of the university to publish his story?

9. Why does Mag think that it is a useless thing to be President of Brazil?

10. How is Holly's room described?

11. Why did Holly keep everything packed and ready to go as if she were running from authorities?

12. Why did Holly accept Mag as a roommate?

== External Resources ==

== Works Cited ==
*Clarke, Gerald. ''Capote: A Biography''. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1988.

*Grobel, Lawrence. ''Conversations With Capote''. New York: New American Library, 1985.

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2006-03-21T14:47:16Z

Rbeard: /* Study Questions */

== Summary ==

The day after Holly's party the narrator discovers that Mag Wildwood is still at Holly's apartment. He gets a strange Latin visitor looking for Mag, then sees the man carrying suitcases to the house. Later, the narrator hears Holly and Mag talking about the war. Holly tells about her brother being a soldier and how he's stupid. Mag is a proud American who is engaged to a Brazilian named Jose. Jose is a politician who wants to become the president of Brazil. Mag wants him to give up politics and live in America.

When the narrator went down to check his mail, he noticed that the card on Holly's box was changed to: Miss Golightly and Miss Wildwood were now traveling together. In his box was a letter from a university review who wanted to publish his story. He showed Holly, who told him not to let them publish if they can't pay. Then, when she saw how excited he was about it, she decided to take him out to lunch and celebrate. As she was getting ready, the narrator noticed the packed suitcases and says that her room reminds him of a girl's gym. The whole time, Holly is talking about Mag and her engagement, then finally congratulates him on the story.

== Notes ==

*'''Totter''' (47)- To move unsteadily with a rocking motion.

*'''“Bully for him”''' (48)- An [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiom idiom] used when something is said that a person does not think the other person deserves praise or admiration for.

*'''Indian summer day''' (48)-a period of sunny, warm weather in autumn, not long before winter that persist for a few days or weeks.

*'''Brazil''' (49)- [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil Brazil] is a formal colony of Portugal, located in South America and is now the 5th largest country in the world.

*'''censoriously''' (49)- Tending to censure, harshly critical.

*'''Portuguese''' (49)- A [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_language Romance language] spoken mainly in Portugal and Brazil.

*'''conventional''' (50)- Ordinary; not unusual or extreme.

*'''argyles''' (51)- Knitted or woven socks in diamond shaped patterns of various colors.

*'''Complacently''' (51)- In a self-satisfied manner.

*'''Sun helmets''' (51)-a light-weight hat that is worn in tropical countries that protects one from the sun.

*'''Misconstrued''' (52)- To misinterpret or mistake the meaning of something.

== Commentary ==
One could suggest that Capote had his own life experiences in mind when writing ''Breakfast at Tiffany’s'' and that he is the [[narrator]]. He modeled the [[character]] of Holly Golightly after six women that he was intrigued with, which were Phoebe Pierce, Gloria Vanderbilt, Carol Marcus, Doris Lilly, Anky Larrabee, and Oona O’Neill (Clarke, 64).

In 1964 Capote had written a letter to Alvin Dewey III admitting that Holly was indeed a real girl, but the incidences he writes about her are mostly fictional (Clarke, 401). In his later years Capote admits “It’s too bad I don’t like going to bed with women” and further states that he loves attractive and beautiful women only as friends, not lovers (Clarke 93-94). This would explain the basis of how he molded the character of Holly and the relationship between her and the narrator which never becomes sexual.

The narrator is characterized as having his nose pressed against the glass and wanting to be on the inside staring out. In a conversation with Lawrence Grobel, Capote admits “yes, looking in, seeing something that he wanted to be inside of” (Grobel, 88). This is indicative of Capote/the narrator being fascinated with the life style of Holly Golightly.

== Study Questions ==
1. How was Mag on the verge of pneumonia?

2. How does Holly describe her brother Fred?

3. Why was the narrator charmed by the Latin (Jose)?

4. Where is Jose from?

5. What language is spoken in Brazil?

6. What did Holly have to say about the letter the narrator got from the university review regarding his story?

7. Why did Holly suggest to the narrator that he not let a small university publish his work?

8. Why did the narrator even tell Holly of the plans of the university to publish his story?

9. Why does Mag think that it is a useless thing to be President of Brazil?

10. How is Holly's room described?

11. Why did Holly keep everything packed and ready to go as if she were running from authorities?

12. Why did Holly accept Mag as a roommate?

== External Resources ==

== Works Cited ==
*Clarke, Gerald. ''Capote: A Biography''. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1988.

*Grobel, Lawrence. ''Conversations With Capote''. New York: New American Library, 1985.

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== Summary ==

== Notes ==
*'''"The now defunct newspaper, ''PM''"''' (75) - A left-wing daily newspaper in New York City, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PM_%28newspaper%29 ''PM''] stood for "Picture Magazine," since it borrowed so many pictures from other newsmagazines. The newspaper began in 1940 and was published until 1948 when it was replaced by the ''New York Star''.

== Commentary ==

== Study Questions ==

== External Resources ==

== Works Cited ==

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== Summary ==

The day after Holly's party the narrator discovers that Mag Wilwood is still at Holly's apartment. He gets a strange Latin visitor looking for Mag, then sees the man carrying suitcases to the house. Later, the narrator hears Holly and Mag talking about the war. Holly tells about her brother being a soldier and how he's stupid. Mag is a proud American who is engaged to a Brazilian named Jose. Jose is a politician who wants to become the president of Brazil. Mag wants him to give up politics and live in America.

When the narrator went down to check his mail, he noticed that the card on Holly's box was changed to: Miss Golightly and Miss Wilwood were now traveling together. In his box was a letter from a university review who wanted to publish his story. He showed Holly, who told him not to let them publish if they can't pay. Then, when she saw how excited he was about it, she decided to take him out to lunch and celebrate. As she was getting ready, the narrator noticed the packed suitcases and says that her room reminds him of a girl's gym. The whole time, Holly is talking about Mag and her engagement, then finally congratulates him on the story.

== Notes ==

'''Portuguese''' (49)- A [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_language Romance language] spoken mainly in Portugal and Brazil.

'''Brazil''' (49)- [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil Brazil] is a formal colony of Portugal, located in South America and is now the 5th largest country in the world.

'''censoriously''' (49)- Tending to censure, harshly critical.

'''conventional''' (50)- Ordinary; not unusual or extreme.

'''argyles''' (51)- Knitted or woven socks in diamond shaped patterns of various colors.

== Commentary ==

== Study Questions ==

How does Holly describe her brother Fred?

Where is Jose from?

What did Holly have to say about the letter the narrator got from the university review regarding his story?

How is Holly's room described?

== External Resources ==

== Works Cited ==

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== Summary ==

The day after Holly's party the narrator discovers that Mag Wilwood is still at Holly's apartment. He gets a strange Latin visitor looking for Mag, then sees the man carrying suitcases to the house. Later, the narrator hears Holly and Mag talking about the war. Holly tells about her brother being a soldier and how he's stupid. Mag is a proud American who is engaged to a Brazilian named Jose. Jose is a politician who wants to become the president of Brazil. Mag wants him to give up politics and live in America.

When the narrator went down to check his mail, he noticed that the card on Holly's box was changed to: Miss Golightly and Miss Wilwood were now traveling together. In his box was a letter from a university review who wanted to publish his story. He showed Holly, who told him not to let them publish if they can't pay. Then, when she saw how excited he was about it, she decided to take him out to lunch and celebrate. As she was getting ready, the narrator noticed the packed suitcases and says that her room reminds him of a girl's gym. The whole time, Holly is talking about Mag and her engagement, then finally congratulates him on the story.

== Notes ==

'''Portuguese''' (49)- a Romance language spoken mainly in Portugal and Brazil

'''censoriously''' (49)- tending to censure, harshly critical

'''conventional''' (50)- ordinary; not unusual or extreme

'''argyles''' (51)- knitted or woven socks in diamond shaped patterns of various colors

== Commentary ==

== Study Questions ==

How does Holly describe her brother Fred?

== External Resources ==

== Works Cited ==

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== Summary ==

== Notes ==

== Commentary ==

== Study Questions ==

How does Holly describe her brother Fred?

== External Resources ==

== Works Cited ==

Colloquialism

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Colloquialism is an informal use of speech or writing (Agnes 288). Colloquialism is derived from Latin ''col''+''loqui'', which means to speak together or converse. It is suggested by Bernstein that ''casual'' is a better word because it is more familiar and relaxed (Bremner 175).
Colloquialisms are loosely used conversational words which may include slang and/or aphorisms. These words are generally found being used in certain geographical regions in which the people are comfortable with others in that same area. Gleason states that they are also generally used in a person's writing. It takes part in keeping the written and spoken language close together (374).

We use colloquial words in our everyday conversations. Mark Twain mastered colloquial speech by knowing when to use it and when not to (Glencoe 305). In Twain's "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calavaras County," he uses examples of colloquial language. An example includes the dialogue "'What might it be that you've got in the box?' And Smiley says, sorter indifferent like, 'it might be a parrot, or it might be a canary, maybe, but it ain't-it's only just a frog'"(Glencoe 300).

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==Works Cited==
*Agnes, Michael. ''Webster's New World College Dictionary.'' 4th ed. USA:Macmillan, 1999.

*Glencoe. ''American Literature.'' CA:McGraw-Hill, 1989.

*Gleason, H.A. Jr. ''Linguistics and English Grammar.'' USA: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, Inc., 1985.

*Bremner, John B. ''Words on Words.'' NY:Columbia University Press, 1980.

Colloquialism

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Rbeard:

Colloquialism is an informal use of speech or writing. Colloquialisms are loosely used conversational words which may include slang and/or aphorisms. These words are generally found being used in certain geographical regions in which the people are comfortable with others in that same area.

When used in a dictionary, the abbreviation ''colloq.'' is used to represent colloquialisms.

Some examples of colloquialisms include southern slang words such as "bread basket," which means stomach and "chief cook and bottle washer," which is a person capable of doing many things.

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==External Links==
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colloquialism Wikipedia]
*[http://littlerock.about.com/cs/southernlife/a/aasouthslang.htm Southern Slang Dictionary]

==Works Cited==
*Agnes, Michael. ''Webster's New World College Dictionary.'' 4th ed. USA:Macmillan, 1999.

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Colloquialism

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Colloquialism

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Colloquialism is an informal use of speech or writing. Colloquialisms may include slang and/or aphorisms.

[[Literary Terms]]
==External Links==
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colloquialism Wikipedia]

Colloquialism

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Rbeard:

Colloquialism is an informal use of speech or writing. Colloquialisms may include slang and/or aphorisms.

[[Literary Terms]]
==Works Cited==
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colloquialism Wikipedia]

Colloquialism

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Rbeard:

Colloquialism is an informal use of speech or writing. Colloquialisms may include slang and/or aphorisms.

==Works Cited==
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colloquialism Wikipedia]

Colloquialism

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Rbeard:

Colloquialism is an informal use of speech or writing. Colloquialisms may include slang and/or aphorisms.

==Works Cited==
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colloquialism. Wikipedia]

Colloquialism

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Rbeard:

Colloquialism is an informal use of speech or writing. Colloquialisms may include slang and/or aphorisms.

==Works Cited==
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colloquialisms. Wikipedia]

Colloquialism

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Colloquialism is an informal use of speech or writing. Colloquialisms may include slang and/or aphorisms.

==Works Cited==
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colloquialsims. Wikipedia]

Hamartia

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The tragic [[protagonist]]’s flaw that precipitates his/her [[peripeteia | fall]] from a position of good fortune to bad fortune, often associated with his/her overweening [[hubris]], and integral to [[tragedy]]. Hamartia is a term taken from archery, meaning “falling short of the mark,” but it also suggests “sin,” “trespass,” “fault,” “mistake,” “error,” etc. Hamlet’s ''hamartia'' may be said, then, to be his uncertainty in the face of action; Oedipus’ is his arrogance and faith in his reasoning that blinds him to obvious facts; and Medea’s is her pride as a foreign princess vis-a-vis her position as an outcast in Corinth. Therefore, ''hamartia'' has much to do with the character’s disposition, or nature, when approaching his/her dilemma — a nature that he/she cannot overcome, and thus leads to the tragic outcome.

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