https://litwiki.org/api.php?action=feedcontributions&feedformat=atom&user=Rscot899 2026-04-23T00:44:08Z User contributions MediaWiki 1.43.0 https://litwiki.org/index.php?title=Perestroika_5.6&diff=9108 2006-04-27T03:28:39Z

<p>Rscot899: </p> <hr /> <div>== Summary ==<br /> Rabbi Isidor Chemelwitz and Sarah Ironson are on the streets of Heaven playing cards. Prior enters, not knowing where he is. He tells Sarah, who does not speak English, that he knows Louis and that he is gay. Prior asks Rabbi why everyone is playing cards, and Rabbi tells him that everything is known in Heaven, so they play cards for chance, the unknown. Prior say he wants to go home and starts to descend. Sarah expresses that she would like Prior to tell Louis he should have visited her, but she forgives him.<br /> == Notes ==<br /> == Commentary ==<br /> == Study Questions ==<br /> #What are Sarah Ironson and Rabbie Isidor Chemelwitz sitting on?<br /> #Who is Sarah to Louis?<br /> #What lies around like yesterday's newspaper in Heaven?<br /> #What is the Jewish way?<br /> == External Resources ==<br /> == Works Cited ==</div>

Rscot899 https://litwiki.org/index.php?title=Perestroika_4.4&diff=9104 2006-04-27T03:14:28Z

<p>Rscot899: </p> <hr /> <div>==Summary==<br /> Joe visits his mother at the Visitor's Center. He has come to find Harper and see how she has been, since he has spent a whole month with Louis. He tells Hannah he is going to take Harper home, but she is neither at the apartment nor with Hannah. Joes tells Hannah he wishes she hadn't come and leaves. Just as he leaves, Prior walks in and tells Hannah that Joe will end up miserable with Louis. Prior is suddenly attacked with fever, and Hannah helps him to St. Vincent's Hospital.<br /> == Notes ==<br /> == Commentary ==<br /> ==Study Questions==<br /> #How long has it been since Joe has called his mother?<br /> #Why does Joe leave Utah? What is he running from?<br /> #What is it that Joe says he needs from Hannah?<br /> #What does Joe mean when he says Hannah brings the desert with her?<br /> #What does Hannah do before Joe leaves?<br /> #Hannah asks Prior if he does what as an occupation?<br /> #What is the significance of the approaching storm and the thunder at the end of the scene?<br /> == External Resources ==<br /> == Works Cited ==</div>

Rscot899 https://litwiki.org/index.php?title=Perestroika_4.3&diff=7159 2006-04-27T02:50:39Z

<p>Rscot899: </p> <hr /> <div>== Summary ==<br /> The day darkens as Louis talks to Belize on the rim of the Bathesda Fountain in Central Park. Louis knows what Bethesda commemorates, and Belize says Louis &quot;is nothing if not well informed&quot; (226). Belize tells Louis about Prior and his visit to see Joe. Belize also informs Louis that Joe is Roy's &quot;buttboy,&quot; to which Louis had no idea (226). Louis is in utter shock at this news. He accuses Belize of loving Prior and insults him. Belize tells Louis that he has a partner and that he hates America because of the horrible things he sees in his nursing profession.<br /> == Notes ==<br /> == Commentary ==<br /> == Study Questions ==<br /> #What does Bathesda commemorate?<br /> #Belize accuses Louis of only doing what with Joe?<br /> #Louis refers to which character as the worst man who ever lived?<br /> #What does Belize compare Louis to?<br /> <br /> == External Resources ==<br /> == Works Cited ==</div>

Rscot899 https://litwiki.org/index.php?title=Perestroika_4.2&diff=7156 2006-04-27T02:32:42Z

<p>Rscot899: </p> <hr /> <div>==Summary==<br /> Prior decides to pay Joe a visit at his office to see what he looks like. Belize reluctantly goes with him. When Prior sees Joe, he makes a comment about Harper. Joe wonders how he knows his wife. Before he walks out, Prior belittles Joe's job as a clerk filing things. Belize has a look at Joe, and they instantly recognize each other, but Belize denies that she is Roy's nurse. As Prior and Belize are about to leave, Joe approaches them and questions how Prior knows Harper. Prior pretends he is a mental patient and that Belize is his nurse, and they never answer any of Joe's questions.<br /> ==Notes==<br /> ==Commentary==<br /> ==Study Questions==<br /> #What does Prior say his new hobby is? <br /> #Who does Prior say Joe resembles? <br /> #Prior says the &quot;Whore of Babylon,&quot; referring to which character?<br /> #What does Prior tell Belize that Joe makes him feel like? <br /> #Prior pretends that his will is being contested, which refers to what legal term?<br /> ==External Resources==<br /> ==Works Cited==</div>

Rscot899 https://litwiki.org/index.php?title=Millennium_Approaches_3.4&diff=9051 2006-04-25T20:35:37Z

<p>Rscot899: changed * to #</p> <hr /> <div>==Summary==<br /> In the South Bronx, Hannah runs into a homeless Woman standing next to an oil drum with a fire burning inside of it. Hannah got off at the last stop of the bus she was told to take, and she does not know where she is. The Woman tells Hannah they are in the Bronx and then begins to talk to herself about the annoying way she is slurping her soup. Hannah tell the Woman to pull herself together and tell her how to get to Brooklyn. The Woman tells her how to get to the Mormon Visitor's Center on 65th and Broadway. To end the scene, the Woman changes her tone and says &quot;In the new century I think we will all be insane,&quot; just before Hannah walks away (111). <br /> ==Notes==<br /> ==Commentary==<br /> ==Study Questions==<br /> #Where has Hannah traveled from?<br /> #What is the maximum amount of time she will wait for anyone?<br /> #The homeless Woman says she once went out with what famous prophecier?<br /> #Where is the Mormon Visitor's Center located?<br /> #What do you think the Woman's prediction means?<br /> ==External Resources==<br /> ==Works Cited==<br /> <br /> ----<br /> [[Angels in America | Not-Yet-Conscious, Forward Dawning Act 3 Scene 5]]<br /> [[Category:Literature]]</div>

Rscot899 https://litwiki.org/index.php?title=Millennium_Approaches_3.3&diff=9050 2006-04-25T20:34:40Z

<p>Rscot899: Changed * to #</p> <hr /> <div>==Summary==<br /> Harper hallucinates that she is in Antarctica. She discussess with Mr. Lies her plans of making a &quot;new world&quot; in Antarctica so she does not have to return to her home (108). Mr. Lies tells her that there are no Eskimo and no trees and that she is not pregnant. The scene ends as Harper walks off to meet up with an Eskimo. As she is walking away, she goes on about giving birth to a baby covered with white hair, her breast milk being hot cocoa, and the baby having a marsupial pouch, all to keep them warm in the snow. <br /> ==Notes==<br /> ==Commentary==<br /> ==Study Questions==<br /> #What is Harper wearing in Antarctica?<br /> #In this scene, what sound is heard in the distance?<br /> #What do you think is the significance of Harper tasting the iron taste of blood? Who is the other character that tastes iron in Perestroika?<br /> #What does Mr. Lies say is against the by-laws of the IOTA?<br /> <br /> ==External Resources==<br /> ==Works Cited==<br /> <br /> ----<br /> [[Angels in America | Not-Yet-conscious, Forward Dawning Act 3 Scene 4]]<br /> [[Category:Literature]]</div>

Rscot899 https://litwiki.org/index.php?title=Millennium_Approaches_3.4&diff=7045 2006-04-25T20:33:03Z

<p>Rscot899: </p> <hr /> <div>==Summary==<br /> In the South Bronx, Hannah runs into a homeless Woman standing next to an oil drum with a fire burning inside of it. Hannah got off at the last stop of the bus she was told to take, and she does not know where she is. The Woman tells Hannah they are in the Bronx and then begins to talk to herself about the annoying way she is slurping her soup. Hannah tell the Woman to pull herself together and tell her how to get to Brooklyn. The Woman tells her how to get to the Mormon Visitor's Center on 65th and Broadway. To end the scene, the Woman changes her tone and says &quot;In the new century I think we will all be insane,&quot; just before Hannah walks away (111). <br /> ==Notes==<br /> ==Commentary==<br /> ==Study Questions==<br /> *Where has Hannah traveled from?<br /> *What is the maximum amount of time she will wait for anyone?<br /> *The homeless Woman says she once went out with what famous prophecier?<br /> *Where is the Mormon Visitor's Center located?<br /> *What do you think the Woman's prediction means?<br /> ==External Resources==<br /> ==Works Cited==<br /> <br /> ----<br /> [[Angels in America | Not-Yet-Conscious, Forward Dawning Act 3 Scene 5]]<br /> [[Category:Literature]]</div>

Rscot899 https://litwiki.org/index.php?title=Millennium_Approaches_3.3&diff=7044 2006-04-25T20:10:19Z

<p>Rscot899: </p> <hr /> <div>==Summary==<br /> Harper hallucinates that she is in Antarctica. She discussess with Mr. Lies her plans of making a &quot;new world&quot; in Antarctica so she does not have to return to her home (108). Mr. Lies tells her that there are no Eskimo and no trees and that she is not pregnant. The scene ends as Harper walks off to meet up with an Eskimo. As she is walking away, she goes on about giving birth to a baby covered with white hair, her breast milk being hot cocoa, and the baby having a marsupial pouch, all to keep them warm in the snow. <br /> ==Notes==<br /> ==Commentary==<br /> ==Study Questions==<br /> *What is Harper wearing in Antarctica?<br /> *In this scene, what sound is heard in the distance?<br /> *What do you think is the significance of Harper tasting the iron taste of blood? Who is the other character that tastes iron in Perestroika?<br /> *What does Mr. Lies say is against the by-laws of the IOTA?<br /> <br /> ==External Resources==<br /> ==Works Cited==<br /> <br /> ----<br /> [[Angels in America | Not-Yet-conscious, Forward Dawning Act 3 Scene 4]]<br /> [[Category:Literature]]</div>

Rscot899 https://litwiki.org/index.php?title=Breakfast_at_Tiffany%27s&diff=6455 2006-03-23T03:06:39Z

<p>Rscot899: </p> <hr /> <div>==Factual Information==<br /> A [[novel]]/[[novella]] by American writer [[Truman Capote]] published in 1958 by Random House, Inc., New York.<br /> <br /> http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/capote.htm Truman Capote (1924-1984) - original name Truman Streckfus Persons<br /> <br /> <br /> ==Study Guide==<br /> Below are the thirteen major sections of the [[novella]]. Since Capote did not use chapters, these are indicated by the double line break on the page. There might be more sections, or a more logical means of distinguishing them, but these arbitrary divisions will work for our purposes.<br /> <br /> #[[Breakfast at Tiffany's Section 1|Section one (3-14)]]<br /> #[[Breakfast at Tiffany's Section 2|Section two (14-47)]]<br /> #[[Breakfast at Tiffany's Section 3|Section three (47-53)]]<br /> #[[Breakfast at Tiffany's Section 4|Section four (53-55)]]<br /> #[[Breakfast at Tiffany's Section 5|Section five (55-63)]]<br /> #[[Breakfast at Tiffany's Section 6|Section six (63-72)]]<br /> #[[Breakfast at Tiffany's Section 7|Section seven (72-74)]]<br /> #[[Breakfast at Tiffany's Section 8|Section eight (74-85)]]<br /> #[[Breakfast at Tiffany's Section 9|Section nine (85-93)]]<br /> #[[Breakfast at Tiffany's Section 10|Section ten (93-97)]]<br /> #[[Breakfast at Tiffany's Section 11|Section eleven (97-104)]]<br /> #[[Breakfast at Tiffany's Section 12|Section twelve (104-109)]]<br /> #[[Breakfast at Tiffany's Section 13|Section thirteen (109-111)]]<br /> <br /> ==Characters==<br /> ===Paul/Narrator===<br /> An aspiring writer who lives above Holly in his New York apartment. He is affectionately referred to as &quot;Fred&quot; by Holly until her brother dies. He enjoys drinking bourbon and reading Simenon. He becomes friends with Holly and Joe Bell and he later falls in love with Holly. He seems to be a passive man, and is suspected of being homosexual due to the lack of sexual nature of his and Holly's relationship. <br /> <br /> ===Holly Golightly===<br /> True name is Lulamae Barnes. At age 14 she married Doc Golightly near Tulip, Texas. Her parents both passed away from TB, and she was sent to stay with some ‘mean people’ approximately 100 miles east of Tulip. She and her brother, Fred, ran away and would steal in order to eat. After being caught stealing by one of Doc’s daughters, he fell in love with her and asked her to marry him. Though she ran away from him at age 14, she feels she owes a lot to Doc because he gave her confidence in herself. Discovered in California by O.J. Berman, she was given French lessons to rid her of her country accent, and modeled after Margaret Sullavan. Later she posed as niece to Sally Tomato in exchange for money to deliver ‘weather reports’ from Sing Sing to his lawyer.<br /> <br /> Just shy of being 19 at the beginning of the story, Holly is described physically as ageless, having short, boy styled hair with a hodgepodge of colors including white blonde and yellow streaks(self colored), and being thin but a clean and healthy look about her. Her cheeks are pink and she has very large mouth and warm, blue, green, and brown eyes, which she hides behind large, prescription sunglasses at all hours. Her nose is turned up at the end, like a pixie. She is always well groomed, with a tendency to dress in good taste, but plainly, in grays and blues which seems to make her shine even more.<br /> <br /> Holly believes strongly in being free to roam where ever her whim should take her. Although she resides in apartment 2 of the brownstone, she seems to not have a home. Her inability to keep up with her apartment key, her nameless cat, and the sparse furnishings in her apartment illustrate well her lack of commitment to one place or thing. Even her mail box card is non-committing : Miss Holiday Golightly, Traveling. Although she seems so free spirited, later in the novella we find that she desperately does want to find a place to call her own; a place that makes her feel secure as Tiffany’s does.<br /> <br /> Holly smokes Picayunes, a type of cigarette; which irony is found when one realizes in Spanish it means “something of very little value, a trifle.” On occasion she also confessed to smoking marijuana, and seems to be a drinker. She loyally reads tabloids, travel folders, and astrological charts, as well as letters from her brother overseas. She plays the guitar very well (taught to her by Doc) and sings a little. Although her profession is never named, she makes it part of her job to study horses and baseball, and trained herself to like men over 40 who give her considerable amounts of money to visit the powder room. Holly considers herself bisexual. <br /> <br /> She has no qualms about lying when it amuses or benefits her. She seems to have loyalties to no one except for her brother, Fred, with whom she fantasizes about having a horse farm near the sea in Mexico. Being rich and famous is in the top of her priorities. The narrator describes her as a lop sided romantic, as well as a crude exhibitionist, a time waster, and an utter fake. <br /> <br /> Holly is a spunky 19 year old woman who goes her own way and does her own thing. She is a bit of a vagabond. She only stays in one place for so long. If something starts to go awry, she will pack up her stuff and move on to another place. She lives in apartment #2 of a brownstone apartment complex in New York City. Her apartment reflects her personality, for it always has the look of being just moved in to, and the look of just about to be moved out of.<br /> <br /> ===Joe Bell===<br /> Owner of a quiet bar on Lexington Avenue, referred to as Joe Bell's. Physically described to be small, with fine coarse white hair, a sloping bony face better suited to a tall person, and a complexion which always appears sunburnt. He has a froggy voice. Suspected to be homosexual. Devoted to and loves Holly; took numerous phone messages for her when she was in New York, and through out the years during her absence has constantly looked for her in the streets. He doesn't have an easy nature, self described due to being a bachelor and having a sour stomach, which he regularly self medicates with Tums. He is very difficult to talk to unless you are interested in Holly, ice hockey, Weimaraner dogs, Our Gal Sunday (Soap serial on for 15 years), and Gilbert or Sullivan. Has a froggy voice. He's talented at flower arranging, and keeps fresh flowers in his bar.<br /> <br /> ===I. Y. Yunioshi===<br /> Mistakenly said to be from Japan by Bell; but truly from California. He is a photographer featured in a magazine called Winchell, and lived in the studio apartment, top floor of brownstone, during Holly’s time living there. <br /> <br /> ===Negro man from Africa===<br /> Tall, delicate, man, who wore a calico skirt. He is a talented wood sculptor from the S Tribe, in Tococul, East Anglia. He was photographed by Yunioshi on Christmas Day in 1956, depicting him with a &quot;shy, yet vain smile, displaying in his hands an odd wood sculpture,&quot; of the head of Holly Golightly (p6). Shared a mat with Holly Golightly in Spring of that same year.<br /> <br /> ===Madame Sapphia Spanella===<br /> Tenant of brownstone. Described as a husky, coloratura (a singer, usually a soprano, who specializes in music characterized by trills and runs) who goes roller-skating every afternoon in Central Park. She began a petition in brownstone to evict Holly for being “morally objectionable and the perpetrator of all night gatherings that endanger the safety and sanity of her neighbors (p. 64).”<br /> <br /> ===Sid Arbuck===<br /> Escorted Holly home the first evening Fred sees her. He picked up the check for five of her friends, whom he did not know, and expected to stay the evening with her. Apparently he did not succeed due to giving her only twenty cents to go to the powder-room. <br /> <br /> ===Fred===<br /> Holly’s favorite of four brothers. He was the only one who would let her hug him when it was cold as children. Described to be 6’2” and ‘slow’ or ‘stupid’. Was in the 8th grade for three years, then was drafted into the army where he died. <br /> <br /> ===Sally Tomato===<br /> Looks like a monk with gold teeth to Holly. He speaks very little English. While in Sing Sing prison, he was visited every Thursday by Golightly, and gives her a “weather report”. Suspected to be Black hand Mafia. At one time he would hang out at Joe Bell’s often, but didn’t socialize with anyone.<br /> <br /> ===O.J. Berman===<br /> An agent who met Holly at Santa Anita, CA when she was 15. Smokes cigars, wears Knize cologne. Wears elevated heals, appears to be a midget, freckled, large head, bald, pointed elven ears, Pekingese eyes which are bulged and unpitying. Hair sprouts from his ears and nose, and has hairy hands. He has a jerky metallic rhythm to his speech. Considers himself sensitive, and loves Holly. <br /> <br /> ===Benny Polan===<br /> Asked Holly to marry him; he spent thousands of dollars sending her to psychiatrists. <br /> <br /> ===Cecil B. DeMille &amp; Gary Cooper===<br /> Actors starring in The Story of Dr Wassell.<br /> <br /> ===Rutherford (Rusty) Trawler===<br /> Middle aged, baby faced, fat and appeared to be a spoiled child. Lost both parents in 1908 at age 5, his father a victim of anarchist and his mother died of shock. This made him instantly a millionaire and celebrity. His godfather arrested for sodomy due to him, and has divorced 3 times. He offered to marry Unity Mitford if Hitler didn’t, thus was referred to as a Nazi by many. Attended rallies in Yorkville. Acts as though he should be in diapers, Holly said he should be wearing a skirt. Talks in a whiney voice. Thinks girls are literally dolls. And although believed to be homosexual, he marries Mag Wildwood. <br /> <br /> ===Mag Wildwood (Margaret Thatcher Fitzhue Wildwood)===<br /> Her home town is Wildwood, Arkansas. Models for Yunioshi for the Bazaar. Described to be extremely thin, flat chested, and over 6 feet tall, with a stutter that she over exaggerates. She lives at the Winslow. All men in her family were soldiers, and there is a statue of her father in Wildwood. She is very proud of her country, and considers herself a warmhearted person. She knits. Temporarily roomed with Holly and was engaged to Jose. <br /> <br /> ===Jose Ybarra-Jaegar=== <br /> A Brazilian with a German mother. He aims to be the president of Brazil. Has a strong latin accent, originally Wildwood’s lover and became Holly’s. He is described to be intelligent, presentable, and very serious about his work, which is related to the government. He is in Washington 3 days a week. His priorities are his name and work, and broke his engagement with Holly due to her publicity with Sally Tomato.<br /> <br /> ===Mildred Grossman=== <br /> A girl who went to school with the narrator. Described as a top heavy realist with moist hair greasy glasses covering flat eyes. She dissected frogs and went to picket lines, only examined stars to gauge their chemical tonnage. Compared to Holly by the narrator to be a Siamese twin; they would never change because they’d been given their character too soon. (p.58)<br /> <br /> ===Doc Golightly===<br /> Farmer, horse doctor, and husband of Holly/Lulamae, from Tulip, Texas. He is described to be very provocative, early fifties w/ a hard weathered face, and gray forlorn eyes. He appeared in New York outside the brownstone wearing an old sweat-stained gray hat, a pale blue, cheap summer suit, loose on his lanky frame. He wore brand new brown shoes. He likes to whistle, and has a very countrified drawl. Smells of tobacco and sweat, and keeps a toothpick in his mouth to chew on. He is very forward when speaking with the narrator. He came via Greyhound to see Holly/Lulamae. His first wife passed away on July 4th 1936, and married Holly/Lulamae December 38 when she was just shy of age 14.<br /> <br /> ===Nellie=== <br /> Doc’s oldest daughter, discovered Fred and Lulamae stealing milk and turkey eggs.<br /> <br /> ==Major Themes==<br /> ===Delight in the Unorthodox===<br /> Plimpton writes that the theme in ''Breakfast at Tiffany’s'' is that there are special, strange gifted people in the world and they have to be treated with understanding (175). When something is unorthodox it breaks with convention or tradition. All of the characters in the novella ''Breakfast at Tiffany's'' took delight in unique unorthodox ways. Homosexuality was considered to be unorthodox in the fifties and some people even consider it to be unorthodox today.<br /> <br /> Holly Golightly was unorthodox by leaving her husband and by embracing homosexuality like she did. Tison Pugh writes, &quot;...we can see that Holly's friendships with gay men are one sign of her progressive sexual politics&quot; (2). Holly believed in things that were unconventional and unorthodox. Paul Levine writes that,&quot;...Holly too is a hard-headed romantic, a [http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=pragmatic pragmatic] [http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=idealist idealist]&quot; (351). Holly definitely took delight in her unorthodox ways. Not only did Holly Golightly take delight in her unorthodox ways, but the narrator also took delight in his unorthodox ways.<br /> <br /> The narrator was more content with just being himself than he was with fitting the mold. Holly Golightly says that all straight men either like baseball or horses, and in her apartment there are books about horses and baseball. The narrator goes over to the book shelf and pretends to be interested when he says, &quot;Pretending an interest in horseflesh and How to Tell It gave me sufficiently private opportunity for sizing Holly's friends&quot; (Capote 35). If the narrator had liked baseball he would have picked up a book on baseball instead of pretending he liked horses. In other words the narrator is gay, and he is not really concerned with other's thoughts. <br /> <br /> Joe Bell is also a different type of character. He owns a bar, pops tums like candy, and takes care of flowers. Joe Bell's hobbies are hockey players, [http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art4814.asp weimaraner dogs], and [http://math.boisestate.edu/GaS/ Gilbert and Sullivan] (Capote 4). The narrator even goes on to say that Joe Bell is related to either Gilbert or Sullivan. &quot;Since Sullivan is rumored to be have been a homosexual...the passage slyly hints that the bartender is part of Sullivan's family, a fellow gay man to his beloved composer&quot; (Tison 2). Joe Bell also &quot;arranges flowers with matronly care&quot; (Capote 5). In today's society a masculine straight man does not arrange flowers with matronly care. All three of the main characters took delight in their unorthodox ways.<br /> <br /> ===Quest for Home/Belonging===<br /> <br /> Holly Golightly is a pure example of someone that is untameable. It's no wonder how she got that way. Doc Golightly, her husband, says, &quot;Story was: their mother died of TB ([http://www.cdc.gov/nchstp/tb/faqs/qa.htm Tuberculosis]), and their papa done the same - and all the churren, a whole raft of 'em, they been sent off to live with different mean people&quot; (Capote 68). From that line it is obvious that Holly Golightly never really had a home. She appears to spend the rest of her time trying to find one.<br /> <br /> One home that Holly has is at Tiffany's. Holly says, &quot;It calms me down right away, the quietness and proud look of it; nothing bad could happen to you there, not with those kind of men in their nice suits, and that lovely smell of silver and alligator wallets. If I could find a real life place that made me feel like Tiffany's, then I'd buy some furniture and give the cat a name&quot; (Capote 40). Matthew Cash states that this scene shows Holly's innocence and search for a home (3).<br /> <br /> Holly spends much of her time trying to belong to something or someone while at the same time trying not to. Perhaps she had abandonment issues. &quot;On the first night that Holly came to visit the narrator in his appartment she ends up sleeping beside him, showing that Holly needs someone who is comforting instead of lusting toward her&quot; (Cash 4). Perhaps Holly just needed to feel a love that didn't require anything back of her. Holly was human and she desired love, but at the same time she retreated when the narrator asked her why she was crying. Holly jumps up and heads for the window while hollering, &quot;I hate snoops&quot; (Capote 27). Holly had a desire for a home and a place to belong, but she appeared to be very leary of it all.<br /> <br /> ===Never Love a Wild Thing===<br /> <br /> Holly Golightly considered herself to be wild. She gives Joe Bell this speach and she says, &quot;Never love a wild thing, Mr. Bell...That was Doc's mistake. He was always lugging home wild things. A hawk with a hurt wing. One time it was a full-grown bobcat with a broken leg. But you can't give your heart to a wild thing: the more you do, the stronger they get. Until they're strong enough to run into the woods. Or fly into a tree. then a taller tree. Then the sky. That's how you'll end up, Mr. Bell. If you let yourself love a wild thing. You'll end up looking at the sky&quot; (Capote 74).<br /> <br /> Holly goes on to say, &quot;Good luck: and believe me, dearest Doc - it's better to look at the sky than live there. Such an empty place; so vague. Just a country where the thunder goes and things disappear&quot; (Capote 74). In one sentence she is telling Joe Bell not to love a wild thing and in the next she is admitting how unhappy she is. In the beginning of the story Joe Bell admits his love for Holly when he says, &quot;Sure I loved her. But it wasn't that I wanted to touch her&quot; (Capote 9). Maybe Holly knew about Joe Bell's love and was trying to warn him not to love her. While Holly admitted that she was wild she also admitted that she was unhappy.<br /> <br /> ===Joy/Difficulty of Traveling===<br /> <br /> Holly Golightly is a traveler who is searching for somewhere to call home. She even goes so far as to say:&quot;...home is where you feel at home. I'm still looking,&quot; she says (Capote 102). Everything she does throughout the book is based on that very way she looks at life (Cash). &quot;I'll never get used to anything. Anybody that does, they might as well be dead&quot; (Capote 19). <br /> <br /> Holly only seems to find happiness for a short time and it is quickly followed by something that drives her away. She has bad memories of almost every step of the way. From her marriage to Doc in Texas to her many male callers in New York, there is always something that drives at her. <br /> <br /> Holly's age, inexperience, and lack of direction may contribute to her inability to be happy. Her age is revealed by the narrarator:&quot;I thought her anywhere between sixteen and thirty; as it turned out, she was shy two months of her nineteenth birthday.&quot;(Capote 12-13). Her inexperience and young age has her unsure what she really wants out of her life. Holly would finally come to realization after losing her no-name cat. And even at the end of the novel, she is still in search of home.<br /> <br /> ==Major Symbols==<br /> ===Tiffany &amp; Co. ===<br /> <br /> Tiffany's is a jewelry store Holly feels is the best place for her to calm down and feel at home. She explains it as the cure for her &quot;mean reds&quot; to the narrarator (Cash):&quot;What I've found does the most good is just to get into a taxi and go to Tiffany's,&quot; Holly says (Capote 40).<br /> <br /> Tiffany's also symbolizes what Holly is searching for: a place she feels she belongs. A place she feels no harm can be done to her and she feels safe around men in particular.&quot;It calms me down right away, the quietness and the proud look of it; nothing very bad could happen to you there, not with those kind men in their nice suits, and that lovely smell of silver and alligator wallets&quot; (Capote 40).<br /> <br /> ===The &quot;Mean Reds&quot;===<br /> <br /> The &quot;mean reds&quot; was a reoccuring problem Holly has. The narrarator first associated the &quot;mean reds&quot; with the blues (Cash). Holly is quick to denounce that theory. &quot;No, the blues are because you're getting fat or maybe it's been raining too long. You're sad, that's all. But the mean reds are horrible. You're afraid and you sweat like hell, but you don't know what you're afraid of. Except something bad is going to happen, only you don't know what it is&quot;(Capote 40). The narrarator makes another attempt to give an explanation by calling it angst, claiming everyone feels that same way (Cash). Holly takes the suggestion of Rusty Trawler and smokes marijuana and took an aspirin.<br /> <br /> ===The Fat Lady===<br /> The fat lady was the female detective that wore the civilian clothes. The fat lady hair was &quot; thick yellow braids roped around her head.&quot; The fat lady detective talk in a baby voice. She told Holly &quot;come along, sister.&quot; You're going places.&quot; At this time, Holly did not want the fat lady hands touching her. Holly said: &quot;Get them cotton-pickin hands off of me, you dreary,driveling old bull-dyke.&quot; This made the fat lady angry, so she slapped Holly so damned hard across her face,her head spinned to her over shoulder. As the detectives started to escort Holly down the stairs, she yells &quot;please feed the cat.&quot;<br /> <br /> ===The Cat===<br /> Although Holly tries to act like the cat doesn't really matter to her as a possession, she really does feel that it belongs to her. Holly never really admits this fact until she leaves the cat, then can't find it. &quot;Oh Jesus God. we did belong to each other. He was mine.&quot; (Capote 109) The cat is one of the few things that holly truly feels is hers. Every time the cat appears in the story he seems to be the exact opposite of Holly, or acting in a complete opposite manner as Holly. &quot;Her at losing her nameless, battered &quot;slob&quot; of a cat, far from being a sentimental excess on her part (and the narrator's), is an intensely serious expression of profound fear of relinquishment.&quot; (Nance) Holly shares a feeling of not belonging and acting on a moments notice with the cat. &quot;Like the ugly tom cat she picks up by the river one day, her existence is improvised&quot; (Hassan) Holly finally shows her fear of &quot;perpetual homelessness&quot; (Hassan) when she drops the cat off in Spanish Harlem, and after not being able to find it says: “I’m very scared, Buster. Yes, at last. Because it could go on forever. Not knowing what's yours until you've thrown it away.&quot; (Capote 109)<br /> <br /> ===The Bird Cage===<br /> <br /> The narrator gives Holly the bird cage as a gift. The bird cage cost three-hundred fifty dollars. The bird cage came from Tiffany's. In return Holly gives the narrtor a Saint Christopher's Metal.<br /> <br /> ==Influences==<br /> The somewhat &quot;curious&quot; title &lt;i&gt;Breakfast at Tiffany's&lt;/i&gt; was inspired by a man from out-of-town that Capote heard about, who was &quot;ignorant of New York&quot; (Plimpton 161). As Plimpton asserts, when the man was asked to pick from the best restaurants in New York where to eat breakfast, he replied: &quot;Well, let's have breakfast at Tiffany's,&quot; which was the only place he knew of (161).<br /> <br /> Capote's life had a great deal of influence on the novella. Capote was a teenager when he began writing books, and the narrator also was a writer in his teens. Capote once said, &quot;I always knew that I wanted to be a writer and that I wanted to be rich and famous&quot; (Krebs). The narrator wanted to be a success early in life, and Capote expressed himself in the same sense. He knew &quot;[he] had to be successful, and [he] had to be successful early&quot; (Krebs). Capote turned into an alcholic because of his drinking at a young age. The narrator was also a heavy drinker. Holly and the narrator would go to the bar and drink many times. Capote was also a homosexual; his partner was Jack Dunphy [http://www.axiongraphicx.com/Capote.html]. In the novella, when the narrator is looking through Holly's book collection, he realizes that she only owns books about horses and baseball. The narrator has no interest in either subjuct. Holly mentions her love for horses and explains to the narrator how she does not like baseball at all, but she reads books about it for research purposes. Holly informs the narrator that if a man does not like either subject then she is in trouble any way because he does not like girls. The narrator's life in the novella is almost a mirror image of Capote.<br /> <br /> In real life, Truman Capote's mother's name was Lillie Mae [http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/capote.htm] which is very similar to the real name he chose to give Holly of Lulamae. It is also interesting that the narrator in the novella is an aspiring writer just as Capote had been when he moved to New York and he also is given the same birthday as Capote which is September 30th. <br /> <br /> Some have said that Capote's works were possibly influenced by the works of Edgar Allan Poe, but looking closely to Capote's own life experiences, this novella seems to be solely influenced by his own life with a bit of a flare. He was inspired by the women in his life to create Holly Golightly's character. As Clarke asserts, Capote modeled “his scatty central character...on half a dozen of the charming young beauties he had squired around Manhattan during and after World War II” (64). One woman who likes to take credit for inspiring Holly's character is Doris Lilly, who was like a sister to Capote in his youth. She actually lived in a “brownstone walk-up on East Seventy-eighth Street, exactly [like] the one in the book,” and says “there’s an awful lot of [her] in Holly Golightly” (Lilly 164).<br /> <br /> ==Other Novella's and Novels==<br /> * Summer Crossing<br /> <br /> * Other Voices, Other Rooms<br /> <br /> * The Grass Harp<br /> <br /> * The Muses Are Heard<br /> <br /> * Breakfast at Tiffany's<br /> <br /> * The Thanksgiving Visitor<br /> <br /> * Summer Crossing<br /> ==Time Line==<br /> * 1943 Summer Crossing<br /> * 1945 &quot;Miriam&quot;<br /> * 1948 Other Voices, Other Rooms<br /> * 1949 A Tree of Night and Other Stories<br /> * 1951 The Grass Harp - Novel<br /> * 1952 The Grass Harp - Play<br /> * 1953 Beat the Devil<br /> * 1954 House of Flowers<br /> * 1956 The Muses Are Heard<br /> * 1956 &quot;A Christmas Memory&quot;<br /> * 1957 &quot;The Duke in His Domain&quot;<br /> * 1958 Breakfast at Tiffany's<br /> * 1960 The Innocents<br /> * 1963 The Collected Writings of Truman Capote<br /> * 1966 In Cold Blood<br /> * 1968 The Thanksgiving Visitor<br /> * 1971 The Great Gatsby<br /> * 1975 &quot;Mojave&quot; and &quot;La Cote Basque, 1965&quot;<br /> * 1976 &quot;Unspoiled Monsters&quot; and &quot;Kate McCloud&quot;<br /> * 1980 Music for Chameleons<br /> * 1986 Answered Prayers: The Unfinished Novel<br /> * 2005 Summer Crossing - * Previously unpublished Novel<br /> <br /> ==Additional Resources==<br /> *Capote, Truman. &lt;em&gt;The Complete Stories of Truman Capote.&lt;/em&gt; New York: The Random House Publishing Group, 2004.<br /> *Clarke, Gerald. &lt;i&gt;Capote: A Biography&lt;/i&gt;. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1988.<br /> *Garsen, Helen S. &lt;i&gt;Truman Capote&lt;/i&gt;. New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Company, 1980.<br /> *Goyen, William. &quot;That Old Valentine Maker.&quot; New York Times Book Review. November 1958:5,38.<br /> <br /> ==Works Cited==<br /> *Capote, Truman. ''Breakfast at Tiffany's''. New York: Vintage Books - A division of Random House, 1993.<br /> *Cash, Matthew. ''The Breakfast at Tiffany's Homepage''. 1996. University of Michigan. 14 March 2006. &lt;www.personal.umich.edu/~bcash/criticalanalysis.html&gt;<br /> *Clarke, Gerald. ''Too Brief a Treat: The Letters of Truman Capote''. New York: Random House, 2004.<br /> *Grzesiak, Rich. &quot;My Significant Other, Truman Capote&quot;. [http://axiongrafix.com/capote.html]. 1987.<br /> *Hassan, Ihab H. &quot;Wisconsin Studies in Contemporary Literature&quot;. Vol.1, No.2. Spring, 1960. pp.5-21<br /> *Krebs, Albin. &quot;Truman Capote Is Dead at 59; Novelist of Style and Clarity&quot;. The New York Times on the web. 28 Aug.1984 &lt;www.nytimes.com/books/97/12/28/home/capote-obit.html&gt;<br /> *Levine, Paul. ''Book Review of Breakfeast at Tiffany's/Levine''. The Georgia Review.3/(1959): 350-352<br /> *Lilly, Doris. ''Truman Capote: In Which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintances, and Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career''. Ed. George Plimpton. New York: Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, 1997.<br /> *Nance, Willaim L.&quot;The Worlds of Truman Capote, Stein and Day&quot; 1970.Contemporary Literary Criticism.<br /> *Plimpton, George. ''Truman Capote: In Which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintances,and Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career''. New York: Doubleday Dell Publishing Group. 1997.<br /> *Pugh, Tison. ''Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's''. ''The Explicator''. 6/(2002): 51-53<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> [[Category:Literature]]</div>

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<p>Rscot899: </p> <hr /> <div>== Summary ==<br /> Section eight begins with the title to a shocking newspaper clipping. It reads, &quot;Trawler marries fourth&quot; (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 buys a paper and finishes the headline. He soon realizes Rusty has married Mag, not Holly! <br /> <br /> 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 &quot;her sickness is only grief&quot; (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 &quot;Fred.&quot;<br /> <br /> Jose moves in with Holly, replacing Mag as her roommate, and Holly stops caring so much about her appearance. &quot;Her hair darkened, she put on weight. She became rather careless about her clothes...&quot; (80). However, the narrator describes her as seeming &quot;more content, altogether happier than [he'd] ever seen her&quot; (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.<br /> <br /> 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. She tells the narrator &quot;If I were free to, I would not pick Jose&quot; (82). The narrator, after hearing so much about Jose begins to dislike him. He even stops saying Jose's name while he is speaking to Holly and simply refers to Jose as &quot;Him.&quot; <br /> <br /> One day, on an outing, Holly observes ships sailing by and exclaims, &quot;one day, one of those ships will bring me back, me and my nine Brazilian brats&quot; (84). The narrator, tired of hearing about her &quot;brats&quot; and Jose, interrupts by saying &quot;Do shut up&quot; (84). He clearly feels left out, &quot;like a tug boat in dry-dock while she, glittery voyager of secure destination, [steams] down the harbor with whistles whistling and confetti in the air&quot; (84).<br /> <br /> == Notes ==<br /> *'''&quot;The now defunct newspaper, ''PM''&quot;''' (75) - A left-wing daily newspaper in New York City, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PM_%28newspaper%29 ''PM''] stood for &quot;Picture Magazine,&quot; 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''.<br /> <br /> *'''&quot;A Parke-Bernet Auction&quot;''' (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.<br /> <br /> *'''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 &quot;yellow journalism&quot;] and waas a leader of the liberal wing of the Democratic party from 1896 to 1935.<br /> <br /> *'''Modern Library''' (80) - A division of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_House Randolph House Publishers]. Founded in 1917, it identified itself as &quot;The Modern Library of the World's Best Books.&quot;<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''Waring mixer''' (80) - [http://www.waringproducts.com Waring] is a leading manufacturer of small appliances for the home, food service, and laboratory industries.<br /> <br /> *'''Hausfrau''' (80) - Translated from German to English, &quot;housewife.&quot;<br /> <br /> *'''Outré''' (81) - Highly unconventional; eccentric or bizarre.<br /> <br /> *'''Terrapin''' (81) - An [http://images.google.com/images?q=terrapin&amp;hl=en amphibious reptile turtle] that can live in the water and on land.<br /> <br /> *'''&quot;Nero-ish novelties&quot;''' (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].<br /> <br /> *'''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 &quot;dry fruit,&quot; is an edible fruit borne by some species of the genus [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diospyros ''Diospyros''].<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''Joss sticks''' (84) - Slender sticks of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incense incense] burned before a Chinese image, idol, or shrine.<br /> <br /> == Commentary ==<br /> Capote seems to have known someone in his life that he loved as much as the narrator loves Holly.&quot; 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&quot; (Kimbofo). On the other hand, he may have intended to spark a female movement of freedom to do what they want.&quot; &lt;i&gt;BaT&lt;/i&gt; &quot;inspired women to pack their bags and seek their fortunes in New York and all over the country&quot; (Cash). If this was his goal, then he certainly achieved it! In any case, he portrays very well his anguish upon &quot;learning&quot; that Holly has married Rusty. [[Image:breakfast.gif|thumb|Holly]]These emotions of desire, love, jealousy, and loneliness 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 &quot;party girl-about-town and exuberant phony&quot; that he knew becomes a mostly content stay-at-home wife (Prior). <br /> <br /> 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 &quot;non-rat&quot; 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 &quot;rats,&quot; but she forces herself to see an allure in them. &quot;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&quot; (Cash).<br /> <br /> 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 &quot;plan&quot; 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, &quot;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&quot; (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. &quot;...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&quot; (Pugh). Pugh suggests that Holly's friendship with gay men are one sign of her progressive sexual politics. Holly states, &quot;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&quot; (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. <br /> <br /> Regardless of her true intentions, this section ends with the narrator giving a wonderful metaphor. &quot;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&quot; (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.<br /> <br /> == Study Questions ==<br /> #Who is it that the narrator believes Holly has married?<br /> #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 &quot;were under the wheels of the train&quot;?<br /> #Who turns out to be the woman that has gotten married?<br /> #What is Dr. Goldman's explanation for Holly's fit?<br /> #What is the real reason for Holly's fit?<br /> #Whose name replaces Mag Wildwood's on Holly's mailbox?<br /> #Holly mentions something of importance to the narrator, while she is talking about her feelings for Jose. What is it?<br /> #Holly says that she would rather have cancer than a what?<br /> #In your opinion, how does Capote relate to the narrator in real life as far as his relationship with Holly?<br /> #What name does Holly give the narrator after her brother dies?<br /> #What kind of boat does the narrator relate himself to? What kind of boat does he picture Holly as?<br /> #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?<br /> <br /> == External Resources ==<br /> *[http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/capote.htm Books and Writers: Truman Capote]. 2003<br /> *[http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/capote_t.html American Masters: Truman Capote]<br /> <br /> == Works Cited ==<br /> *Cash, Matthew. [http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bcash/criticalanalysis.html A Travelin' Through the Pastures of the Sky: A Critical Analysis of &lt;i&gt;Breakfast at Tiffany's&lt;/i&gt;]. 1996.<br /> *Kimbofo. [http://kimbofo.typepad.com/readingmatters/2006/01/breakfast_at_ti.html &lt;i&gt;Breakfast at Tiffany's&lt;/i&gt; Reviews]. &quot;Reading Matters.&quot; 17 January 2006. 18 March 2006.<br /> *Prior, Lily. [http://www.jp41.dial.pipex.com/R735.html &lt;i&gt;Breakfast at Tiffany's&lt;/i&gt; Review]. 18 March 2006.<br /> *Pugh, Tison. &quot;Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's.&quot; The Explicator 6.1 (Fall 2002): 51-53.<br /> ----<br /> [[Breakfast at Tiffany's Section 7|Section seven]] | [[Breakfast at Tiffany's]] | [[Breakfast at Tiffany's Section 9|Section nine]]<br /> <br /> [[Category:Literature]]</div>

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<p>Rscot899: </p> <hr /> <div>==Factual Information==<br /> A [[novel]]/[[novella]] by American writer [[Truman Capote]] published in 1958 by Random House, Inc., New York.<br /> <br /> http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/capote.htm Truman Capote (1924-1984) - original name Truman Streckfus Persons<br /> <br /> <br /> ==Study Guide==<br /> Below are the thirteen major sections of the [[novella]]. Since Capote did not use chapters, these are indicated by the double line break on the page. There might be more sections, or a more logical means of distinguishing them, but these arbitrary divisions will work for our purposes.<br /> <br /> #[[Breakfast at Tiffany's Section 1|Section one (3-14)]]<br /> #[[Breakfast at Tiffany's Section 2|Section two (14-47)]]<br /> #[[Breakfast at Tiffany's Section 3|Section three (47-53)]]<br /> #[[Breakfast at Tiffany's Section 4|Section four (53-55)]]<br /> #[[Breakfast at Tiffany's Section 5|Section five (55-63)]]<br /> #[[Breakfast at Tiffany's Section 6|Section six (63-72)]]<br /> #[[Breakfast at Tiffany's Section 7|Section seven (72-74)]]<br /> #[[Breakfast at Tiffany's Section 8|Section eight (74-85)]]<br /> #[[Breakfast at Tiffany's Section 9|Section nine (85-93)]]<br /> #[[Breakfast at Tiffany's Section 10|Section ten (93-97)]]<br /> #[[Breakfast at Tiffany's Section 11|Section eleven (97-104)]]<br /> #[[Breakfast at Tiffany's Section 12|Section twelve (104-109)]]<br /> #[[Breakfast at Tiffany's Section 13|Section thirteen (109-111)]]<br /> <br /> ==Characters==<br /> ===Paul/Narrator===<br /> An aspiring writer who lives above Holly in his New York apartment. He is affectionately referred to as &quot;Fred&quot; by Holly until her brother dies. He enjoys drinking bourbon and reading Simenon. He becomes friends with Holly and Joe Bell and he later falls in love with Holly. He seems to be a passive man, and is suspected of being homosexual due to the lack of sexual nature of his and Holly's relationship. <br /> <br /> ===Holly Golightly===<br /> True name is Lulamae Barnes. At age 14 she married Doc Golightly near Tulip, Texas. Her parents both passed away from TB, and she was sent to stay with some ‘mean people’ approximately 100 miles east of Tulip. She and her brother, Fred, ran away and would steal in order to eat. After being caught stealing by one of Doc’s daughters, he fell in love with her and asked her to marry him. Though she ran away from him at age 14, she feels she owes a lot to Doc because he gave her confidence in herself. Discovered in California by O.J. Berman, she was given French lessons to rid her of her country accent, and modeled after Margaret Sullavan. Later she posed as niece to Sally Tomato in exchange for money to deliver ‘weather reports’ from Sing Sing to his lawyer.<br /> <br /> Just shy of being 19 at the beginning of the story, Holly is described physically as ageless, having short, boy styled hair with a hodgepodge of colors including white blonde and yellow streaks(self colored), and being thin but a clean and healthy look about her. Her cheeks are pink and she has very large mouth and warm, blue, green, and brown eyes, which she hides behind large, prescription sunglasses at all hours. Her nose is turned up at the end, like a pixie. She is always well groomed, with a tendency to dress in good taste, but plainly, in grays and blues which seems to make her shine even more.<br /> <br /> Holly believes strongly in being free to roam where ever her whim should take her. Although she resides in apartment 2 of the brownstone, she seems to not have a home. Her inability to keep up with her apartment key, her nameless cat, and the sparse furnishings in her apartment illustrate well her lack of commitment to one place or thing. Even her mail box card is non-committing : Miss Holiday Golightly, Traveling. Although she seems so free spirited, later in the novella we find that she desperately does want to find a place to call her own; a place that makes her feel secure as Tiffany’s does.<br /> <br /> Holly smokes Picayunes, a type of cigarette; which irony is found when one realizes in Spanish it means “something of very little value, a trifle.” On occasion she also confessed to smoking marijuana, and seems to be a drinker. She loyally reads tabloids, travel folders, and astrological charts, as well as letters from her brother overseas. She plays the guitar very well (taught to her by Doc) and sings a little. Although her profession is never named, she makes it part of her job to study horses and baseball, and trained herself to like men over 40 who give her considerable amounts of money to visit the powder room. Holly considers herself bisexual. <br /> <br /> She has no qualms about lying when it amuses or benefits her. She seems to have loyalties to no one except for her brother, Fred, with whom she fantasizes about having a horse farm near the sea in Mexico. Being rich and famous is in the top of her priorities. The narrator describes her as a lop sided romantic, as well as a crude exhibitionist, a time waster, and an utter fake. <br /> <br /> Holly is a spunky 19 year old woman who goes her own way and does her own thing. She is a bit of a vagabond. She only stays in one place for so long. If something starts to go awry, she will pack up her stuff and move on to another place. She lives in apartment #2 of a brownstone apartment complex in New York City. Her apartment reflects her personality, for it always has the look of being just moved in to, and the look of just about to be moved out of.<br /> <br /> ===Joe Bell===<br /> Owner of a quiet bar on Lexington Avenue, referred to as Joe Bell's. Physically described to be small, with fine coarse white hair, a sloping bony face better suited to a tall person, and a complexion which always appears sunburnt. He has a froggy voice. Suspected to be homosexual. Devoted to and loves Holly; took numerous phone messages for her when she was in New York, and through out the years during her absence has constantly looked for her in the streets. He doesn't have an easy nature, self described due to being a bachelor and having a sour stomach, which he regularly self medicates with Tums. He is very difficult to talk to unless you are interested in Holly, ice hockey, Weimaraner dogs, Our Gal Sunday (Soap serial on for 15 years), and Gilbert or Sullivan. Has a froggy voice. He's talented at flower arranging, and keeps fresh flowers in his bar.<br /> <br /> ===I. Y. Yunioshi===<br /> Mistakenly said to be from Japan by Bell; but truly from California. He is a photographer featured in a magazine called Winchell, and lived in the studio apartment, top floor of brownstone, during Holly’s time living there. <br /> <br /> ===Negro man from Africa===<br /> Tall, delicate, man, who wore a calico skirt. He is a talented wood sculptor from the S Tribe, in Tococul, East Anglia. He was photographed by Yunioshi on Christmas Day in 1956, depicting him with a &quot;shy, yet vain smile, displaying in his hands an odd wood sculpture,&quot; of the head of Holly Golightly (p6). Shared a mat with Holly Golightly in Spring of that same year.<br /> <br /> ===Madame Sapphia Spanella===<br /> Tenant of brownstone. Described as a husky, coloratura (a singer, usually a soprano, who specializes in music characterized by trills and runs) who goes roller-skating every afternoon in Central Park. She began a petition in brownstone to evict Holly for being “morally objectionable and the perpetrator of all night gatherings that endanger the safety and sanity of her neighbors (p. 64).”<br /> <br /> ===Sid Arbuck===<br /> Escorted Holly home the first evening Fred sees her. He picked up the check for five of her friends, whom he did not know, and expected to stay the evening with her. Apparently he did not succeed due to giving her only twenty cents to go to the powder-room. <br /> <br /> ===Fred===<br /> Holly’s favorite of four brothers. He was the only one who would let her hug him when it was cold as children. Described to be 6’2” and ‘slow’ or ‘stupid’. Was in the 8th grade for three years, then was drafted into the army where he died. <br /> <br /> ===Sally Tomato===<br /> Looks like a monk with gold teeth to Holly. He speaks very little English. While in Sing Sing prison, he was visited every Thursday by Golightly, and gives her a “weather report”. Suspected to be Black hand Mafia. At one time he would hang out at Joe Bell’s often, but didn’t socialize with anyone.<br /> <br /> ===O.J. Berman===<br /> An agent who met Holly at Santa Anita, CA when she was 15. Smokes cigars, wears Knize cologne. Wears elevated heals, appears to be a midget, freckled, large head, bald, pointed elven ears, Pekingese eyes which are bulged and unpitying. Hair sprouts from his ears and nose, and has hairy hands. He has a jerky metallic rhythm to his speech. Considers himself sensitive, and loves Holly. <br /> <br /> ===Benny Polan===<br /> Asked Holly to marry him; he spent thousands of dollars sending her to psychiatrists. <br /> <br /> ===Cecil B. DeMille &amp; Gary Cooper===<br /> Actors starring in The Story of Dr Wassell.<br /> <br /> ===Rutherford (Rusty) Trawler===<br /> Middle aged, baby faced, fat and appeared to be a spoiled child. Lost both parents in 1908 at age 5, his father a victim of anarchist and his mother died of shock. This made him instantly a millionaire and celebrity. His godfather arrested for sodomy due to him, and has divorced 3 times. He offered to marry Unity Mitford if Hitler didn’t, thus was referred to as a Nazi by many. Attended rallies in Yorkville. Acts as though he should be in diapers, Holly said he should be wearing a skirt. Talks in a whiney voice. Thinks girls are literally dolls. And although believed to be homosexual, he marries Mag Wildwood. <br /> <br /> ===Mag Wildwood (Margaret Thatcher Fitzhue Wildwood)===<br /> Her home town is Wildwood, Arkansas. Models for Yunioshi for the Bazaar. Described to be extremely thin, flat chested, and over 6 feet tall, with a stutter that she over exaggerates. She lives at the Winslow. All men in her family were soldiers, and there is a statue of her father in Wildwood. She is very proud of her country, and considers herself a warmhearted person. She knits. Temporarily roomed with Holly and was engaged to Jose. <br /> <br /> ===Jose Ybarra-Jaegar=== <br /> A Brazilian with a German mother. He aims to be the president of Brazil. Has a strong latin accent, originally Wildwood’s lover and became Holly’s. He is described to be intelligent, presentable, and very serious about his work, which is related to the government. He is in Washington 3 days a week. His priorities are his name and work, and broke his engagement with Holly due to her publicity with Sally Tomato.<br /> <br /> ===Mildred Grossman=== <br /> A girl who went to school with the narrator. Described as a top heavy realist with moist hair greasy glasses covering flat eyes. She dissected frogs and went to picket lines, only examined stars to gauge their chemical tonnage. Compared to Holly by the narrator to be a Siamese twin; they would never change because they’d been given their character too soon. (p.58)<br /> <br /> ===Doc Golightly===<br /> Farmer, horse doctor, and husband of Holly/Lulamae, from Tulip, Texas. He is described to be very provocative, early fifties w/ a hard weathered face, and gray forlorn eyes. He appeared in New York outside the brownstone wearing an old sweat-stained gray hat, a pale blue, cheap summer suit, loose on his lanky frame. He wore brand new brown shoes. He likes to whistle, and has a very countrified drawl. Smells of tobacco and sweat, and keeps a toothpick in his mouth to chew on. He is very forward when speaking with the narrator. He came via Greyhound to see Holly/Lulamae. His first wife passed away on July 4th 1936, and married Holly/Lulamae December 38 when she was just shy of age 14.<br /> <br /> ===Nellie=== <br /> Doc’s oldest daughter, discovered Fred and Lulamae stealing milk and turkey eggs.<br /> <br /> ==Major Themes==<br /> ===Delight in the Unorthodox===<br /> Plimpton writes that the theme in ''Breakfast at Tiffany’s'' is that there are special, strange gifted people in the world and they have to be treated with understanding (175). When something is unorthodox it breaks with convention or tradition. All of the characters in the novella ''Breakfast at Tiffany's'' took delight in unique unorthodox ways. Homosexuality was considered to be unorthodox in the fifties and some people even consider it to be unorthodox today.<br /> <br /> Holly Golightly was unorthodox by leaving her husband and by embracing homosexuality like she did. Tison Pugh writes, &quot;...we can see that Holly's friendships with gay men are one sign of her progressive sexual politics&quot; (2). Holly believed in things that were unconventional and unorthodox. Paul Levine writes that,&quot;...Holly too is a hard-headed romantic, a [http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=pragmatic pragmatic] [http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=idealist idealist]&quot; (351). Holly definitely took delight in her unorthodox ways. Not only did Holly Golightly take delight in her unorthodox ways, but the narrator also took delight in his unorthodox ways.<br /> <br /> The narrator was more content with just being himself than he was with fitting the mold. Holly Golightly says that all straight men either like baseball or horses, and in her apartment there are books about horses and baseball. The narrator goes over to the book shelf and pretends to be interested when he says, &quot;Pretending an interest in horseflesh and How to Tell It gave me sufficiently private opportunity for sizing Holly's friends&quot; (Capote 35). If the narrator had liked baseball he would have picked up a book on baseball instead of pretending he liked horses. In other words the narrator is gay, and he is not really concerned with other's thoughts. <br /> <br /> Joe Bell is also a different type of character. He owns a bar, pops tums like candy, and takes care of flowers. Joe Bell's hobbies are hockey players, [http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art4814.asp weimaraner dogs], and [http://math.boisestate.edu/GaS/ Gilbert and Sullivan] (Capote 4). The narrator even goes on to say that Joe Bell is related to either Gilbert or Sullivan. &quot;Since Sullivan is rumored to be have been a homosexual...the passage slyly hints that the bartender is part of Sullivan's family, a fellow gay man to his beloved composer&quot; (Tison 2). Joe Bell also &quot;arranges flowers with matronly care&quot; (Capote 5). In today's society a masculine straight man does not arrange flowers with matronly care. All three of the main characters took delight in their unorthodox ways.<br /> <br /> ===Quest for Home/Belonging===<br /> <br /> Holly Golightly is a pure example of someone that is untameable. It's no wonder how she got that way. Doc Golightly, her husband, says, &quot;Story was: their mother died of TB ([http://www.cdc.gov/nchstp/tb/faqs/qa.htm Tuberculosis]), and their papa done the same - and all the churren, a whole raft of 'em, they been sent off to live with different mean people&quot; (Capote 68). From that line it is obvious that Holly Golightly never really had a home. She appears to spend the rest of her time trying to find one.<br /> <br /> One home that Holly has is at Tiffany's. Holly says, &quot;It calms me down right away, the quietness and proud look of it; nothing bad could happen to you there, not with those kind of men in their nice suits, and that lovely smell of silver and alligator wallets. If I could find a real life place that made me feel like Tiffany's, then I'd buy some furniture and give the cat a name&quot; (Capote 40). Matthew Cash states that this scene shows Holly's innocence and search for a home (3).<br /> <br /> Holly spends much of her time trying to belong to something or someone while at the same time trying not to. Perhaps she had abandonment issues. &quot;On the first night that Holly came to visit the narrator in his appartment she ends up sleeping beside him, showing that Holly needs someone who is comforting instead of lusting toward her&quot; (Cash 4). Perhaps Holly just needed to feel a love that didn't require anything back of her. Holly was human and she desired love, but at the same time she retreated when the narrator asked her why she was crying. Holly jumps up and heads for the window while hollering, &quot;I hate snoops&quot; (Capote 27). Holly had a desire for a home and a place to belong, but she appeared to be very leary of it all.<br /> <br /> ===Never Love a Wild Thing===<br /> <br /> Holly Golightly considered herself to be wild. She gives Joe Bell this speach and she says, &quot;Never love a wild thing, Mr. Bell...That was Doc's mistake. He was always lugging home wild things. A hawk with a hurt wing. One time it was a full-grown bobcat with a broken leg. But you can't give your heart to a wild thing: the more you do, the stronger they get. Until they're strong enough to run into the woods. Or fly into a tree. then a taller tree. Then the sky. That's how you'll end up, Mr. Bell. If you let yourself love a wild thing. You'll end up looking at the sky&quot; (Capote 74).<br /> <br /> Holly goes on to say, &quot;Good luck: and believe me, dearest Doc - it's better to look at the sky than live there. Such an empty place; so vague. Just a country where the thunder goes and things disappear&quot; (Capote 74). In one sentence she is telling Joe Bell not to love a wild thing and in the next she is admitting how unhappy she is. In the beginning of the story Joe Bell admits his love for Holly when he says, &quot;Sure I loved her. But it wasn't that I wanted to touch her&quot; (Capote 9). Maybe Holly knew about Joe Bell's love and was trying to warn him not to love her. While Holly admitted that she was wild she also admitted that she was unhappy.<br /> <br /> ===Joy/Difficulty of Traveling===<br /> <br /> Holly Golightly is a traveler who is searching for somewhere to call home. She even goes so far as to say:&quot;...home is where you feel at home. I'm still looking,&quot; she says (Capote 102). Everything she does throughout the book is based on that very way she looks at life (Cash). &quot;I'll never get used to anything. Anybody that does, they might as well be dead&quot; (Capote 19). <br /> <br /> Holly only seems to find happiness for a short time and it is quickly followed by something that drives her away. She has bad memories of almost every step of the way. From her marriage to Doc in Texas to her many male callers in New York, there is always something that drives at her. <br /> <br /> Holly's age, inexperience, and lack of direction may contribute to her inability to be happy. Her age is revealed by the narrarator:&quot;I thought her anywhere between sixteen and thirty; as it turned out, she was shy two months of her nineteenth birthday.&quot;(Capote 12-13). Her inexperience and young age has her unsure what she really wants out of her life. Holly would finally come to realization after losing her no-name cat. And even at the end of the novel, she is still in search of home.<br /> <br /> ==Major Symbols==<br /> ===Tiffany &amp; Co. ===<br /> <br /> Tiffany's is a jewelry store Holly feels is the best place for her to calm down and feel at home. She explains it as the cure for her &quot;mean reds&quot; to the narrarator (Cash):&quot;What I've found does the most good is just to get into a taxi and go to Tiffany's,&quot; Holly says (Capote 40).<br /> <br /> Tiffany's also symbolizes what Holly is searching for: a place she feels she belongs. A place she feels no harm can be done to her and she feels safe around men in particular.&quot;It calms me down right away, the quietness and the proud look of it; nothing very bad could happen to you there, not with those kind men in their nice suits, and that lovely smell of silver and alligator wallets&quot; (Capote 40).<br /> <br /> ===The &quot;Mean Reds&quot;===<br /> <br /> The &quot;mean reds&quot; was a reoccuring problem Holly has. The narrarator first associated the &quot;mean reds&quot; with the blues (Cash). Holly is quick to denounce that theory. &quot;No, the blues are because you're getting fat or maybe it's been raining too long. You're sad, that's all. But the mean reds are horrible. You're afraid and you sweat like hell, but you don't know what you're afraid of. Except something bad is going to happen, only you don't know what it is&quot;(Capote 40). The narrarator makes another attempt to give an explanation by calling it angst, claiming everyone feels that same way (Cash). Holly takes the suggestion of Rusty Trawler and smokes marijuana and took an aspirin.<br /> <br /> ===The Fat Lady===<br /> The fat lady was the female detective that wore the civilian clothes. The fat lady hair was &quot; thick yellow braids roped around her head.&quot; The fat lady detective talk in a baby voice. She told Holly &quot;come along, sister.&quot; You're going places.&quot; At this time, Holly did not want the fat lady hands touching her. Holly said: &quot;Get them cotton-pickin hands off of me, you dreary,driveling old bull-dyke.&quot; This made the fat lady angry, so she slapped Holly so damned hard across her face,her head spinned to her over shoulder. As the detectives started to escort Holly down the stairs, she yells &quot;please feed the cat.&quot;<br /> <br /> ===The Cat===<br /> Although Holly tries to act like the cat doesn't really matter to her as a possession, she really does feel that it belongs to her. Holly never really admits this fact until she leaves the cat, then can't find it. &quot;Oh Jesus God. we did belong to each other. He was mine.&quot; (Capote 109) The cat is one of the few things that holly truly feels is hers. Every time the cat appears in the story he seems to be the exact opposite of Holly, or acting in a complete opposite manner as Holly. &quot;Her at losing her nameless, battered &quot;slob&quot; of a cat, far from being a sentimental excess on her part (and the narrator's), is an intensely serious expression of profound fear of relinquishment.&quot; (Nance) Holly shares a feeling of not belonging and acting on a moments notice with the cat. &quot;Like the ugly tom cat she picks up by the river one day, her existence is improvised&quot; (Hassan) Holly finally shows her fear of &quot;perpetual homelessness&quot; (Hassan) when she drops the cat off in Spanish Harlem, and after not being able to find it says: “I’m very scared, Buster. Yes, at last. Because it could go on forever. Not knowing what's yours until you've thrown it away.&quot; (Capote 109)<br /> <br /> ===The Bird Cage===<br /> <br /> The narrator gives Holly the bird cage as a gift. The bird cage cost three-hundred fifty dollars. The bird cage came from Tiffany's. In return Holly gives the narrtor a Saint Christopher's Metal.<br /> <br /> ==Influences==<br /> The somewhat &quot;curious&quot; title &lt;i&gt;Breakfast at Tiffany's&lt;/i&gt; was inspired by a man from out-of-town that Capote heard about, who was &quot;ignorant of New York&quot; (Plimpton 161). As Plimpton asserts, when the man was asked to pick from the best restaurants in New York where to eat breakfast, he replied: &quot;Well, let's have breakfast at Tiffany's,&quot; which was the only place he knew of (161).<br /> <br /> Capote's life had a great deal of influence on the novella. Capote was a teenager when he began writing books, and the narrator also was a writer in his teens. Capote once said, &quot;I always knew that I wanted to be a writer and that I wanted to be rich and famous&quot; (Krebs). The narrator wanted to be a success early in life, and Capote expressed himself in the same sense. He knew &quot;[he] had to be successful, and [he] had to be successful early&quot; (Krebs). Capote turned into an alcholic because of his drinking at a young age. The narrator was also a heavy drinker. Holly and the narrator would go to the bar and drink many times. Capote was also a homosexual; his partner was Jack Dunphy [http://www.axiongraphicx.com/Capote.html]. In the novella, when the narrator is looking through Holly's book collection, he realizes that she only owns books about horses and baseball. The narrator has no interest in either subjuct. Holly mentions her love for horses and explains to the narrator how she does not like baseball at all, but she reads books about it for research purposes. Holly informs the narrator that if a man does not like either subject then she is in trouble any way because he does not like girls. The narrator's life in the novella is almost a mirror image of Capote.<br /> <br /> In real life, Truman Capote's mother's name was Lillie Mae [http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/capote.htm] which is very similar to the real name he chose to give Holly of Lulamae. It is also interesting that the narrator in the novella is an aspiring writer just as Capote had been when he moved to New York and he also is given the same birthday as Capote which is September 30th. <br /> <br /> Some have said that Capote's works were possibly influenced by the works of Edgar Allan Poe but looking closely to Capote's own life experiences, this novella seems to be solely influenced by his own life with a bit of a flare. He was inspired by the women in his life to create Holly Golightly. As Clarke asserts, Capote modeled “his scatty central character...on half a dozen of the charming young beauties he had squired around Manhattan during and after World War II” (64). One woman who likes to take credit for inspiring Holly's character is Doris Lilly, who was like a sister to Capote in his youth. She actually lived in a “brownstone walk-up on East Seventy-eighth Street, exactly [like] the one in the book,” and says “there’s an awful lot of [her] in Holly Golightly” (Lilly 164).<br /> <br /> ==Other Novella's and Novels==<br /> * Summer Crossing<br /> <br /> * Other Voices, Other Rooms<br /> <br /> * The Grass Harp<br /> <br /> * The Muses Are Heard<br /> <br /> * Breakfast at Tiffany's<br /> <br /> * The Thanksgiving Visitor<br /> <br /> * Summer Crossing<br /> ==Time Line==<br /> * 1943 Summer Crossing<br /> * 1945 &quot;Miriam&quot;<br /> * 1948 Other Voices, Other Rooms<br /> * 1949 A Tree of Night and Other Stories<br /> * 1951 The Grass Harp - Novel<br /> * 1952 The Grass Harp - Play<br /> * 1953 Beat the Devil<br /> * 1954 House of Flowers<br /> * 1956 The Muses Are Heard<br /> * 1956 &quot;A Christmas Memory&quot;<br /> * 1957 &quot;The Duke in His Domain&quot;<br /> * 1958 Breakfast at Tiffany's<br /> * 1960 The Innocents<br /> * 1963 The Collected Writings of Truman Capote<br /> * 1966 In Cold Blood<br /> * 1968 The Thanksgiving Visitor<br /> * 1971 The Great Gatsby<br /> * 1975 &quot;Mojave&quot; and &quot;La Cote Basque, 1965&quot;<br /> * 1976 &quot;Unspoiled Monsters&quot; and &quot;Kate McCloud&quot;<br /> * 1980 Music for Chameleons<br /> * 1986 Answered Prayers: The Unfinished Novel<br /> * 2005 Summer Crossing - * Previously unpublished Novel<br /> <br /> ==Additional Resources==<br /> *Capote, Truman. &lt;em&gt;The Complete Stories of Truman Capote.&lt;/em&gt; New York: The Random House Publishing Group, 2004.<br /> *Clarke, Gerald. &lt;i&gt;Capote: A Biography&lt;/i&gt;. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1988.<br /> *Garsen, Helen S. &lt;i&gt;Truman Capote&lt;/i&gt;. New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Company, 1980.<br /> *Goyen, William. &quot;That Old Valentine Maker.&quot; New York Times Book Review. November 1958:5,38.<br /> <br /> ==Works Cited==<br /> *Capote, Truman. ''Breakfast at Tiffany's''. New York: Vintage Books - A division of Random House, 1993.<br /> *Cash, Matthew. ''The Breakfast at Tiffany's Homepage''. 1996. University of Michigan. 14 March 2006. &lt;www.personal.umich.edu/~bcash/criticalanalysis.html&gt;<br /> *Clarke, Gerald. ''Too Brief a Treat: The Letters of Truman Capote''. New York: Random House, 2004.<br /> *Grzesiak, Rich. &quot;My Significant Other, Truman Capote&quot;. [http://axiongrafix.com/capote.html]. 1987.<br /> *Hassan, Ihab H. &quot;Wisconsin Studies in Contemporary Literature&quot;. Vol.1, No.2. Spring, 1960. pp.5-21<br /> *Krebs, Albin. &quot;Truman Capote Is Dead at 59; Novelist of Style and Clarity&quot;. The New York Times on the web. 28 Aug.1984 &lt;www.nytimes.com/books/97/12/28/home/capote-obit.html&gt;<br /> *Levine, Paul. ''Book Review of Breakfeast at Tiffany's/Levine''. The Georgia Review.3/(1959): 350-352<br /> *Lilly, Doris. ''Truman Capote: In Which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintances, and Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career''. Ed. George Plimpton. New York: Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, 1997.<br /> *Nance, Willaim L.&quot;The Worlds of Truman Capote, Stein and Day&quot; 1970.Contemporary Literary Criticism.<br /> *Plimpton, George. ''Truman Capote: In Which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintances,and Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career''. New York: Doubleday Dell Publishing Group. 1997.<br /> *Pugh, Tison. ''Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's''. ''The Explicator''. 6/(2002): 51-53<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> [[Category:Literature]]</div>

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<p>Rscot899: </p> <hr /> <div>==Factual Information==<br /> A [[novel]]/[[novella]] by American writer [[Truman Capote]] published in 1958 by Random House, Inc., New York.<br /> <br /> http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/capote.htm Truman Capote (1924-1984) - original name Truman Streckfus Persons<br /> <br /> <br /> ==Study Guide==<br /> Below are the thirteen major sections of the [[novella]]. Since Capote did not use chapters, these are indicated by the double line break on the page. There might be more sections, or a more logical means of distinguishing them, but these arbitrary divisions will work for our purposes.<br /> <br /> #[[Breakfast at Tiffany's Section 1|Section one (3-14)]]<br /> #[[Breakfast at Tiffany's Section 2|Section two (14-47)]]<br /> #[[Breakfast at Tiffany's Section 3|Section three (47-53)]]<br /> #[[Breakfast at Tiffany's Section 4|Section four (53-55)]]<br /> #[[Breakfast at Tiffany's Section 5|Section five (55-63)]]<br /> #[[Breakfast at Tiffany's Section 6|Section six (63-72)]]<br /> #[[Breakfast at Tiffany's Section 7|Section seven (72-74)]]<br /> #[[Breakfast at Tiffany's Section 8|Section eight (74-85)]]<br /> #[[Breakfast at Tiffany's Section 9|Section nine (85-93)]]<br /> #[[Breakfast at Tiffany's Section 10|Section ten (93-97)]]<br /> #[[Breakfast at Tiffany's Section 11|Section eleven (97-104)]]<br /> #[[Breakfast at Tiffany's Section 12|Section twelve (104-109)]]<br /> #[[Breakfast at Tiffany's Section 13|Section thirteen (109-111)]]<br /> <br /> ==Characters==<br /> ===Paul/Narrator===<br /> An aspiring writer who lives above Holly in his New York apartment. He is affectionately referred to as &quot;Fred&quot; by Holly until her brother dies. He enjoys drinking bourbon and reading Simenon. He becomes friends with Holly and Joe Bell and he later falls in love with Holly. He seems to be a passive man, and is suspected of being homosexual due to the lack of sexual nature of his and Holly's relationship. <br /> <br /> ===Holly Golightly===<br /> True name is Lulamae Barnes. At age 14 she married Doc Golightly near Tulip, Texas. Her parents both passed away from TB, and she was sent to stay with some ‘mean people’ approximately 100 miles east of Tulip. She and her brother, Fred, ran away and would steal in order to eat. After being caught stealing by one of Doc’s daughters, he fell in love with her and asked her to marry him. Though she ran away from him at age 14, she feels she owes a lot to Doc because he gave her confidence in herself. Discovered in California by O.J. Berman, she was given French lessons to rid her of her country accent, and modeled after Margaret Sullavan. Later she posed as niece to Sally Tomato in exchange for money to deliver ‘weather reports’ from Sing Sing to his lawyer.<br /> <br /> Just shy of being 19 at the beginning of the story, Holly is described physically as ageless, having short, boy styled hair with a hodgepodge of colors including white blonde and yellow streaks(self colored), and being thin but a clean and healthy look about her. Her cheeks are pink and she has very large mouth and warm, blue, green, and brown eyes, which she hides behind large, prescription sunglasses at all hours. Her nose is turned up at the end, like a pixie. She is always well groomed, with a tendency to dress in good taste, but plainly, in grays and blues which seems to make her shine even more.<br /> <br /> Holly believes strongly in being free to roam where ever her whim should take her. Although she resides in apartment 2 of the brownstone, she seems to not have a home. Her inability to keep up with her apartment key, her nameless cat, and the sparse furnishings in her apartment illustrate well her lack of commitment to one place or thing. Even her mail box card is non-committing : Miss Holiday Golightly, Traveling. Although she seems so free spirited, later in the novella we find that she desperately does want to find a place to call her own; a place that makes her feel secure as Tiffany’s does.<br /> <br /> Holly smokes Picayunes, a type of cigarette; which irony is found when one realizes in Spanish it means “something of very little value, a trifle.” On occasion she also confessed to smoking marijuana, and seems to be a drinker. She loyally reads tabloids, travel folders, and astrological charts, as well as letters from her brother overseas. She plays the guitar very well (taught to her by Doc) and sings a little. Although her profession is never named, she makes it part of her job to study horses and baseball, and trained herself to like men over 40 who give her considerable amounts of money to visit the powder room. Holly considers herself bisexual. <br /> <br /> She has no qualms about lying when it amuses or benefits her. She seems to have loyalties to no one except for her brother, Fred, with whom she fantasizes about having a horse farm near the sea in Mexico. Being rich and famous is in the top of her priorities. The narrator describes her as a lop sided romantic, as well as a crude exhibitionist, a time waster, and an utter fake. <br /> <br /> Holly is a spunky 19 year old woman who goes her own way and does her own thing. She is a bit of a vagabond. She only stays in one place for so long. If something starts to go awry, she will pack up her stuff and move on to another place. She lives in apartment #2 of a brownstone apartment complex in New York City. Her apartment reflects her personality, for it always has the look of being just moved in to, and the look of just about to be moved out of.<br /> <br /> ===Joe Bell===<br /> Owner of a quiet bar on Lexington Avenue, referred to as Joe Bell's. Physically described to be small, with fine coarse white hair, a sloping bony face better suited to a tall person, and a complexion which always appears sunburnt. He has a froggy voice. Suspected to be homosexual. Devoted to and loves Holly; took numerous phone messages for her when she was in New York, and through out the years during her absence has constantly looked for her in the streets. He doesn't have an easy nature, self described due to being a bachelor and having a sour stomach, which he regularly self medicates with Tums. He is very difficult to talk to unless you are interested in Holly, ice hockey, Weimaraner dogs, Our Gal Sunday (Soap serial on for 15 years), and Gilbert or Sullivan. Has a froggy voice. He's talented at flower arranging, and keeps fresh flowers in his bar.<br /> <br /> ===I. Y. Yunioshi===<br /> Mistakenly said to be from Japan by Bell; but truly from California. He is a photographer featured in a magazine called Winchell, and lived in the studio apartment, top floor of brownstone, during Holly’s time living there. <br /> <br /> ===Negro man from Africa===<br /> Tall, delicate, man, who wore a calico skirt. He is a talented wood sculptor from the S Tribe, in Tococul, East Anglia. He was photographed by Yunioshi on Christmas Day in 1956, depicting him with a &quot;shy, yet vain smile, displaying in his hands an odd wood sculpture,&quot; of the head of Holly Golightly (p6). Shared a mat with Holly Golightly in Spring of that same year.<br /> <br /> ===Madame Sapphia Spanella===<br /> Tenant of brownstone. Described as a husky, coloratura (a singer, usually a soprano, who specializes in music characterized by trills and runs) who goes roller-skating every afternoon in Central Park. She began a petition in brownstone to evict Holly for being “morally objectionable and the perpetrator of all night gatherings that endanger the safety and sanity of her neighbors (p. 64).”<br /> <br /> ===Sid Arbuck===<br /> Escorted Holly home the first evening Fred sees her. He picked up the check for five of her friends, whom he did not know, and expected to stay the evening with her. Apparently he did not succeed due to giving her only twenty cents to go to the powder-room. <br /> <br /> ===Fred===<br /> Holly’s favorite of four brothers. He was the only one who would let her hug him when it was cold as children. Described to be 6’2” and ‘slow’ or ‘stupid’. Was in the 8th grade for three years, then was drafted into the army where he died. <br /> <br /> ===Sally Tomato===<br /> Looks like a monk with gold teeth to Holly. He speaks very little English. While in Sing Sing prison, he was visited every Thursday by Golightly, and gives her a “weather report”. Suspected to be Black hand Mafia. At one time he would hang out at Joe Bell’s often, but didn’t socialize with anyone.<br /> <br /> ===O.J. Berman===<br /> An agent who met Holly at Santa Anita, CA when she was 15. Smokes cigars, wears Knize cologne. Wears elevated heals, appears to be a midget, freckled, large head, bald, pointed elven ears, Pekingese eyes which are bulged and unpitying. Hair sprouts from his ears and nose, and has hairy hands. He has a jerky metallic rhythm to his speech. Considers himself sensitive, and loves Holly. <br /> <br /> ===Benny Polan===<br /> Asked Holly to marry him; he spent thousands of dollars sending her to psychiatrists. <br /> <br /> ===Cecil B. DeMille &amp; Gary Cooper===<br /> Actors starring in The Story of Dr Wassell.<br /> <br /> ===Rutherford (Rusty) Trawler===<br /> Middle aged, baby faced, fat and appeared to be a spoiled child. Lost both parents in 1908 at age 5, his father a victim of anarchist and his mother died of shock. This made him instantly a millionaire and celebrity. His godfather arrested for sodomy due to him, and has divorced 3 times. He offered to marry Unity Mitford if Hitler didn’t, thus was referred to as a Nazi by many. Attended rallies in Yorkville. Acts as though he should be in diapers, Holly said he should be wearing a skirt. Talks in a whiney voice. Thinks girls are literally dolls. And although believed to be homosexual, he marries Mag Wildwood. <br /> <br /> ===Mag Wildwood (Margaret Thatcher Fitzhue Wildwood)===<br /> Her home town is Wildwood, Arkansas. Models for Yunioshi for the Bazaar. Described to be extremely thin, flat chested, and over 6 feet tall, with a stutter that she over exaggerates. She lives at the Winslow. All men in her family were soldiers, and there is a statue of her father in Wildwood. She is very proud of her country, and considers herself a warmhearted person. She knits. Temporarily roomed with Holly and was engaged to Jose. <br /> <br /> ===Jose Ybarra-Jaegar=== <br /> A Brazilian with a German mother. He aims to be the president of Brazil. Has a strong latin accent, originally Wildwood’s lover and became Holly’s. He is described to be intelligent, presentable, and very serious about his work, which is related to the government. He is in Washington 3 days a week. His priorities are his name and work, and broke his engagement with Holly due to her publicity with Sally Tomato.<br /> <br /> ===Mildred Grossman=== <br /> A girl who went to school with the narrator. Described as a top heavy realist with moist hair greasy glasses covering flat eyes. She dissected frogs and went to picket lines, only examined stars to gauge their chemical tonnage. Compared to Holly by the narrator to be a Siamese twin; they would never change because they’d been given their character too soon. (p.58)<br /> <br /> ===Doc Golightly===<br /> Farmer, horse doctor, and husband of Holly/Lulamae, from Tulip, Texas. He is described to be very provocative, early fifties w/ a hard weathered face, and gray forlorn eyes. He appeared in New York outside the brownstone wearing an old sweat-stained gray hat, a pale blue, cheap summer suit, loose on his lanky frame. He wore brand new brown shoes. He likes to whistle, and has a very countrified drawl. Smells of tobacco and sweat, and keeps a toothpick in his mouth to chew on. He is very forward when speaking with the narrator. He came via Greyhound to see Holly/Lulamae. His first wife passed away on July 4th 1936, and married Holly/Lulamae December 38 when she was just shy of age 14.<br /> <br /> ===Nellie=== <br /> Doc’s oldest daughter, discovered Fred and Lulamae stealing milk and turkey eggs.<br /> <br /> ==Major Themes==<br /> ===Delight in the Unorthodox===<br /> Plimpton writes that the theme in ''Breakfast at Tiffany’s'' is that there are special, strange gifted people in the world and they have to be treated with understanding (175). When something is unorthodox it breaks with convention or tradition. All of the characters in the novella ''Breakfast at Tiffany's'' took delight in unique unorthodox ways. Homosexuality was considered to be unorthodox in the fifties and some people even consider it to be unorthodox today.<br /> <br /> Holly Golightly was unorthodox by leaving her husband and by embracing homosexuality like she did. Tison Pugh writes, &quot;...we can see that Holly's friendships with gay men are one sign of her progressive sexual politics&quot; (2). Holly believed in things that were unconventional and unorthodox. Paul Levine writes that,&quot;...Holly too is a hard-headed romantic, a [http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=pragmatic pragmatic] [http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=idealist idealist]&quot; (351). Holly definitely took delight in her unorthodox ways. Not only did Holly Golightly take delight in her unorthodox ways, but the narrator also took delight in his unorthodox ways.<br /> <br /> The narrator was more content with just being himself than he was with fitting the mold. Holly Golightly says that all straight men either like baseball or horses, and in her apartment there are books about horses and baseball. The narrator goes over to the book shelf and pretends to be interested when he says, &quot;Pretending an interest in horseflesh and How to Tell It gave me sufficiently private opportunity for sizing Holly's friends&quot; (Capote 35). If the narrator had liked baseball he would have picked up a book on baseball instead of pretending he liked horses. In other words the narrator is gay, and he is not really concerned with other's thoughts. <br /> <br /> Joe Bell is also a different type of character. He owns a bar, pops tums like candy, and takes care of flowers. Joe Bell's hobbies are hockey players, [http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art4814.asp weimaraner dogs], and [http://math.boisestate.edu/GaS/ Gilbert and Sullivan] (Capote 4). The narrator even goes on to say that Joe Bell is related to either Gilbert or Sullivan. &quot;Since Sullivan is rumored to be have been a homosexual...the passage slyly hints that the bartender is part of Sullivan's family, a fellow gay man to his beloved composer&quot; (Tison 2). Joe Bell also &quot;arranges flowers with matronly care&quot; (Capote 5). In today's society a masculine straight man does not arrange flowers with matronly care. All three of the main characters took delight in their unorthodox ways.<br /> <br /> ===Quest for Home/Belonging===<br /> <br /> Holly Golightly is a pure example of someone that is untameable. It's no wonder how she got that way. Doc Golightly, her husband, says, &quot;Story was: their mother died of TB ([http://www.cdc.gov/nchstp/tb/faqs/qa.htm Tuberculosis]), and their papa done the same - and all the churren, a whole raft of 'em, they been sent off to live with different mean people&quot; (Capote 68). From that line it is obvious that Holly Golightly never really had a home. She appears to spend the rest of her time trying to find one.<br /> <br /> One home that Holly has is at Tiffany's. Holly says, &quot;It calms me down right away, the quietness and proud look of it; nothing bad could happen to you there, not with those kind of men in their nice suits, and that lovely smell of silver and alligator wallets. If I could find a real life place that made me feel like Tiffany's, then I'd buy some furniture and give the cat a name&quot; (Capote 40). Matthew Cash states that this scene shows Holly's innocence and search for a home (3).<br /> <br /> Holly spends much of her time trying to belong to something or someone while at the same time trying not to. Perhaps she had abandonment issues. &quot;On the first night that Holly came to visit the narrator in his appartment she ends up sleeping beside him, showing that Holly needs someone who is comforting instead of lusting toward her&quot; (Cash 4). Perhaps Holly just needed to feel a love that didn't require anything back of her. Holly was human and she desired love, but at the same time she retreated when the narrator asked her why she was crying. Holly jumps up and heads for the window while hollering, &quot;I hate snoops&quot; (Capote 27). Holly had a desire for a home and a place to belong, but she appeared to be very leary of it all.<br /> <br /> ===Never Love a Wild Thing===<br /> <br /> Holly Golightly considered herself to be wild. She gives Joe Bell this speach and she says, &quot;Never love a wild thing, Mr. Bell...That was Doc's mistake. He was always lugging home wild things. A hawk with a hurt wing. One time it was a full-grown bobcat with a broken leg. But you can't give your heart to a wild thing: the more you do, the stronger they get. Until they're strong enough to run into the woods. Or fly into a tree. then a taller tree. Then the sky. That's how you'll end up, Mr. Bell. If you let yourself love a wild thing. You'll end up looking at the sky&quot; (Capote 74).<br /> <br /> Holly goes on to say, &quot;Good luck: and believe me, dearest Doc - it's better to look at the sky than live there. Such an empty place; so vague. Just a country where the thunder goes and things disappear&quot; (Capote 74). In one sentence she is telling Joe Bell not to love a wild thing and in the next she is admitting how unhappy she is. In the beginning of the story Joe Bell admits his love for Holly when he says, &quot;Sure I loved her. But it wasn't that I wanted to touch her&quot; (Capote 9). Maybe Holly knew about Joe Bell's love and was trying to warn him not to love her. While Holly admitted that she was wild she also admitted that she was unhappy.<br /> <br /> ===Joy/Difficulty of Traveling===<br /> <br /> Holly Golightly is a traveler who is searching for somewhere to call home. She even goes so far as to say:&quot;...home is where you feel at home. I'm still looking,&quot; she says (Capote 102). Everything she does throughout the book is based on that very way she looks at life (Cash). &quot;I'll never get used to anything. Anybody that does, they might as well be dead&quot; (Capote 19). <br /> <br /> Holly only seems to find happiness for a short time and it is quickly followed by something that drives her away. She has bad memories of almost every step of the way. From her marriage to Doc in Texas to her many male callers in New York, there is always something that drives at her. <br /> <br /> Holly's age, inexperience, and lack of direction may contribute to her inability to be happy. Her age is revealed by the narrarator:&quot;I thought her anywhere between sixteen and thirty; as it turned out, she was shy two months of her nineteenth birthday.&quot;(Capote 12-13). Her inexperience and young age has her unsure what she really wants out of her life. Holly would finally come to realization after losing her no-name cat. And even at the end of the novel, she is still in search of home.<br /> <br /> ==Major Symbols==<br /> ===Tiffany &amp; Co. ===<br /> <br /> Tiffany's is a jewelry store Holly feels is the best place for her to calm down and feel at home. She explains it as the cure for her &quot;mean reds&quot; to the narrarator (Cash):&quot;What I've found does the most good is just to get into a taxi and go to Tiffany's,&quot; Holly says (Capote 40).<br /> <br /> Tiffany's also symbolizes what Holly is searching for: a place she feels she belongs. A place she feels no harm can be done to her and she feels safe around men in particular.&quot;It calms me down right away, the quietness and the proud look of it; nothing very bad could happen to you there, not with those kind men in their nice suits, and that lovely smell of silver and alligator wallets&quot; (Capote 40).<br /> <br /> ===The &quot;Mean Reds&quot;===<br /> <br /> The &quot;mean reds&quot; was a reoccuring problem Holly has. The narrarator first associated the &quot;mean reds&quot; with the blues (Cash). Holly is quick to denounce that theory. &quot;No, the blues are because you're getting fat or maybe it's been raining too long. You're sad, that's all. But the mean reds are horrible. You're afraid and you sweat like hell, but you don't know what you're afraid of. Except something bad is going to happen, only you don't know what it is&quot;(Capote 40). The narrarator makes another attempt to give an explanation by calling it angst, claiming everyone feels that same way (Cash). Holly takes the suggestion of Rusty Trawler and smokes marijuana and took an aspirin.<br /> <br /> ===The Fat Lady===<br /> The fat lady was the female detective that wore the civilian clothes. The fat lady hair was &quot; thick yellow braids roped around her head.&quot; The fat lady detective talk in a baby voice. She told Holly &quot;come along, sister.&quot; You're going places.&quot; At this time, Holly did not want the fat lady hands touching her. Holly said: &quot;Get them cotton-pickin hands off of me, you dreary,driveling old bull-dyke.&quot; This made the fat lady angry, so she slapped Holly so damned hard across her face,her head spinned to her over shoulder. As the detectives started to escort Holly down the stairs, she yells &quot;please feed the cat.&quot;<br /> <br /> ===The Cat===<br /> Although Holly tries to act like the cat doesn't really matter to her as a possession, she really does feel that it belongs to her. Holly never really admits this fact until she leaves the cat, then can't find it. &quot;Oh Jesus God. we did belong to each other. He was mine.&quot; (Capote 109) The cat is one of the few things that holly truly feels is hers. Every time the cat appears in the story he seems to be the exact opposite of Holly, or acting in a complete opposite manner as Holly. &quot;Her at losing her nameless, battered &quot;slob&quot; of a cat, far from being a sentimental excess on her part (and the narrator's), is an intensely serious expression of profound fear of relinquishment.&quot; (Nance) Holly shares a feeling of not belonging and acting on a moments notice with the cat. &quot;Like the ugly tom cat she picks up by the river one day, her existence is improvised&quot; (Hassan) Holly finally shows her fear of &quot;perpetual homelessness&quot; (Hassan) when she drops the cat off in Spanish Harlem, and after not being able to find it says: “I’m very scared, Buster. Yes, at last. Because it could go on forever. Not knowing what's yours until you've thrown it away.&quot; (Capote 109)<br /> <br /> ===The Bird Cage===<br /> <br /> The narrator gives Holly the bird cage as a gift. The bird cage cost three-hundred fifty dollars. The bird cage came from Tiffany's. In return Holly gives the narrtor a Saint Christopher's Metal.<br /> <br /> ==Influences==<br /> The somewhat &quot;curious&quot; title &lt;i&gt;Breakfast at Tiffany's&lt;/i&gt; was inspired by a man from out-of-town that Capote heard about, who was &quot;ignorant of New York&quot; (Plimpton 161). As Plimpton asserts, when the man was asked to pick from the best restaurants in New York to eat breakfast, he replied: &quot;Well, let's have breakfast at Tiffany's,&quot; which was the only place he knew of (161).<br /> <br /> Capote's life had a great deal of influence on the novella. Capote was a teenager when he began writing books, and the narrator also was a writer in his teens. Capote once said, &quot;I always knew that I wanted to be a writer and that I wanted to be rich and famous&quot; (Krebs). The narrator wanted to be a success early in life, and Capote expressed himself in the same sense. He knew &quot;[he] had to be successful, and [he] had to be successful early&quot; (Krebs). Capote turned into an alcholic because of his drinking at a young age. The narrator was also a heavy drinker. Holly and the narrator would go to the bar and drink many times. Capote was also a homosexual; his partner was Jack Dunphy [http://www.axiongraphicx.com/Capote.html]. In the novella, when the narrator is looking through Holly's book collection, he realizes that she only owns books about horses and baseball. The narrator has no interest in either subjuct. Holly mentions her love for horses and explains to the narrator how she does not like baseball at all, but she reads books about it for research purposes. Holly informs the narrator that if a man does not like either subject then she is in trouble any way because he does not like girls. The narrator's life in the novella is almost a mirror image of Capote.<br /> <br /> In real life, Truman Capote's mother's name was Lillie Mae [http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/capote.htm] which is very similar to the real name he chose to give Holly of Lulamae. It is also interesting that the narrator in the novella is an aspiring writer just as Capote had been when he moved to New York and he also is given the same birthday as Capote which is September 30th. <br /> <br /> Some have said that Capote's works were possibly influenced by the works of Edgar Allan Poe but looking closely to Capote's own life experiences, this novella seems to be solely influenced by his own life with a bit of a flare. He was inspired by the women in his life to create Holly Golightly. As Clarke asserts, Capote modeled “his scatty central character...on half a dozen of the charming young beauties he had squired around Manhattan during and after World War II” (64). One woman who likes to take credit for inspiring Holly's character is Doris Lilly, who was like a sister to Capote in his youth. She actually lived in a “brownstone walk-up on East Seventy-eighth Street, exactly [like] the one in the book,” and says “there’s an awful lot of [her] in Holly Golightly” (Lilly 164).<br /> <br /> ==Other Novella's and Novels==<br /> * Summer Crossing<br /> <br /> * Other Voices, Other Rooms<br /> <br /> * The Grass Harp<br /> <br /> * The Muses Are Heard<br /> <br /> * Breakfast at Tiffany's<br /> <br /> * The Thanksgiving Visitor<br /> <br /> * Summer Crossing<br /> ==Time Line==<br /> * 1943 Summer Crossing<br /> * 1945 &quot;Miriam&quot;<br /> * 1948 Other Voices, Other Rooms<br /> * 1949 A Tree of Night and Other Stories<br /> * 1951 The Grass Harp - Novel<br /> * 1952 The Grass Harp - Play<br /> * 1953 Beat the Devil<br /> * 1954 House of Flowers<br /> * 1956 The Muses Are Heard<br /> * 1956 &quot;A Christmas Memory&quot;<br /> * 1957 &quot;The Duke in His Domain&quot;<br /> * 1958 Breakfast at Tiffany's<br /> * 1960 The Innocents<br /> * 1963 The Collected Writings of Truman Capote<br /> * 1966 In Cold Blood<br /> * 1968 The Thanksgiving Visitor<br /> * 1971 The Great Gatsby<br /> * 1975 &quot;Mojave&quot; and &quot;La Cote Basque, 1965&quot;<br /> * 1976 &quot;Unspoiled Monsters&quot; and &quot;Kate McCloud&quot;<br /> * 1980 Music for Chameleons<br /> * 1986 Answered Prayers: The Unfinished Novel<br /> * 2005 Summer Crossing - * Previously unpublished Novel<br /> <br /> ==Additional Resources==<br /> *Capote, Truman. &lt;em&gt;The Complete Stories of Truman Capote.&lt;/em&gt; New York: The Random House Publishing Group, 2004.<br /> <br /> *Clarke, Gerald. &lt;i&gt;Capote: A Biography&lt;/i&gt;. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1988.<br /> <br /> *Garsen, Helen S. &lt;i&gt;Truman Capote&lt;/i&gt;. New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Company, 1980.<br /> <br /> *Goyen, William. &quot;That Old Valentine Maker.&quot; New York Times Book Review. November 1958:5,38.<br /> <br /> ==Works Cited==<br /> *Capote, Truman. ''Breakfast at Tiffany's''. New York: Vintage Books - A division of Random House, 1993.<br /> <br /> *Cash, Matthew. ''The Breakfast at Tiffany's Homepage''. 1996. University of Michigan. 14 March 2006. &lt;www.personal.umich.edu/~bcash/criticalanalysis.html&gt;<br /> *Hassan, Ihab H. &quot;Wisconsin Studies in Contemporary Literature&quot;. Vol.1, No.2. Spring, 1960. pp.5-21<br /> <br /> *Krebs, Albin. &quot;Truman Capote Is Dead at 59; Novelist of Style and Clarity&quot;. The New York Times on the web. 28 Aug.1984 &lt;www.nytimes.com/books/97/12/28/home/capote-obit.html&gt;<br /> <br /> *Levine, Paul. ''Book Review of Breakfeast at Tiffany's/Levine''. The Georgia Review.3/(1959): 350-352<br /> *Lilly, Doris. ''Truman Capote: In Which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintances, and Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career''. Ed. George Plimpton. New York: Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, 1997.<br /> *Nance, Willaim L.&quot;The Worlds of Truman Capote, Stein and Day&quot; 1970.Contemporary Literary Criticism.<br /> <br /> *Plimpton, George. ''Truman Capote: In Which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintances,and Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career''. New York: Doubleday Dell Publishing Group. 1997.<br /> <br /> *Pugh, Tison. ''Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's''. ''The Explicator''. 6/(2002): 51-53<br /> <br /> *Grzesiak, Rich. &quot;My Significant Other, Truman Capote&quot;. [http://axiongrafix.com/capote.html]. 1987.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> [[Category:Literature]]</div>

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<p>Rscot899: </p> <hr /> <div>== Summary ==<br /> Section eight begins with the title to a shocking newspaper clipping. It reads, &quot;Trawler marries fourth&quot; (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 buys a paper and finishes the headline. He soon realizes Rusty has married Mag, not Holly! <br /> <br /> 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 &quot;her sickness is only grief&quot; (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 &quot;Fred.&quot;<br /> <br /> Jose moves in with Holly, replacing Mag as her roommate, and Holly stops caring so much about her appearance. &quot;Her hair darkened, she put on weight. She became rather careless about her clothes...&quot; (80). However, the narrator describes her as seeming &quot;more content, altogether happier than [he'd] ever seen her&quot; (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.<br /> <br /> 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. She tells the narrator &quot;If I were free to, I would not pick Jose&quot; (82). The narrator, after hearing so much about Jose begins to dislike him. He even stops saying Jose's name while he is speaking to Holly and simply refers to Jose as &quot;Him.&quot; <br /> <br /> One day, on an outing, Holly observes ships sailing by and exclaims, &quot;one day, one of those ships will bring me back, me and my nine Brazilian brats&quot; (84). The narrator, tired of hearing about her &quot;brats&quot; and Jose, interrupts by saying &quot;Do shut up&quot; (84). He clearly feels left out, &quot;like a tug boat in dry-dock while she, glittery voyager of secure destination, [steams] down the harbor with whistles whistling and confetti in the air&quot; (84).<br /> <br /> == Notes ==<br /> *'''&quot;The now defunct newspaper, ''PM''&quot;''' (75) - A left-wing daily newspaper in New York City, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PM_%28newspaper%29 ''PM''] stood for &quot;Picture Magazine,&quot; 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''.<br /> <br /> *'''&quot;A Parke-Bernet Auction&quot;''' (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.<br /> <br /> *'''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 &quot;yellow journalism&quot;] and waas a leader of the liberal wing of the Democratic party from 1896 to 1935.<br /> <br /> *'''Modern Library''' (80) - A division of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_House Randolph House Publishers]. Founded in 1917, it identified itself as &quot;The Modern Library of the World's Best Books.&quot;<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''Waring mixer''' (80) - [http://www.waringproducts.com Waring] is a leading manufacturer of small appliances for the home, food service, and laboratory industries.<br /> <br /> *'''Hausfrau''' (80) - Translated from German to English, &quot;housewife.&quot;<br /> <br /> *'''Outré''' (81) - Highly unconventional; eccentric or bizarre.<br /> <br /> *'''Terrapin''' (81) - An [http://images.google.com/images?q=terrapin&amp;hl=en amphibious reptile turtle] that can live in the water and on land.<br /> <br /> *'''&quot;Nero-ish novelties&quot;''' (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].<br /> <br /> *'''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 &quot;dry fruit,&quot; is an edible fruit borne by some species of the genus [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diospyros ''Diospyros''].<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''Joss sticks''' (84) - Slender sticks of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incense incense] burned before a Chinese image, idol, or shrine.<br /> <br /> == Commentary ==<br /> Capote seems to have known someone in his life that he loved as much as the narrator loves Holly.&quot; 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.&quot; [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.&quot; &lt;i&gt;BaT&lt;/i&gt; &quot;inspired women to pack their bags and seek their fortunes in New York and all over the country.&quot; [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 &quot;learning&quot; 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 &quot;party girl-about-town and exuberant phony&quot; [http://www.jp41.dial.pipex.com/R735.HTML (Prior)] that he knew becomes a mostly content stay-at-home-wife. <br /> <br /> 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 &quot;non-rat&quot; 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 &quot;rats&quot;, but she forces herself to see an allure in them. &quot;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.&quot; [http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bcash/criticalanalysis.html (Cash)]<br /> <br /> 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 &quot;plan&quot; 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, &quot;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&quot; (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. &quot;...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&quot; (Pugh). Pugh suggests that Holly's friendship with gay men are one sign of her progressive sexual politics. Holly states, &quot;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&quot; (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. <br /> <br /> Regardless of her true intentions, this section ends with the narrator giving a wonderful metaphor. &quot;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&quot;(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.<br /> <br /> == Study Questions ==<br /> #Who is it that the narrator believes Holly has married?<br /> #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 &quot;were under the wheels of the train&quot;?<br /> #Who turns out to be the woman that has gotten married?<br /> #What is Dr. Goldman's explanation for Holly's fit?<br /> #What is the real reason for Holly's fit?<br /> #Whose name replaces Mag Wildwood's on Holly's mailbox?<br /> #Holly mentions something of importance to the narrator, while she is talking about her feelings for Jose. What is it?<br /> #Holly says that she would rather have cancer than a what?<br /> #In your opinion, how does Capote relate to the narrator in real life as far as his relationship with Holly?<br /> #What name does Holly give the narrator after her brother dies?<br /> #What kind of boat does the narrator relate himself to? What kind of boat does he picture Holly as?<br /> #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?<br /> <br /> == External Resources ==<br /> *[http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/capote.htm Books and Writers: Truman Capote]. 2003<br /> *[http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/capote_t.html American Masters: Truman Capote]<br /> <br /> == Works Cited ==<br /> *Cash, Matthew. [http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bcash/criticalanalysis.html A Travelin' Through the Pastures of the Sky: A Critical Analysis of &lt;i&gt;Breakfast at Tiffany's&lt;/i&gt;]. 1996.<br /> *Kimbofo. [http://kimbofo.typepad.com/readingmatters/2006/01/breakfast_at_ti.html &lt;i&gt;Breakfast at Tiffany's&lt;/i&gt; Reviews]. &quot;Reading Matters.&quot; 17 January 2006. 18 March 2006.<br /> *Prior, Lily. [http://www.jp41.dial.pipex.com/R735.html &lt;i&gt;Breakfast at Tiffany's&lt;/i&gt; Review]. 18 March 2006.<br /> *Pugh, Tison. &quot;Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's.&quot; The Explicator 6.1 (Fall 2002): 51-53.<br /> ----<br /> [[Breakfast at Tiffany's]]<br /> ----<br /> ----</div>

Rscot899 https://litwiki.org/index.php?title=Breakfast_at_Tiffany%27s_Section_8&diff=6421 2006-03-23T01:39:48Z

<p>Rscot899: </p> <hr /> <div>== Summary ==<br /> Section eight of Truman Capote's &lt;i&gt;Breakfast at Tiffany's&lt;/i&gt; begins with the title to a shocking newspaper clipping. It reads, &quot;Trawler marries fourth&quot; (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! <br /> <br /> 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 &quot;her sickness is only grief&quot; (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 &quot;Fred.&quot;<br /> <br /> Jose moves in with Holly, replacing Mag as her roommate and Holly stops caring so much about her appearance. &quot;Her hair darkened, she put on weight. She became rather careless about her clothes...&quot; (80). However, the narrator describes her as seeming &quot;more content, altogether happier than I'd ever seen her&quot; (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.<br /> <br /> 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. &quot;If I were free to...,&quot; Holly continues, &quot;I would not pick Jose&quot; (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 &quot;Him.&quot; <br /> <br /> One day, on an outing, Holly observes ships sailing by and exclaims, &quot;one day, one of those ships will bring me back, me and my nine Brazilin brats&quot; (84). The narrator, tired of hearing about her &quot;brats&quot; and Jose, says &quot;Do shut up&quot;(84). He clearly felt left out, &quot;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&quot; (84).<br /> <br /> == Notes ==<br /> *'''&quot;The now defunct newspaper, ''PM''&quot;''' (75) - A left-wing daily newspaper in New York City, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PM_%28newspaper%29 ''PM''] stood for &quot;Picture Magazine,&quot; 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''.<br /> <br /> *'''&quot;A Parke-Bernet Auction&quot;''' (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.<br /> <br /> *'''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 &quot;yellow journalism&quot;] and waas a leader of the liberal wing of the Democratic party from 1896 to 1935.<br /> <br /> *'''Modern Library''' (80) - A division of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_House Randolph House Publishers]. Founded in 1917, it identified itself as &quot;The Modern Library of the World's Best Books.&quot;<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''Waring mixer''' (80) - [http://www.waringproducts.com Waring] is a leading manufacturer of small appliances for the home, food service, and laboratory industries.<br /> <br /> *'''Hausfrau''' (80) - Translated from German to English, &quot;housewife.&quot;<br /> <br /> *'''Outré''' (81) - Highly unconventional; eccentric or bizarre.<br /> <br /> *'''Terrapin''' (81) - An [http://images.google.com/images?q=terrapin&amp;hl=en amphibious reptile turtle] that can live in the water and on land.<br /> <br /> *'''&quot;Nero-ish novelties&quot;''' (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].<br /> <br /> *'''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 &quot;dry fruit,&quot; is an edible fruit borne by some species of the genus [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diospyros ''Diospyros''].<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''Joss sticks''' (84) - Slender sticks of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incense incense] burned before a Chinese image, idol, or shrine.<br /> <br /> == Commentary ==<br /> Capote seems to have known someone in his life that he loved as much as the narrator loves Holly.&quot; 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.&quot; [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.&quot; &lt;i&gt;BaT&lt;/i&gt; &quot;inspired women to pack their bags and seek their fortunes in New York and all over the country.&quot; [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 &quot;learning&quot; 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 &quot;party girl-about-town and exuberant phony&quot; [http://www.jp41.dial.pipex.com/R735.HTML (Prior)] that he knew becomes a mostly content stay-at-home-wife. <br /> <br /> 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 &quot;non-rat&quot; 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 &quot;rats&quot;, but she forces herself to see an allure in them. &quot;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.&quot; [http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bcash/criticalanalysis.html (Cash)]<br /> <br /> 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 &quot;plan&quot; 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, &quot;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&quot; (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. &quot;...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&quot; (Pugh). Pugh suggests that Holly's friendship with gay men are one sign of her progressive sexual politics. Holly states, &quot;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&quot; (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. <br /> <br /> Regardless of her true intentions, this section ends with the narrator giving a wonderful metaphor. &quot;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&quot;(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.<br /> <br /> == Study Questions ==<br /> #Who is it that the narrator believes Holly has married?<br /> #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 &quot;were under the wheels of the train&quot;?<br /> #Who turns out to be the woman that has gotten married?<br /> #What is Dr. Goldman's explanation for Holly's fit?<br /> #What is the real reason for Holly's fit?<br /> #Whose name replaces Mag Wildwood's on Holly's mailbox?<br /> #Holly mentions something of importance to the narrator, while she is talking about her feelings for Jose. What is it?<br /> #Holly says that she would rather have cancer than a what?<br /> #In your opinion, how does Capote relate to the narrator in real life as far as his relationship with Holly?<br /> #What name does Holly give the narrator after her brother dies?<br /> #What kind of boat does the narrator relate himself to? What kind of boat does he picture Holly as?<br /> #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?<br /> <br /> == External Resources ==<br /> *[http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/capote.htm Books and Writers: Truman Capote]. 2003<br /> *[http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/capote_t.html American Masters: Truman Capote]<br /> <br /> == Works Cited ==<br /> *Cash, Matthew. [http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bcash/criticalanalysis.html A Travelin' Through the Pastures of the Sky: A Critical Analysis of &lt;i&gt;Breakfast at Tiffany's&lt;/i&gt;]. 1996.<br /> *Kimbofo. [http://kimbofo.typepad.com/readingmatters/2006/01/breakfast_at_ti.html &lt;i&gt;Breakfast at Tiffany's&lt;/i&gt; Reviews]. &quot;Reading Matters.&quot; 17 January 2006. 18 March 2006.<br /> *Prior, Lily. [http://www.jp41.dial.pipex.com/R735.html &lt;i&gt;Breakfast at Tiffany's&lt;/i&gt; Review]. 18 March 2006.<br /> *Pugh, Tison. &quot;Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's.&quot; The Explicator 6.1 (Fall 2002): 51-53.<br /> ----<br /> [[Breakfast at Tiffany's]]<br /> ----<br /> ----</div>

Rscot899 https://litwiki.org/index.php?title=Breakfast_at_Tiffany%27s_Section_13&diff=6432 2006-03-23T01:22:24Z

<p>Rscot899: </p> <hr /> <div>== Summary ==<br /> [[Image:Section 13.jpg|thumb| Holly and the cat]]<br /> The narrator notices the decreasing mention of Holly in the news and finds himself longing to be with her once again. He reads in the headlines of a newspaper about Sally Tomato's death and how Holly is believed to be in Rio. Holly's &quot;abandoned possessions&quot; are sold, and a man name Quaintance Smith moves into her old apartment. Little is heard of from Holly, until the narrator receives a postcard in the spring. It appears she has met someone new and is looking for somewhere to live. He wishes he had an address in which to write Holly to tell her that he found her cat.<br /> <br /> == Notes ==<br /> *'''Arican Hut''' (111) - A single story [http://www.cvmbs.colostate.edu/mip/leprosy/huts.jpg building] made up of natural materials usually wood, which is used for shelter or a house.<br /> *'''Brazil''' (110) - The largest [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil country] in Eastern South America that was founded by the Portuguese in the 1500. [[Image:Brownstone.jpg|thumb|Brownstone Apartment]]<br /> <br /> *'''Brownstone''' (110) - Refers to old brick apartment where Holly once lived. <br /> <br /> *'''Buenos Aires''' (110) - The largest [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buenos-Aires country] in Argentina. Located in the eastern part of the country on the Rio de la Plata. Was founded by the Spanish in 1536. Buenos Aires became the capital of Argentina in 1862.<br /> <br /> *'''Countersue''' (110) - Means one party to sue a second party who is already suing the first party.<br /> <br /> *'''Flanked''' (110) -Means to be beside someone or something.<br /> <br /> *'''Gangland Victim''' (109) - A person who is exploited by underground, orgainized crime.<br /> <br /> *'''Gossip-Column''' (109) - A [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gossip_column gossip column] is a media feature about celebrities' private serects or rumors that has been spread about them.<br /> <br /> *'''Mille Tendresse''' (110) - A term translated into English means, mille: thousand and tendresse: affection. Which close in the American speaking tongue to say lots of love.<br /> <br /> *'''Rio''' (109) - [http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~sergiok/brasil/rio.html Rio de Janeiro], a state and a city in Southeastern Brazil.<br /> <br /> *'''Sing Sing''' (109) - A [http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious%5Fmurders/famous/sing%5fsing prison] in New York.<br /> <br /> *'''Spanish Harlem''' (110) - Area urbanized by the addition of brownstones and apartment buildings in the 1880's. Predominantly Hispanic, it is also referred to as East Harlem, found in New York City.<br /> <br /> *'''Two bits''' (109) - [http://www.snopes.com/humor/jokes/quarters.asp quarter] Equal to one quarter.<br /> <br /> *'''Quaintance Smith''' (110) - The man that moved into Holly's apartment after she moved out. &quot;...a new tenant acquired the apartment, his name was Quaintance Smith, and he entertained as many gentlemen callers of a noisy nature as Holly ever had...&quot; (Capote 110).<br /> <br /> == Commentary ==<br /> The last section of the novella focuses on the narrator's last regrets concerning Holly. The gossip in the paper dies down and he goes through the months of winter hoping to hear from her. In the time that has passed since she left, a man named Quaintance Smith has moved into her old apartment. He receives far better treatment from Madame Spanella that Holly did. He hosts parties and has the occasional black eye, for which Spanella aids him with &quot;filet mignon&quot; (110). <br /> <br /> The headlines in the paper tell of Sally Tomato's death and the disappearance of Holly (109). This sums up the story by having Holly return to her carefree ways by running away again. The narrator seems more worried about where she is than her running away from the law and Sally Tomato's crooked business. Paul Levine writes,&quot; there is more than a hint that they form a part of a solid literary phalanx of spiritual non-conformists, of yea-saying rebels whose off-center vision, whose unflagging but unorthodox sense of rightness alienates them from society&quot; (352). Holly Golightly was right in her own way; unfortunately, her sense of rightness didn't hold up in society. It's no wonder that she ran away.<br /> <br /> The mention of the Trawlers countersuing for divorce seems to add a humorous turn on the whole affair between Holly, Rusty, and Mag (110). It seems that Mag was only out for money and/or jealousy from the beginning of her affair with Rusty. Holly was not at all affected by their marriage, and proved it by leaving for Rio in search of another life. <br /> <br /> After Holly is gone all of her possessions were sold by the owner of the Brownstone. A man named Quantance Smith moves in. Quaintance Smith is considered to be gay. Capote gives his readers a hint when he writes,&quot;...and he(Quaintance Smith) entertained as many gentlemen callers of a noisy nature as Holly ever had...&quot; (Capote 110). Holly was straight and threw parties for male dates. Why was Quaintance Smith throwing parties for men only if he wasn't dating one of them? Pugh Tison writes,&quot;The name &quot;Quaintance&quot; is an allusion to [http://www.apollonetwork.com/archive/quaintance/ George Quaintance], a painter of the 1940's and 1950's, whose art bordered on soft-core gay pornography&quot; (Tison).<br /> <br /> The novella ends with the narrator's hope that Holly has finally found a home, a venture in which her cat has been successful. He regrets most that he cannot reach Holly to tell her about the cat. He expresses that whether it be an &quot;African hut or whatever,&quot; he hopes Holly &quot;arrived somewhere [she] belonged&quot; (111).<br /> <br /> &quot;The [http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=dichotomy dichotomy] of good and evil exists in each Capote character just as the dichotomy of daylight and nighttime exists in the [http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=aggregate aggregate] of his stories&quot; (Hassan). Everyone of Capote's characters either represents a good presence or a bad presence. Toward the end of the novella, the narrator's love for Holly shows when he spends weeks trying to find her cat. Not too many people would do something for someone else that required so much time and effort.<br /> <br /> Even though the narrator has all these regrets, he never expresses any remorse about never telling Holly how he really feels about her. He is so excited to hear from her, and has all these things he wants to tell her. So the narrator is still thinking about her and still in love with her, but he has no desire to know what would have happened if he would have told her how he feels.<br /> <br /> == Study Questions ==<br /> #What is the name of the new tenant in Holly's old apartment?<br /> #What happened to her belongings?<br /> #What is the one thing he wishes to tell Holly the most?<br /> #Who found Holly's cat?<br /> #How did Sally Tomato die?<br /> #What day did Sally Tomato die?<br /> #What does the narrator promise Holly?<br /> #Where did Sally Tomato die?<br /> #Where did Holly write from?<br /> #What does the narrator hope Holly will find?<br /> #What is the name of Holly's new friend?<br /> #How long did it take the narrator to find the cat?<br /> <br /> == External Resources ==<br /> *Cash, Matthew. [http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bcash/criticalanalysis.html A Travelin' Through the Pastures of the Sky: A Critical Analysis of &lt;i&gt;Breakfast at Tiffany's&lt;/i&gt;]. 1996.<br /> <br /> == Works Cited ==<br /> *Cash, Mathew. [http://www.-personal.umich.edu/~bcash/criticalanalysis.html &lt;i&gt;The Breakfast at Tiffany's&lt;/i&gt; Homepage - A Critical Analysis]. 1996. ''University of Michigan''. 14 March 2006. <br /> *Hassan, Ihab H. &quot;Wisconsin Studies in Contemporary Literature.&quot; Vol.1, No.2. Spring, 1960. pp.5-21<br /> *Levine, Paul. ''Book Review of Breakfast at Tiffany's/Levine.'' ''The Georgia Review''/3 (1959): 350-352<br /> *Pugh, Tison. &quot;Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's.&quot; The Explicator 6.1 (Fall 2002): 51-53.<br /> ----<br /> [[Breakfast at Tiffany's]]<br /> ----<br /> <br /> ----</div>

Rscot899 https://litwiki.org/index.php?title=Breakfast_at_Tiffany%27s_Section_8&diff=6419 2006-03-23T00:53:19Z

<p>Rscot899: </p> <hr /> <div>== Summary ==<br /> Section eight of Truman Capote's &lt;i&gt;Breakfast at Tiffany's&lt;/i&gt; begins with the title to a shocking newspaper clipping. It reads, &quot;Trawler marries fourth&quot; (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! <br /> <br /> 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 &quot;her sickness is only grief&quot; (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 &quot;Fred.&quot;<br /> <br /> Jose moves in with Holly, replacing Mag as her roommate and Holly stops caring so much about her appearance. &quot;Her hair darkened, she put on weight. She became rather careless about her clothes...&quot; (80). However, the narrator describes her as seeming &quot;more content, altogether happier than I'd ever seen her&quot; (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.<br /> <br /> 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. &quot;If I were free to...,&quot; Holly continues, &quot;I would not pick Jose&quot; (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 &quot;Him.&quot; <br /> <br /> One day, on an outing, Holly observes ships sailing by and exclaims, &quot;one day, one of those ships will bring me back, me and my nine Brazilin brats&quot; (84). The narrator, tired of hearing about her &quot;brats&quot; and Jose, says &quot;Do shut up&quot;(84). He clearly felt left out, &quot;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&quot; (84).<br /> <br /> == Notes ==<br /> *'''&quot;The now defunct newspaper, ''PM''&quot;''' (75) - A left-wing daily newspaper in New York City, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PM_%28newspaper%29 ''PM''] stood for &quot;Picture Magazine,&quot; 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''.<br /> <br /> *'''&quot;A Parke-Bernet Auction&quot;''' (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.<br /> <br /> *'''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 &quot;yellow journalism&quot;] and waas a leader of the liberal wing of the Democratic party from 1896 to 1935.<br /> <br /> *'''Modern Library''' (80) - A division of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_House Randolph House Publishers]. Founded in 1917, it identified itself as &quot;The Modern Library of the World's Best Books.&quot;<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''Waring mixer''' (80) - [http://www.waringproducts.com Waring] is a leading manufacturer of small appliances for the home, food service, and laboratory industries.<br /> <br /> *'''Hausfrau''' (80) - Translated from German to English, &quot;housewife.&quot;<br /> <br /> *'''Outré''' (81) - Highly unconventional; eccentric or bizarre.<br /> <br /> *'''Terrapin''' (81) - An [http://images.google.com/images?q=terrapin&amp;hl=en amphibious reptile turtle] that can live in the water and on land.<br /> <br /> *'''&quot;Nero-ish novelties&quot;''' (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].<br /> <br /> *'''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 &quot;dry fruit,&quot; is an edible fruit borne by some species of the genus [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diospyros ''Diospyros''].<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''Joss sticks''' (84) - Slender sticks of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incense incense] burned before a Chinese image, idol, or shrine.<br /> <br /> == Commentary ==<br /> Capote seems to have known someone in his life that he loved as much as the narrator loves Holly.&quot; 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.&quot; [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.&quot; &lt;i&gt;BaT&lt;/i&gt; &quot;inspired women to pack their bags and seek their fortunes in New York and all over the country.&quot; [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 &quot;learning&quot; 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 &quot;party girl-about-town and exuberant phony&quot; [http://www.jp41.dial.pipex.com/R735.HTML (Prior)] that he knew becomes a mostly content stay-at-home-wife. <br /> <br /> <br /> 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 &quot;non-rat&quot; 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 &quot;rats&quot;, but she forces herself to see an allure in them. &quot;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.&quot; [http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bcash/criticalanalysis.html (Cash)]<br /> <br /> 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 &quot;plan&quot; 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, &quot;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&quot; (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. &quot;...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&quot; (Pugh). Pugh suggests that Holly's friendship with gay men are one sign of her progressive sexual politics. Holly states, &quot;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&quot; (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. <br /> <br /> Regardless of her true intentions, this section ends with the narrator giving a wonderful metaphor. &quot;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&quot;(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.<br /> <br /> == Study Questions ==<br /> #Who is it that the narrator believes Holly has married?<br /> #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 &quot;were under the wheels of the train&quot;?<br /> #Who turns out to be the woman that has gotten married?<br /> #What is Dr. Goldman's explanation for Holly's fit?<br /> #What is the real reason for Holly's fit?<br /> #Whose name replaces Mag Wildwood's on Holly's mailbox?<br /> #Holly mentions something of importance to the narrator, while she is talking about her feelings for Jose. What is it?<br /> #Holly says that she would rather have cancer than a what?<br /> #In your opinion, how does Capote relate to the narrator in real life as far as his relationship with Holly?<br /> #What name does Holly give the narrator after her brother dies?<br /> #What kind of boat does the narrator relate himself to? What kind of boat does he picture Holly as?<br /> #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?<br /> <br /> == External Resources ==<br /> *[http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/capote.htm Books and Writers: Truman Capote]. 2003<br /> <br /> *[http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/capote_t.html American Masters: Truman Capote]<br /> <br /> == Works Cited ==<br /> *Cash, Matthew. [http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bcash/criticalanalysis.html A Travelin' Through the Pastures of the Sky: A Critical Analysis of &lt;i&gt;Breakfast at Tiffany's&lt;/i&gt;]. 1996.<br /> <br /> *Kimbofo. [http://kimbofo.typepad.com/readingmatters/2006/01/breakfast_at_ti.html &lt;i&gt;Breakfast at Tiffany's&lt;/i&gt; Reviews]. &quot;Reading Matters.&quot; 17 January 2006. 18 March 2006.<br /> <br /> *Prior, Lily. [http://www.jp41.dial.pipex.com/R735.html &lt;i&gt;Breakfast at Tiffany's&lt;/i&gt; Review]. 18 March 2006.<br /> <br /> *Pugh, Tison. &quot;Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's.&quot; The Explicator 6.1 (Fall 2002): 51-53.<br /> ----<br /> [[Breakfast at Tiffany's]]</div>

Rscot899 https://litwiki.org/index.php?title=Breakfast_at_Tiffany%27s&diff=6411 2006-03-23T00:04:31Z

<p>Rscot899: </p> <hr /> <div>==Factual Information==<br /> A [[novel]]/[[novella]] by American writer [[Truman Capote]] published in 1958 by Random House, Inc., New York.<br /> <br /> http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/capote.htm Truman Capote (1924-1984) - original name Truman Streckfus Persons<br /> <br /> ==Study Guide==<br /> Below are the thirteen major sections of the [[novella]]. Since Capote did not use chapters, these are indicated by the double line break on the page. There might be more sections, or a more logical means of distinguishing them, but these arbitrary divisions will work for our purposes.<br /> <br /> #[[Breakfast at Tiffany's Section 1|Section one (3-14)]]<br /> #[[Breakfast at Tiffany's Section 2|Section two (14-47)]]<br /> #[[Breakfast at Tiffany's Section 3|Section three (47-53)]]<br /> #[[Breakfast at Tiffany's Section 4|Section four (53-55)]]<br /> #[[Breakfast at Tiffany's Section 5|Section five (55-63)]]<br /> #[[Breakfast at Tiffany's Section 6|Section six (63-72)]]<br /> #[[Breakfast at Tiffany's Section 7|Section seven (72-74)]]<br /> #[[Breakfast at Tiffany's Section 8|Section eight (74-85)]]<br /> #[[Breakfast at Tiffany's Section 9|Section nine (85-93)]]<br /> #[[Breakfast at Tiffany's Section 10|Section ten (93-97)]]<br /> #[[Breakfast at Tiffany's Section 11|Section eleven (97-104)]]<br /> #[[Breakfast at Tiffany's Section 12|Section twelve (104-109)]]<br /> #[[Breakfast at Tiffany's Section 13|Section thirteen (109-111)]]<br /> <br /> ==Characters==<br /> ===Paul/Narrator===<br /> An aspiring writer who lives above Holly in his New York apartment. He becomes friends with Holly and Joe Bell and he later falls in love with Holly. He seems to be a passive man.<br /> <br /> ===Holly Golightly===<br /> Holly is a spunky 19 year old woman who goes her own way and does her own thing. She is a bit of a vagabond. She only stays in one place for so long. If something starts to go awry, she will pack up her stuff and move on to another place. She lives in apartment #2 of a brownstone apartment complex in New York City. Her apartment reflects her personality, for it always has the look of being just moved in to, and the look of just about to be moved out of.<br /> <br /> ===Joe Bell===<br /> Joe Bell runs a bar around the corner on Lexington Avenue. He is friends with Holly and the narrator. He took phone messages for them both, and near the end he hired a limo to drive Holly to the airport.<br /> <br /> ==Major Themes==<br /> ===Delight in the Unorthodox===<br /> Plimpton writes that the theme in ''Breakfast at Tiffany’s'' is that there are special, strange gifted people in the world and they have to be treated with understanding (175). When something is unorthodox it breaks with convention or tradition. All of the characters in the novella ''Breakfast at Tiffany's'' took delight in unique unorthodox ways. Homosexuality was considered to be unorthodox in the fifties and some people even consider it to be unorthodox today.<br /> <br /> Holly Golightly was unorthodox by leaving her husband and by embracing homosexuality like she did. Tison Pugh writes, &quot;...we can see that Holly's friendships with gay men are one sign of her progressive sexual politics&quot; (2). Holly believed in things that were unconventional and unorthodox. Paul Levine writes that,&quot;...Holly too is a hard-headed romantic, a [http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=pragmatic pragmatic] [http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=idealist idealist]&quot; (351). Holly definitely took delight in her unorthodox ways. Not only did Holly Golightly take delight in her unorthodox ways, but the narrator also took delight in his unorthodox ways.<br /> <br /> The narrator was more content with just being himself than he was with fitting the mold. Holly Golightly says that all straight men either like baseball or horses, and in her apartment there are books about horses and baseball. The narrator goes over to the book shelf and pretends to be interested when he says, &quot;Pretending an interest in horseflesh and How to Tell It gave me sufficiently private opportunity for sizing Holly's friends&quot; (Capote 35). If the narrator had liked baseball he would have picked up a book on baseball instead of pretending he liked horses. In other words the narrator is gay, and he is not really concerned with other's thoughts. <br /> <br /> Joe Bell is also a different type of character. He owns a bar, pops tums like candy, and takes care of flowers. Joe Bell's hobbies are hockey players, [http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art4814.asp weimaraner dogs], and [http://math.boisestate.edu/GaS/ Gilbert and Sullivan] (Capote 4). The narrator even goes on to say that Joe Bell is related to either Gilbert or Sullivan. &quot;Since Sullivan is rumored to be have been a homosexual...the passage slyly hints that the bartender is part of Sullivan's family, a fellow gay man to his beloved composer&quot; (Tison 2). Joe Bell also &quot;arranges flowers with matronly care&quot; (Capote 5). In today's society a masculine straight man does not arrange flowers with matronly care. All three of the main characters took delight in their unorthodox ways.<br /> <br /> ===Quest for Home/Belonging===<br /> <br /> Holly Golightly is a pure example of someone that is untameable. It's no wonder how she got that way. Doc Golightly, her husband, says, &quot;Story was: their mother died of TB ([http://www.cdc.gov/nchstp/tb/faqs/qa.htm Tuberculosis]), and their papa done the same - and all the churren, a whole raft of 'em, they been sent off to live with different mean people&quot; (Capote 68). From that line it is obvious that Holly Golightly never really had a home. She appears to spend the rest of her time trying to find one.<br /> <br /> One home that Holly has is at Tiffany's. Holly says, &quot;It calms me down right away, the quietness and proud look of it; nothing bad could happen to you there, not with those kind of men in their nice suits, and that lovely smell of silver and alligator wallets. If I could find a real life place that made me feel like Tiffany's, then I'd buy some furniture and give the cat a name&quot; (Capote 40). Matthew Cash states that this scene shows Holly's innocence and search for a home (3).<br /> <br /> Holly spends much of her time trying to belong to something or someone while at the same time trying not to. Perhaps she had abandonment issues. &quot;On the first night that Holly came to visit the narrator in his appartment she ends up sleeping beside him, showing that Holly needs someone who is comforting instead of lusting toward her&quot; (Cash 4). Perhaps Holly just needed to feel a love that didn't require anything back of her. Holly was human and she desired love, but at the same time she retreated when the narrator asked her why she was crying. Holly jumps up and heads for the window while hollering, &quot;I hate snoops&quot; (Capote 27). Holly had a desire for a home and a place to belong, but she appeared to be very leary of it all.<br /> <br /> ===Never Love a Wild Thing===<br /> <br /> Holly Golightly considered herself to be wild. She gives Joe Bell this speach and she says, &quot;Never love a wild thing, Mr. Bell...That was Doc's mistake. He was always lugging home wild things. A hawk with a hurt wing. One time it was a full-grown bobcat with a broken leg. But you can't give your heart to a wild thing: the more you do, the stronger they get. Until they're strong enough to run into the woods. Or fly into a tree. then a taller tree. Then the sky. That's how you'll end up, Mr. Bell. If you let yourself love a wild thing. You'll end up looking at the sky&quot; (Capote 74).<br /> <br /> Holly goes on to say, &quot;Good luck: and believe me, dearest Doc - it's better to look at the sky than live there. Such an empty place; so vague. Just a country where the thunder goes and things disappear&quot; (Capote 74). In one sentence she is telling Joe Bell not to love a wild thing and in the next she is admitting how unhappy she is. In the beginning of the story Joe Bell admits his love for Holly when he says, &quot;Sure I loved her. But it wasn't that I wanted to touch her&quot; (Capote 9). Maybe Holly knew about Joe Bell's love and was trying to warn him not to love her. While Holly admitted that she was wild she also admitted that she was unhappy.<br /> <br /> ===Joy/Difficulty of Traveling===<br /> <br /> Holly Golightly is a traveler who is searching for somewhere to call home. She even goes so far as to say:&quot;...home is where you feel at home. I'm still looking,&quot; she says (Capote 102). Everything she does throughout the book is based on that very way she looks at life (Cash). &quot;I'll never get used to anything. Anybody that does, they might as well be dead&quot; (Capote 19). <br /> <br /> Holly only seems to find happiness for a short time and it is quickly followed by something that drives her away. She has bad memories of almost every step of the way. From her marriage to Doc in Texas to her many male callers in New York, there is always something that drives at her. <br /> <br /> Holly's age, inexperience, and lack of direction may contribute to her inability to be happy. Her age is revealed by the narrarator:&quot;I thought her anywhere between sixteen and thirty; as it turned out, she was shy two months of her nineteenth birthday.&quot;(Capote 12-13). Her inexperience and young age has her unsure what she really wants out of her life. Holly would finally come to realization after losing her no-name cat. And even at the end of the novel, she is still in search of home.<br /> <br /> ==Major Symbols==<br /> ===Tiffany &amp; Co. ===<br /> <br /> Tiffany's is a jewelry store Holly feels is the best place for her to calm down and feel at home. She explains it as the cure for her &quot;mean reds&quot; to the narrarator (Cash):&quot;What I've found does the most good is just to get into a taxi and go to Tiffany's,&quot; Holly says (Capote 40).<br /> <br /> Tiffany's also symbolizes what Holly is searching for: a place she feels she belongs. A place she feels no harm can be done to her and she feels safe around men in particular.&quot;It calms me down right away, the quietness and the proud look of it; nothing very bad could happen to you there, not with those kind men in their nice suits, and that lovely smell of silver and alligator wallets&quot; (Capote 40).<br /> <br /> ===The &quot;Mean Reds&quot;===<br /> <br /> The &quot;mean reds&quot; was a reoccuring problem Holly has. The narrarator first associated the &quot;mean reds&quot; with the blues (Cash). Holly is quick to denounce that theory. &quot;No, the blues are because you're getting fat or maybe it's been raining too long. You're sad, that's all. But the mean reds are horrible. You're afraid and you sweat like hell, but you don't know what you're afraid of. Except something bad is going to happen, only you don't know what it is&quot;(Capote 40). The narrarator makes another attempt to give an explanation by calling it angst, claiming everyone feels that same way (Cash). Holly takes the suggestion of Rusty Trawler and smokes marijuana and took an aspirin.<br /> <br /> ===The Fat Lady===<br /> The fat lady was the female detective that wore the civilian clothes. The fat lady hair was &quot; thick yellow braids roped around her head.&quot; The fat lady detective talk in a baby voice. She told Holly &quot;come along, sister.&quot; You're going places.&quot; At this time, Holly did not want the fat lady hands touching her. Holly said: &quot;Get them cotton-pickin hands off of me, you dreary,driveling old bull-dyke.&quot; This made the fat lady angry, so she slapped Holly so damned hard across her face,her head spinned to her over shoulder. As the detectives started to escort Holly down the stairs, she yells &quot;please feed the cat.&quot;<br /> <br /> ===The Cat===<br /> Although Holly tries to act like the cat doesn't really matter to her as a possession, she really does feel that it belongs to her. Holly never really admits this fact until she leaves the cat, then can't find it. &quot;Oh Jesus God. we did belong to each other. He was mine.&quot; (Capote 109) The cat is one of the few things that holly truly feels is hers. Every time the cat appears in the story he seems to be the exact opposite of Holly, or acting in a complete opposite manner as Holly. &quot;Her at losing her nameless, battered &quot;slob&quot; of a cat, far from being a sentimental excess on her part (and the narrator's), is an intensely serious expression of profound fear of relinquishment.&quot; (Nance) Holly shares a feeling of not belonging and acting on a moments notice with the cat. &quot;Like the ugly tom cat she picks up by the river one day, her existence is improvised&quot; (Hassan) Holly finally shows her fear of &quot;perpetual homelessness&quot; (Hassan) when she drops the cat off in Spanish Harlem, and after not being able to find it says: “I’m very scared, Buster. Yes, at last. Because it could go on forever. Not knowing what's yours until you've thrown it away.&quot; (Capote 109)<br /> <br /> ===The Bird Cage===<br /> <br /> The narrator gives Holly the bird cage as a gift. The bird cage cost three-hundred fifty dollars. The bird cage came from Tiffany's. In return Holly gives the narrtor a Saint Christopher's Metal.<br /> <br /> ==Influences==<br /> Capote's life had a great deal of influence on the novella. Capote was a teenager when he began writing books, and the narrator also was a writer in his teens. Capote once said, &quot;I always knew that I wanted to be a writer and that I wanted to be rich and famous&quot; (Krebs). The narrator wanted to be a success early in life, and Capote expressed himself in the same sense. He knew &quot;[he] had to be successful, and [he] had to be successful early&quot; (Krebs). Capote turned into an alcholic because of his drinking at a young age. The narrator was also a heavy drinker. Holly and the narrator would go to the bar and drink many times. Capote was also a homosexual; his partner was Jack Dunphy [http://www.axiongraphicx.com/Capote.html]. In the novella, when the narrator is looking through Holly's book collection, he realizes that she only owns books about horses and baseball. The narrator has no interest in either subjuct. Holly mentions her love for horses. She explains to the narrator how she does not like baseball at all, but she reads books about it for research purposes. Holly informs the narrator that if a man does not like either subject then she is in trouble any way because he does not like girls. The narrator's life in the novella as well as Holly Golightly's was almost a mirror image of Capote.<br /> <br /> In real life, Truman Capote's mother's name was Lillie Mae [http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/capote.htm] which is very similar to the real name he chose to give Holly of Lulamae. It is also interesting that the narrator in the novella is an aspiring writer just as Capote had been when he moved to New York and he also is given the same birthday as Capote which is September 30th. <br /> <br /> Some have said that Capote's works were possibly influenced by the works of Edgar Allan Poe but looking closely to Capote's own life experiences, this novella seems to be solely influenced by his own life with a bit of a flare.<br /> <br /> ==Additional Resources==<br /> *Capote, Truman. &lt;em&gt;The Complete Stories of Truman Capote.&lt;/em&gt; New York: The Random House Publishing Group, 2004.<br /> <br /> *Clarke, Gerald. &lt;i&gt;Capote: A Biography&lt;/i&gt;. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1988.<br /> <br /> *Garsen, Helen S. &lt;i&gt;Truman Capote&lt;/i&gt;. New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Company, 1980.<br /> <br /> *Goyen, William. &quot;That Old Valentine Maker.&quot; New York Times Book Review. November 1958:5,38.<br /> <br /> ==Works Cited==<br /> *Capote, Truman. ''Breakfast at Tiffany's''. New York: Vintage Books - A division of Random House, 1993.<br /> <br /> *Cash, Matthew. ''The Breakfast at Tiffany's Homepage''. 1996. University of Michigan. 14 March 2006. &lt;www.personal.umich.edu/~bcash/criticalanalysis.html&gt;<br /> *Hassan, Ihab H. &quot;Wisconsin Studies in Contemporary Literature&quot;. Vol.1, No.2. Spring, 1960. pp.5-21<br /> <br /> *Krebs, Albin. &quot;Truman Capote Is Dead at 59; Novelist of Style and Clarity&quot;. The New York Times on the web. 28 Aug.1984 &lt;www.nytimes.com/books/97/12/28/home/capote-obit.html&gt;<br /> <br /> *Levine, Paul. ''Book Review of Breakfeast at Tiffany's/Levine''. The Georgia Review.3/(1959): 350-352<br /> <br /> *Nance, Willaim L.&quot;The Worlds of Truman Capote, Stein and Day&quot; 1970.Contemporary Literary Criticism.<br /> <br /> *Plimpton, George. ''Truman Capote: In Which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintances,and Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career''. New York: Doubleday Dell Publishing Group. 1997.<br /> <br /> *Pugh, Tison. ''Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's''. ''The Explicator''. 6/(2002): 51-53<br /> <br /> *Grzesiak, Rich. &quot;My Significant Other, Truman Capote&quot;. [http://axiongrafix.com/capote.html]. 1987.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> [[Category:Literature]]</div>

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<p>Rscot899: </p> <hr /> <div>== Summary ==<br /> Section eight of Truman Capote's &lt;i&gt;BaT&lt;/i&gt; begins with the title to a shocking newspaper clipping. It reads, &quot;Trawler marries fourth&quot; (74). The narrator reads this clip while riding the subway home from an unsuccessful job interview. He immediately assumes that Rusty Trawler, a playboy that the narrator has come to loath, has taken Holly to be his fourth wife. His first wish after reading this portion of the article is to be underneath the wheels of the train. He justifies his wish by explaining the recent comings and goings in his life. His &quot;mean reds,&quot; as he puts it, come from many places at once. First of all, he admits that he has been recently fired from his job. The details of his dismissal are &quot;too complicated to recount&quot; (75). Secondly, he has reason to believe that his draft board is pursuing him in an effort to get him to join the military. He says, &quot;The idea of entering another form of disciplined life made me desperate&quot; (75). This causes his frustration to multiply because he cannot seem to find a job. In fact his unfruitful interview with the ''PM,'' a newspaper now closed down, is what he is returning from at the beginning of this section. Most obviously, he believes that Holly has married a man that he completely detests. His mounting jealousy causes him to admit that he does, in fact, love Holly. He also notes that his love for Holly is an identical love that he has experienced with an elderly colored cook and an entire family, probably friends, that he knew when he was younger. Upon reaching the station, he breaks down to his curiosity and buys a paper in order to read the entire article. Much to his surprise, Rusty did not marry Holly! He married Holly's roommate Mag Wildwood. His excitement that Holly is not married to Rusty causes his legs to shake so badly that he must ride a cab home instead of walking. <br /> <br /> The surprises seem to keep coming for the narrator when he finally reaches his apartment building. Madame Spanella is screaming in fear for the police to come. The narrator also notes quite a din coming from a higher floor. Madame Spanella raves, &quot;She is killing somebody! Somebody is killing her!&quot; (76). Instead of going for help the narrator bounds up the steps to the source of the noises which is, of course, Holly's door. After pounding the door with a fist, the noises subside, but no matter how many times he calls, Holly will not come to the door. He futilely throws himself at the door, trying to break in, until Jose Ybarra-Jager, Mag Wildwood's ex-fiance, arrives on the scene followed by a doctor. The narrator crossly notes that Jose opens the door to the apartment with his own key. Following the other two men inside, the narrator finds the apartment in disarray, the cat lapping up milk from the floor (the milk was spilled in the fray), and Holly standing, rigid on the bed. She is muttering an incoherent description of her brother, Fred. The doctor quickly begins to vocally soothe Holly as well as injecting her with a sedative. Jose continues asking the doctor (in bad English) if &quot;Her only sickness is grief?&quot; (78). Annoyed with Jose's questions, he forcefully ejects the other two men from the room. Jose, in anger, chases the snooping Madame Spanella out of the room, and he almost repeats this action with the narrator. In the end though, Jose invites the narrator to sit with him and have a drink which happens to be the only bottle that survived Holly's rampage. Through conversation, the narrator learns that all Jose is worried about is how people might think that he caused Holly to have such a terrible fit. Jose is a politician, and he is afraid of being defaced. Later, Jose finds a telegram on the floor that explains Holly's tantrum. The telegram is a message from Doc, Holly's husband, sent to inform Holly of her brother's death in the war. <br /> <br /> After that day, Holly seems to hibernate. She ceases to talk about her brother (a once common occurrence). She also stops calling the narrator Fred. She now re-dubs him &quot;Buster.&quot; He observes that Holly's hair gets darker and she puts on a lot of weight. On a positive note, Holly becomes quite a home maker. She purchases many classy items to decorate her apartment such as: tapestries, Gothic arm chairs, and several other ambiance producing items. Furthermore, the purchase of cookbooks leads to Holly's becoming a very good cook. Oddly enough though, she could only cook delicacies. When she tries to scramble eggs, she simply burns them. <br /> <br /> Jose, being a diplomat, works in Washington D.C. three days out of the week. While he is gone, the narrator and Holly meet to go on walks or to go out to dinner. During a conversation, the narrator learns that Holly is six weeks pregnant. She then rambles on about how she wants to have nine children with Jose, and ceaselessly talks about how much she looks forward to moving with Jose to Rio. In fact the only regret that Holly mentions is that she wishes that she could have been a virgin for Jose. 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. &quot;If I were free to...,&quot; Holly continues, &quot;I would not pick Jose&quot; (82). The narrator, after hearing so much about Jose (more than he would like), begins to dislike Jose very much. He even stops saying Jose's name while he is speaking to Holly and simply refers to Jose as &quot;Him.&quot; Holly moves to a different subject and talks about giving up her horoscopes. She believes that this is an example of a good deed. She thinks that &quot;good things happen to those that are good&quot; (83). Later, on an outing, Holly observes ships sailing by and exclaims,&quot; one day, one of those ships would bring me back, me and my nine Brazillion brats&quot;(84). The narrator, tired of hearing about her &quot;brats&quot; and Jose, says &quot;Do shut up&quot;(85). He clearly felt left out, &quot;like a tug boat in drydock while she, glittery voyager of secure destination, steamed down the harbor with whistles whistling and confetti in the air&quot; (85).<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> == Notes ==<br /> *'''&quot;The now defunct newspaper, ''PM''&quot;''' (75) - A left-wing daily newspaper in New York City, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PM_%28newspaper%29 ''PM''] stood for &quot;Picture Magazine,&quot; 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''.<br /> <br /> *'''&quot;A Parke-Bernet Auction&quot;''' (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.<br /> <br /> *'''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 &quot;yellow journalism&quot;] and waas a leader of the liberal wing of the Democratic party from 1896 to 1935.<br /> <br /> *'''Modern Library''' (80) - A division of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_House Randolph House Publishers]. Founded in 1917, it identified itself as &quot;The Modern Library of the World's Best Books.&quot;<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''Waring mixer''' (80) - [http://www.waringproducts.com Waring] is a leading manufacturer of small appliances for the home, food service, and laboratory industries.<br /> <br /> *'''Hausfrau''' (80) - Translated from German to English, &quot;housewife.&quot;<br /> <br /> *'''Outré''' (81) - Highly unconventional; eccentric or bizarre.<br /> <br /> *'''Terrapin''' (81) - An [http://images.google.com/images?q=terrapin&amp;hl=en amphibious reptile turtle] that can live in the water and on land.<br /> <br /> *'''&quot;Nero-ish novelties&quot;''' (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].<br /> <br /> *'''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 &quot;dry fruit,&quot; is an edible fruit borne by some species of the genus [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diospyros ''Diospyros''].<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''Joss sticks''' (84) - Slender sticks of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incense incense] burned before a Chinese image, idol, or shrine.<br /> <br /> == Commentary ==<br /> Capote seems to have known someone in his life that he loved as much as the narrator loves Holly.&quot; 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.&quot; [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.&quot; &lt;i&gt;BaT&lt;/i&gt; inspired women to pack their bags and seek their fortunes in New York and all over the country.&quot;[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 &quot;learning&quot; that Holly has married Rusty. 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 &quot;party girl-about-town and exuberant phony&quot; [http://www.jp41.dial.pipex.com/R735.HTML (Prior)] that he knew becomes a mostly content stay-at-home-wife. <br /> <br /> 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 &quot;non-rat&quot; lover in her life. This is an easy statement to believe, as most early referances to Holly's love life make strong referances to prostitution. Taking men to the powder room and coming out with money, for example. She labels all of her past lovers &quot;rats&quot;, but she forces herself to see an allure in them. &quot;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.&quot; [http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bcash/criticalanalysis.html (Cash)]<br /> <br /> This stage of the story is one of the narrator's last chances to tell Holly how he really feels. So why dosen'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. Though his &quot;plan&quot; 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, &quot;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&quot; (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. Pugh writes, &quot;...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.&quot; Dependig 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. <br /> <br /> Regardless of her true intentions, this section ends with the narrator giving a wonderful metaphore.&quot; So the days, the last days, blow about in memory...all alike as leaves...&quot;(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 like. The narrator feels the same way about his final days with Holly. He can tell little difference between them, and he spent most of the time with her worrying about the time that she would be away from him. Also like falling leaves, these memories seemed to blow away, unable to be caught to hold on to as a keepsake.<br /> <br /> == Study Questions ==<br /> #Who is it that the narrator believes Holly has married?<br /> #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 &quot;were under the wheels of the train&quot;?<br /> #Who turns out to be the woman that has gotten married?<br /> #What is Dr. Goldman's explanation for Holly's fit?<br /> #What is the real reason for Holly's fit?<br /> #Whose name replaces Mag Wildwood's on Holly's mailbox?<br /> #Holly mentions something of importance to the narrator, while she is talking about her feelings for Jose. What is it?<br /> #Holly says that she would rather have cancer than a what?<br /> #In your opinion, how does Capote relate to the narrator in real life as far as his relationship with Holly?<br /> #What name does Holly give the narrator after her brother dies?<br /> #What kind of boat does the narrator relate himself to? What kind of boat does he picture Holly as?<br /> #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?<br /> <br /> == External Resources ==<br /> *Cash, Matthew. [http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bcash/criticalanalysis.html A Travelin' Through the Pastures of the Sky: A Critical Analysis of &lt;i&gt;Breakfast at Tiffany's&lt;/i&gt;]. 1996.<br /> <br /> == Works Cited ==<br /> *Prior, Lily. &quot;''Breakfast At Tiffany's'' Review.&quot;<br /> 18 March 2006.&lt;http://www.jp41.dial.pipex.com/R735.HTML&gt;<br /> <br /> *Kimbofo. &quot;''At Breakfast Tiffany's'' Reviews.&quot;<br /> ''Reading Matters''. 17 January 2006. 18 March 2006.<br /> &lt;http://kimbofo.typepad.com/readingmatters/2006/01/breakfast_at_ti.html&gt;<br /> <br /> *Pugh, Tison.: Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's.<br /> Explicator (Helen Dwight Reid Educational Foundation, Washington, DC) (61:1) [Fall 2002] , p.51-53.<br /> <br /> *Capote, Truman. ''Breakfast At Tiffany's''. New York: Random House, Inc, 1958.<br /> ----<br /> [[Breakfast at Tiffany's]]</div>

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<p>Rscot899: </p> <hr /> <div>== Summary ==<br /> Section eight of Truman Capote's &lt;i&gt;BaT&lt;/i&gt; begins with the title to a shocking newspaper clipping. It reads, &quot;Trawler marries fourth&quot; (74). The narrator reads this clip while riding the subway home from an unsuccessful job interview. He immediately assumes that Rusty Trawler, a playboy that the narrator has come to loath, has taken Holly to be his fourth wife. His first wish after reading this portion of the article is to be underneath the wheels of the train. He justifies his wish by explaining the recent comings and goings in his life. His &quot;mean reds,&quot; as he puts it, come from many places at once. First of all, he admits that he has been recently fired from his job. The details of his dismissal are &quot;too complicated to recount&quot; (75). Secondly, he has reason to believe that his draft board is pursuing him in an effort to get him to join the military. He says, &quot;The idea of entering another form of disciplined life made me desperate&quot; (75). This causes his frustration to multiply because he cannot seem to find a job. In fact his unfruitful interview with the ''PM,'' a newspaper now closed down, is what he is returning from at the beginning of this section. Most obviously, he believes that Holly has married a man that he completely detests. His mounting jealousy causes him to admit that he does, in fact, love Holly. He also notes that his love for Holly is an identical love that he has experienced with an elderly colored cook and an entire family, probably friends, that he knew when he was younger. Upon reaching the station, he breaks down to his curiosity and buys a paper in order to read the entire article. Much to his surprise, Rusty did not marry Holly! He married Holly's roommate Mag Wildwood. His excitement that Holly is not married to Rusty causes his legs to shake so badly that he must ride a cab home instead of walking. <br /> <br /> The surprises seem to keep coming for the narrator when he finally reaches his apartment building. Madame Spanella is screaming in fear for the police to come. The narrator also notes quite a din coming from a higher floor. Madame Spanella raves, &quot;She is killing somebody! Somebody is killing her!&quot; (76). Instead of going for help the narrator bounds up the steps to the source of the noises which is, of course, Holly's door. After pounding the door with a fist, the noises subside, but no matter how many times he calls, Holly will not come to the door. He futilely throws himself at the door, trying to break in, until Jose Ybarra-Jager, Mag Wildwood's ex-fiance, arrives on the scene followed by a doctor. The narrator crossly notes that Jose opens the door to the apartment with his own key. Following the other two men inside, the narrator finds the apartment in disarray, the cat lapping up milk from the floor (the milk was spilled in the fray), and Holly standing, rigid on the bed. She is muttering an incoherent description of her brother, Fred. The doctor quickly begins to vocally soothe Holly as well as injecting her with a sedative. Jose continues asking the doctor (in bad English) if &quot;Her only sickness is grief?&quot; (78). Annoyed with Jose's questions, he forcefully ejects the other two men from the room. Jose, in anger, chases the snooping Madame Spanella out of the room, and he almost repeats this action with the narrator. In the end though, Jose invites the narrator to sit with him and have a drink which happens to be the only bottle that survived Holly's rampage. Through conversation, the narrator learns that all Jose is worried about is how people might think that he caused Holly to have such a terrible fit. Jose is a politician, and he is afraid of being defaced. Later, Jose finds a telegram on the floor that explains Holly's tantrum. The telegram is a message from Doc, Holly's husband, sent to inform Holly of her brother's death in the war. <br /> <br /> After that day, Holly seems to hibernate. She ceases to talk about her brother (a once common occurrence). She also stops calling the narrator Fred. She now re-dubs him &quot;Buster.&quot; He observes that Holly's hair gets darker and she puts on a lot of weight. On a positive note, Holly becomes quite a home maker. She purchases many classy items to decorate her apartment such as: tapestries, Gothic arm chairs, and several other ambiance producing items. Furthermore, the purchase of cookbooks leads to Holly's becoming a very good cook. Oddly enough though, she could only cook delicacies. When she tries to scramble eggs, she simply burns them. <br /> <br /> Jose, being a diplomat, works in Washington D.C. three days out of the week. While he is gone, the narrator and Holly meet to go on walks or to go out to dinner. During a conversation, the narrator learns that Holly is six weeks pregnant. She then rambles on about how she wants to have nine children with Jose, and ceaselessly talks about how much she looks forward to moving with Jose to Rio. In fact the only regret that Holly mentions is that she wishes that she could have been a virgin for Jose. 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. &quot;If I were free to...,&quot; Holly continues, &quot;I would not pick Jose&quot; (82). The narrator, after hearing so much about Jose (more than he would like), begins to dislike Jose very much. He even stops saying Jose's name while he is speaking to Holly and simply refers to Jose as &quot;Him.&quot; Holly moves to a different subject and talks about giving up her horoscopes. She believes that this is an example of a good deed. She thinks that &quot;good things happen to those that are good&quot; (83). Later, on an outing, Holly observes ships sailing by and exclaims,&quot; one day, one of those ships would bring me back, me and my nine Brazillion brats&quot;(84). The narrator, tired of hearing about her &quot;brats&quot; and Jose, says &quot;Do shut up&quot;(85). He clearly felt left out, &quot;like a tug boat in drydock while she, glittery voyager of secure destination, steamed down the harbor with whistles whistling and confetti in the air&quot; (85).<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> == Notes ==<br /> *'''&quot;The now defunct newspaper, ''PM''&quot;''' (75) - A left-wing daily newspaper in New York City, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PM_%28newspaper%29 ''PM''] stood for &quot;Picture Magazine,&quot; 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''.<br /> <br /> *'''&quot;A Parke-Bernet Auction&quot;''' (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.<br /> <br /> *'''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 &quot;yellow journalism&quot;] and waas a leader of the liberal wing of the Democratic party from 1896 to 1935.<br /> <br /> *'''Modern Library''' (80) - A division of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_House Randolph House Publishers]. Founded in 1917, it identified itself as &quot;The Modern Library of the World's Best Books.&quot;<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''Waring mixer''' (80) - [http://www.waringproducts.com Waring] is a leading manufacturer of small appliances for the home, food service, and laboratory industries.<br /> <br /> *'''Hausfrau''' (80) - Translated from German to English, &quot;housewife.&quot;<br /> <br /> *'''Outré''' (81) - Highly unconventional; eccentric or bizarre.<br /> <br /> *'''Terrapin''' (81) - An [http://images.google.com/images?q=terrapin&amp;hl=en amphibious reptile turtle] that can live in the water and on land.<br /> <br /> *'''&quot;Nero-ish novelties&quot;''' (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].<br /> <br /> *'''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 &quot;dry fruit,&quot; is an edible fruit borne by some species of the genus [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diospyros ''Diospyros''].<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''Joss sticks''' (84) - Slender sticks of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incense incense] burned before a Chinese image, idol, or shrine.<br /> <br /> == Commentary ==<br /> Capote seems to have known someone in his life that he loved as much as the narrator loves Holly.&quot; 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.&quot; [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.&quot; &lt;i&gt;BaT&lt;/i&gt; inspired women to pack their bags and seek their fortunes in New York all over the country.&quot;[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 &quot;learning&quot; that Holly has married Rusty. 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 &quot;party girl-about-town and exuberant phony&quot; [http://www.jp41.dial.pipex.com/R735.HTML (Prior)] that he knew becomes a mostly content stay-at-home-wife. <br /> <br /> 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 &quot;non-rat&quot; lover in her life. This is an easy statement to believe, as most early referances to Holly's love life make strong referances to prostitution. Taking men to the powder room and coming out with money, for example. She labels all of her past lovers &quot;rats&quot;, but she forces herself to see an allure in them. &quot;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.&quot; [http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bcash/criticalanalysis.html (Cash)]<br /> <br /> This stage of the story is one of the narrator's last chances to tell Holly how he really feels. So why dosen'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. Though his &quot;plan&quot; 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, &quot;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&quot; (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. Pugh writes, &quot;...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.&quot; Dependig 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. <br /> <br /> Regardless of her true intentions, this section ends with the narrator giving a wonderful metaphore.&quot; So the days, the last days, blow about in memory...all alike as leaves...&quot;(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 like. The narrator feels the same way about his final days with Holly. He can tell little difference between them, and he spent most of the time with her worrying about the time that she would be away from him. Also like falling leaves, these memories seemed to blow away, unable to be caught to hold on to as a keepsake.<br /> <br /> == Study Questions ==<br /> #Who is it that the narrator believes Holly has married?<br /> #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 &quot;were under the wheels of the train&quot;?<br /> #Who turns out to be the woman that has gotten married?<br /> #What is Dr. Goldman's explanation for Holly's fit?<br /> #What is the real reason for Holly's fit?<br /> #Whose name replaces Mag Wildwood's on Holly's mailbox?<br /> #Holly mentions something of importance to the narrator, while she is talking about her feelings for Jose. What is it?<br /> #Holly says that she would rather have cancer than a what?<br /> #In your opinion, how does Capote relate to the narrator in real life as far as his relationship with Holly?<br /> #What name does Holly give the narrator after her brother dies?<br /> #What kind of boat does the narrator relate himself to? What kind of boat does he picture Holly as?<br /> #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?<br /> <br /> == External Resources ==<br /> *Cash, Matthew. [http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bcash/criticalanalysis.html A Travelin' Through the Pastures of the Sky: A Critical Analysis of &lt;i&gt;Breakfast at Tiffany's&lt;/i&gt;]. 1996.<br /> <br /> == Works Cited ==<br /> *Prior, Lily. &quot;''Breakfast At Tiffany's'' Review.&quot;<br /> 18 March 2006.&lt;http://www.jp41.dial.pipex.com/R735.HTML&gt;<br /> <br /> *Kimbofo. &quot;''At Breakfast Tiffany's'' Reviews.&quot;<br /> ''Reading Matters''. 17 January 2006. 18 March 2006.<br /> &lt;http://kimbofo.typepad.com/readingmatters/2006/01/breakfast_at_ti.html&gt;<br /> <br /> *Pugh, Tison.: Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's.<br /> Explicator (Helen Dwight Reid Educational Foundation, Washington, DC) (61:1) [Fall 2002] , p.51-53.<br /> <br /> *Capote, Truman. ''Breakfast At Tiffany's''. New York: Random House, Inc, 1958.<br /> ----<br /> [[Breakfast at Tiffany's]]</div>

Rscot899 https://litwiki.org/index.php?title=Breakfast_at_Tiffany%27s_Section_8&diff=6159 2006-03-21T15:35:14Z

<p>Rscot899: </p> <hr /> <div>== Summary ==<br /> Section eight of Truman Capote's &lt;i&gt;BaT&lt;/i&gt; begins with the title to a shocking newspaper clipping. It reads, &quot;Trawler marries fourth&quot; (74). The narrator reads this clip while riding the subway home from an unsuccessful job interview. He immediately assumes that Rusty Trawler, a playboy that the narrator has come to loath, has taken Holly to be his fourth wife. His first wish after reading this portion of the article is to be underneath the wheels of the train. He justifies his wish by explaining the recent comings and goings in his life. His &quot;mean reds,&quot; as he puts it, come from many places at once. First of all, he admits that he has been recently fired from his job. The details of his dismissal are &quot;too complicated to recount&quot; (75). Secondly, he has reason to believe that his draft board is pursuing him in an effort to get him to join the military. He says, &quot;The idea of entering another form of disciplined life made me desperate&quot; (75). This causes his frustration to multiply because he cannot seem to find a job. In fact his unfruitful interview with the ''PM,'' a newspaper now closed down, is what he is returning from at the beginning of this section. Most obviously, he believes that Holly has married a man that he completely detests. His mounting jealousy causes him to admit that he does, in fact, love Holly. He also notes that his love for Holly is an identical love that he has experienced with an elderly colored cook and an entire family, probably friends, that he knew when he was younger. Upon reaching the station, he breaks down to his curiosity and buys a paper in order to read the entire article. Much to his surprise, Rusty did not marry Holly! He married Holly's roommate Mag Wildwood. His excitement that Holly is not married to Rusty causes his legs to shake so badly that he must ride a cab home instead of walking. <br /> <br /> The surprises seem to keep coming for the narrator when he finally reaches his apartment building. Madame Spanella is screaming in fear for the police to come. The narrator also notes quite a din coming from a higher floor. Madame Spanella raves, &quot;She is killing somebody! Somebody is killing her!&quot; (76). Instead of going for help the narrator bounds up the steps to the source of the noises which is, of course, Holly's door. After pounding the door with a fist, the noises subside, but no matter how many times he calls, Holly will not come to the door. He futilely throws himself at the door, trying to break in, until Jose Ybarra-Jager, Mag Wildwood's ex-fiance, arrives on the scene followed by a doctor. The narrator crossly notes that Jose opens the door to the apartment with his own key. Following the other two men inside, the narrator finds the apartment in disarray, the cat lapping up milk from the floor (the milk was spilled in the fray), and Holly standing, rigid on the bed. She is muttering an incoherent description of her brother, Fred. The doctor quickly begins to vocally soothe Holly as well as injecting her with a sedative. Jose continues asking the doctor (in bad English) if &quot;Her only sickness is grief?&quot; (78). Annoyed with Jose's questions, he forcefully ejects the other two men from the room. Jose, in anger, chases the snooping Madame Spanella out of the room, and he almost repeats this action with the narrator. In the end though, Jose invites the narrator to sit with him and have a drink which happens to be the only bottle that survived Holly's rampage. Through conversation, the narrator learns that all Jose is worried about is how people might think that he caused Holly to have such a terrible fit. Jose is a politician, and he is afraid of being defaced. Later, Jose finds a telegram on the floor that explains Holly's tantrum. The telegram is a message from Doc, Holly's husband, sent to inform Holly of her brother's death in the war. <br /> <br /> After that day, Holly seems to hibernate. She ceases to talk about her brother (a once common occurrence). She also stops calling the narrator Fred. She now re-dubs him &quot;Buster.&quot; He observes that Holly's hair gets darker and she puts on a lot of weight. On a positive note, Holly becomes quite a home maker. She purchases many classy items to decorate her apartment such as: tapestries, Gothic arm chairs, and several other ambiance producing items. Furthermore, the purchase of cookbooks leads to Holly's becoming a very good cook. Oddly enough though, she could only cook delicacies. When she tries to scramble eggs, she simply burns them. <br /> <br /> Jose, being a diplomat, works in Washington D.C. three days out of the week. While he is gone, the narrator and Holly meet to go on walks or to go out to dinner. During a conversation, the narrator learns that Holly is six weeks pregnant. She then rambles on about how she wants to have nine children with Jose, and ceaselessly talks about how much she looks forward to moving with Jose to Rio. In fact the only regret that Holly mentions is that she wishes that she could have been a virgin for Jose. 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. &quot;If I were free to...,&quot; Holly continues, &quot;I would not pick Jose&quot; (82). The narrator, after hearing so much about Jose (more than he would like), begins to dislike Jose very much. He even stops saying Jose's name while he is speaking to Holly and simply refers to Jose as &quot;Him.&quot; Holly moves to a different subject and talks about giving up her horoscopes. She believes that this is an example of a good deed. She thinks that &quot;good things happen to those that are good&quot; (83). Later, on an outing, Holly observes ships sailing by and exclaims,&quot; one day, one of those ships would bring me back, me and my nine Brazillion brats&quot;(84). The narrator, tired of hearing about her &quot;brats&quot; and Jose, says &quot;Do shut up&quot;(85). He clearly felt left out, &quot;like a tug boat in drydock while she, glittery voyager of secure destination, steamed down the harbor with whistles whistling and confetti in the air&quot; (85).<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> == Notes ==<br /> *'''&quot;The now defunct newspaper, ''PM''&quot;''' (75) - A left-wing daily newspaper in New York City, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PM_%28newspaper%29 ''PM''] stood for &quot;Picture Magazine,&quot; 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''.<br /> <br /> *'''&quot;A Parke-Bernet Auction&quot;''' (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.<br /> <br /> *'''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 &quot;yellow journalism&quot;] and waas a leader of the liberal wing of the Democratic party from 1896 to 1935.<br /> <br /> *'''Modern Library''' (80) - A division of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_House Randolph House Publishers]. Founded in 1917, it identified itself as &quot;The Modern Library of the World's Best Books.&quot;<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''Waring mixer''' (80) - [http://www.waringproducts.com Waring] is a leading manufacturer of small appliances for the home, food service, and laboratory industries.<br /> <br /> *'''Hausfrau''' (80) - Translated from German to English, &quot;housewife.&quot;<br /> <br /> *'''Outré''' (81) - Highly unconventional; eccentric or bizarre.<br /> <br /> *'''Terrapin''' (81) - An [http://images.google.com/images?q=terrapin&amp;hl=en amphibious reptile turtle] that can live in the water and on land.<br /> <br /> *'''&quot;Nero-ish novelties&quot;''' (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].<br /> <br /> *'''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 &quot;dry fruit,&quot; is an edible fruit borne by some species of the genus [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diospyros ''Diospyros''].<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''Joss sticks''' (84) - Slender sticks of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incense incense] burned before a Chinese image, idol, or shrine.<br /> <br /> == Commentary ==<br /> Capote seems to have known someone in his life that he loved as much as the narrator loves Holly.&quot; 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.&quot; [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.&quot; &lt;i&gt;BaTs&lt;/i&gt; inspired women to pack their bags and seek their fortunes in New York all over the country.&quot;[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 &quot;learning&quot; that Holly has married Rusty. 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 &quot;party girl-about-town and exuberant phony&quot; [http://www.jp41.dial.pipex.com/R735.HTML (Prior)] that he knew becomes a mostly content stay-at-home-wife. <br /> <br /> 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 &quot;non-rat&quot; lover in her life. This is an easy statement to believe, as most early referances to Holly's love life make strong referances to prostitution. Taking men to the powder room and coming out with money, for example. She labels all of her past lovers &quot;rats&quot;, but she forces herself to see an allure in them. &quot;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.&quot; [http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bcash/criticalanalysis.html (Cash)]<br /> <br /> This stage of the story is one of the narrator's last chances to tell Holly how he really feels. So why dosen'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. Though his &quot;plan&quot; 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, &quot;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&quot; (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. Pugh writes, &quot;...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.&quot; Dependig 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. <br /> <br /> Regardless of her true intentions, this section ends with the narrator giving a wonderful metaphore.&quot; So the days, the last days, blow about in memory...all alike as leaves...&quot;(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 like. The narrator feels the same way about his final days with Holly. He can tell little difference between them, and he spent most of the time with her worrying about the time that she would be away from him. Also like falling leaves, these memories seemed to blow away, unable to be caught to hold on to as a keepsake.<br /> <br /> == Study Questions ==<br /> #Who is it that the narrator believes Holly has married?<br /> #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 &quot;were under the wheels of the train&quot;?<br /> #Who turns out to be the woman that has gotten married?<br /> #What is Dr. Goldman's explanation for Holly's fit?<br /> #What is the real reason for Holly's fit?<br /> #Whose name replaces Mag Wildwood's on Holly's mailbox?<br /> #Holly mentions something of importance to the narrator, while she is talking about her feelings for Jose. What is it?<br /> #Holly says that she would rather have cancer than a what?<br /> #In your opinion, how does Capote relate to the narrator in real life as far as his relationship with Holly?<br /> #What name does Holly give the narrator after her brother dies?<br /> #What kind of boat does the narrator relate himself to? What kind of boat does he picture Holly as?<br /> #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?<br /> <br /> == External Resources ==<br /> *Cash, Matthew. [http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bcash/criticalanalysis.html A Travelin' Through the Pastures of the Sky: A Critical Analysis of &lt;i&gt;Breakfast at Tiffany's&lt;/i&gt;]. 1996.<br /> <br /> == Works Cited ==<br /> *Prior, Lily. &quot;''Breakfast At Tiffany's'' Review.&quot;<br /> 18 March 2006.&lt;http://www.jp41.dial.pipex.com/R735.HTML&gt;<br /> <br /> *Kimbofo. &quot;''At Breakfast Tiffany's'' Reviews.&quot;<br /> ''Reading Matters''. 17 January 2006. 18 March 2006.<br /> &lt;http://kimbofo.typepad.com/readingmatters/2006/01/breakfast_at_ti.html&gt;<br /> <br /> *Pugh, Tison.: Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's.<br /> Explicator (Helen Dwight Reid Educational Foundation, Washington, DC) (61:1) [Fall 2002] , p.51-53.<br /> <br /> *Capote, Truman. ''Breakfast At Tiffany's''. New York: Random House, Inc, 1958.<br /> ----<br /> [[Breakfast at Tiffany's]]</div>

Rscot899 https://litwiki.org/index.php?title=Breakfast_at_Tiffany%27s_Section_8&diff=6157 2006-03-21T15:34:35Z

<p>Rscot899: </p> <hr /> <div>== Summary ==<br /> Section eight of Truman Capote's &lt;i&gt;BaT&lt;/i&gt; begins with the title to a shocking newspaper clipping. It reads, &quot;Trawler marries fourth&quot; (74). The narrator reads this clip while riding the subway home from an unsuccessful job interview. He immediately assumes that Rusty Trawler, a playboy that the narrator has come to loath, has taken Holly to be his fourth wife. His first wish after reading this portion of the article is to be underneath the wheels of the train. He justifies his wish by explaining the recent comings and goings in his life. His &quot;mean reds,&quot; as he puts it, come from many places at once. First of all, he admits that he has been recently fired from his job. The details of his dismissal are &quot;too complicated to recount&quot; (75). Secondly, he has reason to believe that his draft board is pursuing him in an effort to get him to join the military. He says, &quot;The idea of entering another form of disciplined life made me desperate&quot; (75). This causes his frustration to multiply because he cannot seem to find a job. In fact his unfruitful interview with the ''PM,'' a newspaper now closed down, is what he is returning from at the beginning of this section. Most obviously, he believes that Holly has married a man that he completely detests. His mounting jealousy causes him to admit that he does, in fact, love Holly. He also notes that his love for Holly is an identical love that he has experienced with an elderly colored cook and an entire family, probably friends, that he knew when he was younger. Upon reaching the station, he breaks down to his curiosity and buys a paper in order to read the entire article. Much to his surprise, Rusty did not marry Holly! He married Holly's roommate Mag Wildwood. His excitement that Holly is not married to Rusty causes his legs to shake so badly that he must ride a cab home instead of walking. <br /> <br /> The surprises seem to keep coming for the narrator when he finally reaches his apartment building. Madame Spanella is screaming in fear for the police to come. The narrator also notes quite a din coming from a higher floor. Madame Spanella raves, &quot;She is killing somebody! Somebody is killing her!&quot; (76). Instead of going for help the narrator bounds up the steps to the source of the noises which is, of course, Holly's door. After pounding the door with a fist, the noises subside, but no matter how many times he calls, Holly will not come to the door. He futilely throws himself at the door, trying to break in, until Jose Ybarra-Jager, Mag Wildwood's ex-fiance, arrives on the scene followed by a doctor. The narrator crossly notes that Jose opens the door to the apartment with his own key. Following the other two men inside, the narrator finds the apartment in disarray, the cat lapping up milk from the floor (the milk was spilled in the fray), and Holly standing, rigid on the bed. She is muttering an incoherent description of her brother, Fred. The doctor quickly begins to vocally soothe Holly as well as injecting her with a sedative. Jose continues asking the doctor (in bad English) if &quot;Her only sickness is grief?&quot; (78). Annoyed with Jose's questions, he forcefully ejects the other two men from the room. Jose, in anger, chases the snooping Madame Spanella out of the room, and he almost repeats this action with the narrator. In the end though, Jose invites the narrator to sit with him and have a drink which happens to be the only bottle that survived Holly's rampage. Through conversation, the narrator learns that all Jose is worried about is how people might think that he caused Holly to have such a terrible fit. Jose is a politician, and he is afraid of being defaced. Later, Jose finds a telegram on the floor that explains Holly's tantrum. The telegram is a message from Doc, Holly's husband, sent to inform Holly of her brother's death in the war. <br /> <br /> After that day, Holly seems to hibernate. She ceases to talk about her brother (a once common occurrence). She also stops calling the narrator Fred. She now re-dubs him &quot;Buster.&quot; He observes that Holly's hair gets darker and she puts on a lot of weight. On a positive note, Holly becomes quite a home maker. She purchases many classy items to decorate her apartment such as: tapestries, Gothic arm chairs, and several other ambiance producing items. Furthermore, the purchase of cookbooks leads to Holly's becoming a very good cook. Oddly enough though, she could only cook delicacies. When she tries to scramble eggs, she simply burns them. <br /> <br /> Jose, being a diplomat, works in Washington D.C. three days out of the week. While he is gone, the narrator and Holly meet to go on walks or to go out to dinner. During a conversation, the narrator learns that Holly is six weeks pregnant. She then rambles on about how she wants to have nine children with Jose, and ceaselessly talks about how much she looks forward to moving with Jose to Rio. In fact the only regret that Holly mentions is that she wishes that she could have been a virgin for Jose. 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. &quot;If I were free to...,&quot; Holly continues, &quot;I would not pick Jose&quot; (82). The narrator, after hearing so much about Jose (more than he would like), begins to dislike Jose very much. He even stops saying Jose's name while he is speaking to Holly and simply refers to Jose as &quot;Him.&quot; Holly moves to a different subject and talks about giving up her horoscopes. She believes that this is an example of a good deed. She thinks that &quot;good things happen to those that are good&quot; (83). Later, on an outing, Holly observes ships sailing by and exclaims,&quot; one day, one of those ships would bring me back, me and my nine Brazillion brats&quot;(84). The narrator, tired of hearing about her &quot;brats&quot; and Jose, says &quot;Do shut up&quot;(85). He clearly felt left out, &quot;like a tug boat in drydock while she, glittery voyager of secure destination, steamed down the harbor with whistles whistling and confetti in the air&quot; (85).<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> == Notes ==<br /> *'''&quot;The now defunct newspaper, ''PM''&quot;''' (75) - A left-wing daily newspaper in New York City, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PM_%28newspaper%29 ''PM''] stood for &quot;Picture Magazine,&quot; 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''.<br /> <br /> *'''&quot;A Parke-Bernet Auction&quot;''' (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.<br /> <br /> *'''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 &quot;yellow journalism&quot;] and waas a leader of the liberal wing of the Democratic party from 1896 to 1935.<br /> <br /> *'''Modern Library''' (80) - A division of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_House Randolph House Publishers]. Founded in 1917, it identified itself as &quot;The Modern Library of the World's Best Books.&quot;<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''Waring mixer''' (80) - [http://www.waringproducts.com Waring] is a leading manufacturer of small appliances for the home, food service, and laboratory industries.<br /> <br /> *'''Hausfrau''' (80) - Translated from German to English, &quot;housewife.&quot;<br /> <br /> *'''Outré''' (81) - Highly unconventional; eccentric or bizarre.<br /> <br /> *'''Terrapin''' (81) - An [http://images.google.com/images?q=terrapin&amp;hl=en amphibious reptile turtle] that can live in the water and on land.<br /> <br /> *'''&quot;Nero-ish novelties&quot;''' (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].<br /> <br /> *'''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 &quot;dry fruit,&quot; is an edible fruit borne by some species of the genus [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diospyros ''Diospyros''].<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''Joss sticks''' (84) - Slender sticks of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incense incense] burned before a Chinese image, idol, or shrine.<br /> <br /> == Commentary ==<br /> Capote seems to have known someone in his life that he loved as much as the narrator loves Holly.&quot; 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.&quot; [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.&quot; &lt;i&gt;BaT's&lt;/i&gt; inspired women to pack their bags and seek their fortunes in New York all over the country.&quot;[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 &quot;learning&quot; that Holly has married Rusty. 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 &quot;party girl-about-town and exuberant phony&quot; [http://www.jp41.dial.pipex.com/R735.HTML (Prior)] that he knew becomes a mostly content stay-at-home-wife. <br /> <br /> 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 &quot;non-rat&quot; lover in her life. This is an easy statement to believe, as most early referances to Holly's love life make strong referances to prostitution. Taking men to the powder room and coming out with money, for example. She labels all of her past lovers &quot;rats&quot;, but she forces herself to see an allure in them. &quot;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.&quot; [http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bcash/criticalanalysis.html (Cash)]<br /> <br /> This stage of the story is one of the narrator's last chances to tell Holly how he really feels. So why dosen'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. Though his &quot;plan&quot; 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, &quot;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&quot; (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. Pugh writes, &quot;...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.&quot; Dependig 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. <br /> <br /> Regardless of her true intentions, this section ends with the narrator giving a wonderful metaphore.&quot; So the days, the last days, blow about in memory...all alike as leaves...&quot;(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 like. The narrator feels the same way about his final days with Holly. He can tell little difference between them, and he spent most of the time with her worrying about the time that she would be away from him. Also like falling leaves, these memories seemed to blow away, unable to be caught to hold on to as a keepsake.<br /> <br /> == Study Questions ==<br /> #Who is it that the narrator believes Holly has married?<br /> #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 &quot;were under the wheels of the train&quot;?<br /> #Who turns out to be the woman that has gotten married?<br /> #What is Dr. Goldman's explanation for Holly's fit?<br /> #What is the real reason for Holly's fit?<br /> #Whose name replaces Mag Wildwood's on Holly's mailbox?<br /> #Holly mentions something of importance to the narrator, while she is talking about her feelings for Jose. What is it?<br /> #Holly says that she would rather have cancer than a what?<br /> #In your opinion, how does Capote relate to the narrator in real life as far as his relationship with Holly?<br /> #What name does Holly give the narrator after her brother dies?<br /> #What kind of boat does the narrator relate himself to? What kind of boat does he picture Holly as?<br /> #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?<br /> <br /> == External Resources ==<br /> *Cash, Matthew. [http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bcash/criticalanalysis.html A Travelin' Through the Pastures of the Sky: A Critical Analysis of &lt;i&gt;Breakfast at Tiffany's&lt;/i&gt;]. 1996.<br /> <br /> == Works Cited ==<br /> *Prior, Lily. &quot;''Breakfast At Tiffany's'' Review.&quot;<br /> 18 March 2006.&lt;http://www.jp41.dial.pipex.com/R735.HTML&gt;<br /> <br /> *Kimbofo. &quot;''At Breakfast Tiffany's'' Reviews.&quot;<br /> ''Reading Matters''. 17 January 2006. 18 March 2006.<br /> &lt;http://kimbofo.typepad.com/readingmatters/2006/01/breakfast_at_ti.html&gt;<br /> <br /> *Pugh, Tison.: Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's.<br /> Explicator (Helen Dwight Reid Educational Foundation, Washington, DC) (61:1) [Fall 2002] , p.51-53.<br /> <br /> *Capote, Truman. ''Breakfast At Tiffany's''. New York: Random House, Inc, 1958.<br /> ----<br /> [[Breakfast at Tiffany's]]</div>

Rscot899 https://litwiki.org/index.php?title=Breakfast_at_Tiffany%27s_Section_8&diff=6156 2006-03-21T15:33:46Z

<p>Rscot899: </p> <hr /> <div>== Summary ==<br /> Section eight of Truman Capote's &lt;i&gt;BaT&lt;/i&gt; begins with the title to a shocking newspaper clipping. It reads, &quot;Trawler marries fourth&quot; (74). The narrator reads this clip while riding the subway home from an unsuccessful job interview. He immediately assumes that Rusty Trawler, a playboy that the narrator has come to loath, has taken Holly to be his fourth wife. His first wish after reading this portion of the article is to be underneath the wheels of the train. He justifies his wish by explaining the recent comings and goings in his life. His &quot;mean reds,&quot; as he puts it, come from many places at once. First of all, he admits that he has been recently fired from his job. The details of his dismissal are &quot;too complicated to recount&quot; (75). Secondly, he has reason to believe that his draft board is pursuing him in an effort to get him to join the military. He says, &quot;The idea of entering another form of disciplined life made me desperate&quot; (75). This causes his frustration to multiply because he cannot seem to find a job. In fact his unfruitful interview with the ''PM,'' a newspaper now closed down, is what he is returning from at the beginning of this section. Most obviously, he believes that Holly has married a man that he completely detests. His mounting jealousy causes him to admit that he does, in fact, love Holly. He also notes that his love for Holly is an identical love that he has experienced with an elderly colored cook and an entire family, probably friends, that he knew when he was younger. Upon reaching the station, he breaks down to his curiosity and buys a paper in order to read the entire article. Much to his surprise, Rusty did not marry Holly! He married Holly's roommate Mag Wildwood. His excitement that Holly is not married to Rusty causes his legs to shake so badly that he must ride a cab home instead of walking. <br /> <br /> The surprises seem to keep coming for the narrator when he finally reaches his apartment building. Madame Spanella is screaming in fear for the police to come. The narrator also notes quite a din coming from a higher floor. Madame Spanella raves, &quot;She is killing somebody! Somebody is killing her!&quot; (76). Instead of going for help the narrator bounds up the steps to the source of the noises which is, of course, Holly's door. After pounding the door with a fist, the noises subside, but no matter how many times he calls, Holly will not come to the door. He futilely throws himself at the door, trying to break in, until Jose Ybarra-Jager, Mag Wildwood's ex-fiance, arrives on the scene followed by a doctor. The narrator crossly notes that Jose opens the door to the apartment with his own key. Following the other two men inside, the narrator finds the apartment in disarray, the cat lapping up milk from the floor (the milk was spilled in the fray), and Holly standing, rigid on the bed. She is muttering an incoherent description of her brother, Fred. The doctor quickly begins to vocally soothe Holly as well as injecting her with a sedative. Jose continues asking the doctor (in bad English) if &quot;Her only sickness is grief?&quot; (78). Annoyed with Jose's questions, he forcefully ejects the other two men from the room. Jose, in anger, chases the snooping Madame Spanella out of the room, and he almost repeats this action with the narrator. In the end though, Jose invites the narrator to sit with him and have a drink which happens to be the only bottle that survived Holly's rampage. Through conversation, the narrator learns that all Jose is worried about is how people might think that he caused Holly to have such a terrible fit. Jose is a politician, and he is afraid of being defaced. Later, Jose finds a telegram on the floor that explains Holly's tantrum. The telegram is a message from Doc, Holly's husband, sent to inform Holly of her brother's death in the war. <br /> <br /> After that day, Holly seems to hibernate. She ceases to talk about her brother (a once common occurrence). She also stops calling the narrator Fred. She now re-dubs him &quot;Buster.&quot; He observes that Holly's hair gets darker and she puts on a lot of weight. On a positive note, Holly becomes quite a home maker. She purchases many classy items to decorate her apartment such as: tapestries, Gothic arm chairs, and several other ambiance producing items. Furthermore, the purchase of cookbooks leads to Holly's becoming a very good cook. Oddly enough though, she could only cook delicacies. When she tries to scramble eggs, she simply burns them. <br /> <br /> Jose, being a diplomat, works in Washington D.C. three days out of the week. While he is gone, the narrator and Holly meet to go on walks or to go out to dinner. During a conversation, the narrator learns that Holly is six weeks pregnant. She then rambles on about how she wants to have nine children with Jose, and ceaselessly talks about how much she looks forward to moving with Jose to Rio. In fact the only regret that Holly mentions is that she wishes that she could have been a virgin for Jose. 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. &quot;If I were free to...,&quot; Holly continues, &quot;I would not pick Jose&quot; (82). The narrator, after hearing so much about Jose (more than he would like), begins to dislike Jose very much. He even stops saying Jose's name while he is speaking to Holly and simply refers to Jose as &quot;Him.&quot; Holly moves to a different subject and talks about giving up her horoscopes. She believes that this is an example of a good deed. She thinks that &quot;good things happen to those that are good&quot; (83). Later, on an outing, Holly observes ships sailing by and exclaims,&quot; one day, one of those ships would bring me back, me and my nine Brazillion brats&quot;(84). The narrator, tired of hearing about her &quot;brats&quot; and Jose, says &quot;Do shut up&quot;(85). He clearly felt left out, &quot;like a tug boat in drydock while she, glittery voyager of secure destination, steamed down the harbor with whistles whistling and confetti in the air&quot; (85).<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> == Notes ==<br /> *'''&quot;The now defunct newspaper, ''PM''&quot;''' (75) - A left-wing daily newspaper in New York City, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PM_%28newspaper%29 ''PM''] stood for &quot;Picture Magazine,&quot; 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''.<br /> <br /> *'''&quot;A Parke-Bernet Auction&quot;''' (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.<br /> <br /> *'''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 &quot;yellow journalism&quot;] and waas a leader of the liberal wing of the Democratic party from 1896 to 1935.<br /> <br /> *'''Modern Library''' (80) - A division of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_House Randolph House Publishers]. Founded in 1917, it identified itself as &quot;The Modern Library of the World's Best Books.&quot;<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''Waring mixer''' (80) - [http://www.waringproducts.com Waring] is a leading manufacturer of small appliances for the home, food service, and laboratory industries.<br /> <br /> *'''Hausfrau''' (80) - Translated from German to English, &quot;housewife.&quot;<br /> <br /> *'''Outré''' (81) - Highly unconventional; eccentric or bizarre.<br /> <br /> *'''Terrapin''' (81) - An [http://images.google.com/images?q=terrapin&amp;hl=en amphibious reptile turtle] that can live in the water and on land.<br /> <br /> *'''&quot;Nero-ish novelties&quot;''' (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].<br /> <br /> *'''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 &quot;dry fruit,&quot; is an edible fruit borne by some species of the genus [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diospyros ''Diospyros''].<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''Joss sticks''' (84) - Slender sticks of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incense incense] burned before a Chinese image, idol, or shrine.<br /> <br /> == Commentary ==<br /> Capote seems to have known someone in his life that he loved as much as the narrator loves Holly.&quot; 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.&quot; [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.&quot; ''Breakfast at Tiffany's'' inspired women to pack their bags and seek their fortunes in New York all over the country.&quot;[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 &quot;learning&quot; that Holly has married Rusty. 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 &quot;party girl-about-town and exuberant phony&quot; [http://www.jp41.dial.pipex.com/R735.HTML (Prior)] that he knew becomes a mostly content stay-at-home-wife. <br /> <br /> 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 &quot;non-rat&quot; lover in her life. This is an easy statement to believe, as most early referances to Holly's love life make strong referances to prostitution. Taking men to the powder room and coming out with money, for example. She labels all of her past lovers &quot;rats&quot;, but she forces herself to see an allure in them. &quot;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.&quot; [http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bcash/criticalanalysis.html (Cash)]<br /> <br /> This stage of the story is one of the narrator's last chances to tell Holly how he really feels. So why dosen'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. Though his &quot;plan&quot; 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, &quot;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&quot; (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. Pugh writes, &quot;...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.&quot; Dependig 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. <br /> <br /> Regardless of her true intentions, this section ends with the narrator giving a wonderful metaphore.&quot; So the days, the last days, blow about in memory...all alike as leaves...&quot;(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 like. The narrator feels the same way about his final days with Holly. He can tell little difference between them, and he spent most of the time with her worrying about the time that she would be away from him. Also like falling leaves, these memories seemed to blow away, unable to be caught to hold on to as a keepsake.<br /> <br /> == Study Questions ==<br /> #Who is it that the narrator believes Holly has married?<br /> #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 &quot;were under the wheels of the train&quot;?<br /> #Who turns out to be the woman that has gotten married?<br /> #What is Dr. Goldman's explanation for Holly's fit?<br /> #What is the real reason for Holly's fit?<br /> #Whose name replaces Mag Wildwood's on Holly's mailbox?<br /> #Holly mentions something of importance to the narrator, while she is talking about her feelings for Jose. What is it?<br /> #Holly says that she would rather have cancer than a what?<br /> #In your opinion, how does Capote relate to the narrator in real life as far as his relationship with Holly?<br /> #What name does Holly give the narrator after her brother dies?<br /> #What kind of boat does the narrator relate himself to? What kind of boat does he picture Holly as?<br /> #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?<br /> <br /> == External Resources ==<br /> *Cash, Matthew. [http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bcash/criticalanalysis.html A Travelin' Through the Pastures of the Sky: A Critical Analysis of &lt;i&gt;Breakfast at Tiffany's&lt;/i&gt;]. 1996.<br /> <br /> == Works Cited ==<br /> *Prior, Lily. &quot;''Breakfast At Tiffany's'' Review.&quot;<br /> 18 March 2006.&lt;http://www.jp41.dial.pipex.com/R735.HTML&gt;<br /> <br /> *Kimbofo. &quot;''At Breakfast Tiffany's'' Reviews.&quot;<br /> ''Reading Matters''. 17 January 2006. 18 March 2006.<br /> &lt;http://kimbofo.typepad.com/readingmatters/2006/01/breakfast_at_ti.html&gt;<br /> <br /> *Pugh, Tison.: Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's.<br /> Explicator (Helen Dwight Reid Educational Foundation, Washington, DC) (61:1) [Fall 2002] , p.51-53.<br /> <br /> *Capote, Truman. ''Breakfast At Tiffany's''. New York: Random House, Inc, 1958.<br /> ----<br /> [[Breakfast at Tiffany's]]</div>

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<p>Rscot899: </p> <hr /> <div>== Summary ==<br /> Section eight of Truman Capote's &lt;i&gt;BaT&lt;/i&gt; begins with the title to a shocking newspaper clipping. It reads, &quot;Trawler marries fourth&quot; (74). The narrator reads this clip while riding the subway home from an unsuccessful job interview. He immediately assumes that Rusty Trawler, a playboy that the narrator has come to loath, has taken Holly to be his fourth wife. His first wish after reading this portion of the article is to be underneath the wheels of the train. He justifies his wish by explaining the recent comings and goings in his life. His &quot;mean reds,&quot; as he puts it, come from many places at once. First of all, he admits that he has been recently fired from his job. The details of his dismissal are &quot;too complicated to recount&quot; (75). Secondly, he has reason to believe that his draft board is pursuing him in an effort to get him to join the military. He says, &quot;The idea of entering another form of disciplined life made me desperate&quot; (75). This causes his frustration to multiply because he cannot seem to find a job. In fact his unfruitful interview with the ''PM,'' a newspaper now closed down, is what he is returning from at the beginning of this section. Most obviously, he believes that Holly has married a man that he completely detests. His mounting jealousy causes him to admit that he does, in fact, love Holly. He also notes that his love for Holly is an identical love that he has experienced with an elderly colored cook and an entire family, probably friends, that he knew when he was younger. Upon reaching the station, he breaks down to his curiosity and buys a paper in order to read the entire article. Much to his surprise, Rusty did not marry Holly! He married Holly's roommate Mag Wildwood. His excitement that Holly is not married to Rusty causes his legs to shake so badly that he must ride a cab home instead of walking. <br /> <br /> The surprises seem to keep coming for the narrator when he finally reaches his apartment building. Madame Spanella is screaming in fear for the police to come. The narrator also notes quite a din coming from a higher floor. Madame Spanella raves, &quot;She is killing somebody! Somebody is killing her!&quot; (76). Instead of going for help the narrator bounds up the steps to the source of the noises which is, of course, Holly's door. After pounding the door with a fist, the noises subside, but no matter how many times he calls, Holly will not come to the door. He futilely throws himself at the door, trying to break in, until Jose Ybarra-Jager, Mag Wildwood's ex-fiance, arrives on the scene followed by a doctor. The narrator crossly notes that Jose opens the door to the apartment with his own key. Following the other two men inside, the narrator finds the apartment in disarray, the cat lapping up milk from the floor (the milk was spilled in the fray), and Holly standing, rigid on the bed. She is muttering an incoherent description of her brother, Fred. The doctor quickly begins to vocally soothe Holly as well as injecting her with a sedative. Jose continues asking the doctor (in bad English) if &quot;Her only sickness is grief?&quot; (78). Annoyed with Jose's questions, he forcefully ejects the other two men from the room. Jose, in anger, chases the snooping Madame Spanella out of the room, and he almost repeats this action with the narrator. In the end though, Jose invites the narrator to sit with him and have a drink which happens to be the only bottle that survived Holly's rampage. Through conversation, the narrator learns that all Jose is worried about is how people might think that he caused Holly to have such a terrible fit. Jose is a politician, and he is afraid of being defaced. Later, Jose finds a telegram on the floor that explains Holly's tantrum. The telegram is a message from Doc, Holly's husband, sent to inform Holly of her brother's death in the war. <br /> <br /> After that day, Holly seems to hibernate. She ceases to talk about her brother (a once common occurrence). She also stops calling the narrator Fred. She now re-dubs him &quot;Buster.&quot; He observes that Holly's hair gets darker and she puts on a lot of weight. On a positive note, Holly becomes quite a home maker. She purchases many classy items to decorate her apartment such as: tapestries, Gothic arm chairs, and several other ambiance producing items. Furthermore, the purchase of cookbooks leads to Holly's becoming a very good cook. Oddly enough though, she could only cook delicacies. When she tries to scramble eggs, she simply burns them. <br /> <br /> Jose, being a diplomat, works in Washington D.C. three days out of the week. While he is gone, the narrator and Holly meet to go on walks or to go out to dinner. During a conversation, the narrator learns that Holly is six weeks pregnant. She then rambles on about how she wants to have nine children with Jose, and ceaselessly talks about how much she looks forward to moving with Jose to Rio. In fact the only regret that Holly mentions is that she wishes that she could have been a virgin for Jose. 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. &quot;If I were free to...,&quot; Holly continues, &quot;I would not pick Jose&quot; (82). The narrator, after hearing so much about Jose (more than he would like), begins to dislike Jose very much. He even stops saying Jose's name while he is speaking to Holly and simply refers to Jose as &quot;Him.&quot; Holly moves to a different subject and talks about giving up her horoscopes. She believes that this is an example of a good deed. She thinks that &quot;good things happen to those that are good&quot; (83). Later, on an outing, Holly observes ships sailing by and exclaims,&quot; one day, one of those ships would bring me back, me and my nine Brazillion brats&quot;(84). The narrator, tired of hearing about her &quot;brats&quot; and Jose, says &quot;Do shut up&quot;(85). He clearly felt left out, &quot;like a tug boat in drydock while she, glittery voyager of secure destination, steamed down the harbor with whistles whistling and confetti in the air&quot; (85).<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> == Notes ==<br /> *'''&quot;The now defunct newspaper, ''PM''&quot;''' (75) - A left-wing daily newspaper in New York City, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PM_%28newspaper%29 ''PM''] stood for &quot;Picture Magazine,&quot; 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''.<br /> <br /> *'''&quot;A Parke-Bernet Auction&quot;''' (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.<br /> <br /> *'''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 &quot;yellow journalism&quot;] and waas a leader of the liberal wing of the Democratic party from 1896 to 1935.<br /> <br /> *'''Modern Library''' (80) - A division of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_House Randolph House Publishers]. Founded in 1917, it identified itself as &quot;The Modern Library of the World's Best Books.&quot;<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''Waring mixer''' (80) - [http://www.waringproducts.com Waring] is a leading manufacturer of small appliances for the home, food service, and laboratory industries.<br /> <br /> *'''Hausfrau''' (80) - Translated from German to English, &quot;housewife.&quot;<br /> <br /> *'''Outré''' (81) - Highly unconventional; eccentric or bizarre.<br /> <br /> *'''Terrapin''' (81) - An [http://images.google.com/images?q=terrapin&amp;hl=en amphibious reptile turtle] that can live in the water and on land.<br /> <br /> *'''&quot;Nero-ish novelties&quot;''' (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].<br /> <br /> *'''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 &quot;dry fruit,&quot; is an edible fruit borne by some species of the genus [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diospyros ''Diospyros''].<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''Joss sticks''' (84) - Slender sticks of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incense incense] burned before a Chinese image, idol, or shrine.<br /> <br /> == Commentary ==<br /> Capote seems to have known someone in his life that he loved as much as the narrator loves Holly.&quot; 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.&quot; [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.&quot;''Breakfast at Tiffany's'' inspired women to pack their bags and seek their fortunes in New York all over the country.&quot;[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 &quot;learning&quot; that Holly has married Rusty. 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 &quot;party girl-about-town and exuberant phony&quot; [http://www.jp41.dial.pipex.com/R735.HTML (Prior)] that he knew becomes a mostly content stay-at-home-wife. <br /> <br /> 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 &quot;non-rat&quot; lover in her life. This is an easy statement to believe, as most early referances to Holly's love life make strong referances to prostitution. Taking men to the powder room and coming out with money, for example. She labels all of her past lovers &quot;rats&quot;, but she forces herself to see an allure in them. &quot;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.&quot; [http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bcash/criticalanalysis.html (Cash)]<br /> <br /> This stage of the story is one of the narrator's last chances to tell Holly how he really feels. So why dosen'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. Though his &quot;plan&quot; 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, &quot;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&quot; (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. Pugh writes, &quot;...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.&quot; Dependig 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. <br /> <br /> Regardless of her true intentions, this section ends with the narrator giving a wonderful metaphore.&quot; So the days, the last days, blow about in memory...all alike as leaves...&quot;(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 like. The narrator feels the same way about his final days with Holly. He can tell little difference between them, and he spent most of the time with her worrying about the time that she would be away from him. Also like falling leaves, these memories seemed to blow away, unable to be caught to hold on to as a keepsake.<br /> <br /> == Study Questions ==<br /> #Who is it that the narrator believes Holly has married?<br /> #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 &quot;were under the wheels of the train&quot;?<br /> #Who turns out to be the woman that has gotten married?<br /> #What is Dr. Goldman's explanation for Holly's fit?<br /> #What is the real reason for Holly's fit?<br /> #Whose name replaces Mag Wildwood's on Holly's mailbox?<br /> #Holly mentions something of importance to the narrator, while she is talking about her feelings for Jose. What is it?<br /> #Holly says that she would rather have cancer than a what?<br /> #In your opinion, how does Capote relate to the narrator in real life as far as his relationship with Holly?<br /> #What name does Holly give the narrator after her brother dies?<br /> #What kind of boat does the narrator relate himself to? What kind of boat does he picture Holly as?<br /> #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?<br /> <br /> == External Resources ==<br /> *Cash, Matthew. [http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bcash/criticalanalysis.html A Travelin' Through the Pastures of the Sky: A Critical Analysis of &lt;i&gt;Breakfast at Tiffany's&lt;/i&gt;]. 1996.<br /> <br /> == Works Cited ==<br /> *Prior, Lily. &quot;''Breakfast At Tiffany's'' Review.&quot;<br /> 18 March 2006.&lt;http://www.jp41.dial.pipex.com/R735.HTML&gt;<br /> <br /> *Kimbofo. &quot;''At Breakfast Tiffany's'' Reviews.&quot;<br /> ''Reading Matters''. 17 January 2006. 18 March 2006.<br /> &lt;http://kimbofo.typepad.com/readingmatters/2006/01/breakfast_at_ti.html&gt;<br /> <br /> *Pugh, Tison.: Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's.<br /> Explicator (Helen Dwight Reid Educational Foundation, Washington, DC) (61:1) [Fall 2002] , p.51-53.<br /> <br /> *Capote, Truman. ''Breakfast At Tiffany's''. New York: Random House, Inc, 1958.<br /> ----<br /> [[Breakfast at Tiffany's]]</div>

Rscot899 https://litwiki.org/index.php?title=Breakfast_at_Tiffany%27s_Section_8&diff=6142 2006-03-21T15:18:47Z

<p>Rscot899: </p> <hr /> <div>== Summary ==<br /> Section eight of Truman Capote's &lt;i&gt;BaT&lt;/i&gt; begins with the title to a shocking newspaper clipping. It reads, &quot;Trawler marries fourth&quot; (74). The narrator reads this clip while riding the subway home from an unsuccessful job interview. He immediately assumes that Rusty Trawler, a playboy that the narrator has come to loath, has taken Holly to be his fourth wife. His first wish after reading this portion of the article is to be underneath the wheels of the train. He justifies his wish by explaining the recent comings and goings in his life. His &quot;mean reds,&quot; as he puts it, come from many places at once. First of all, he admits that he has been recently fired from his job. The details of his dismissal are &quot;too complicated to recount&quot; (75). Secondly, he has reason to believe that his draft board is pursuing him in an effort to get him to join the military. He says, &quot;The idea of entering another form of disciplined life made me desperate&quot; (75). This causes his frustration to multiply because he cannot seem to find a job. In fact his unfruitful interview with the ''PM,'' a newspaper now closed down, is what he is returning from at the beginning of this section. Most obviously, he believes that Holly has married a man that he completely detests. His mounting jealousy causes him to admit that he does, in fact, love Holly. He also notes that his love for Holly is an identical love that he has experienced with an elderly colored cook and an entire family, probably friends, that he knew when he was younger. Upon reaching the station, he breaks down to his curiosity and buys a paper in order to read the entire article. Much to his surprise, Rusty did not marry Holly! He married Holly's roommate Mag Wildwood. His excitement that Holly is not married to Rusty causes his legs to shake so badly that he must ride a cab home instead of walking. <br /> <br /> The surprises seem to keep coming for the narrator when he finally reaches his apartment building. Madame Spanella is screaming in fear for the police to come. The narrator also notes quite a din coming from a higher floor. Madame Spanella raves, &quot;She is killing somebody! Somebody is killing her!&quot; (76). Instead of going for help the narrator bounds up the steps to the source of the noises which is, of course, Holly's door. After pounding the door with a fist, the noises subside, but no matter how many times he calls, Holly will not come to the door. He futilely throws himself at the door, trying to break in, until Jose Ybarra-Jager, Mag Wildwood's ex-fiance, arrives on the scene followed by a doctor. The narrator crossly notes that Jose opens the door to the apartment with his own key. Following the other two men inside, the narrator finds the apartment in disarray, the cat lapping up milk from the floor (the milk was spilled in the fray), and Holly standing, rigid on the bed. She is muttering an incoherent description of her brother, Fred. The doctor quickly begins to vocally soothe Holly as well as injecting her with a sedative. Jose continues asking the doctor (in bad English) if &quot;Her only sickness is grief?&quot; (78). Annoyed with Jose's questions, he forcefully ejects the other two men from the room. Jose, in anger, chases the snooping Madame Spanella out of the room, and he almost repeats this action with the narrator. In the end though, Jose invites the narrator to sit with him and have a drink which happens to be the only bottle that survived Holly's rampage. Through conversation, the narrator learns that all Jose is worried about is how people might think that he caused Holly to have such a terrible fit. Jose is a politician, and he is afraid of being defaced. Later, Jose finds a telegram on the floor that explains Holly's tantrum. The telegram is a message from Doc, Holly's husband, sent to inform Holly of her brother's death in the war. <br /> <br /> After that day, Holly seems to hibernate. She ceases to talk about her brother (a once common occurrence). She also stops calling the narrator Fred. She now re-dubs him &quot;Buster.&quot; He observes that Holly's hair gets darker and she puts on a lot of weight. On a positive note, Holly becomes quite a home maker. She purchases many classy items to decorate her apartment such as: tapestries, Gothic arm chairs, and several other ambiance producing items. Furthermore, the purchase of cookbooks leads to Holly's becoming a very good cook. Oddly enough though, she could only cook delicacies. When she tries to scramble eggs, she simply burns them. <br /> <br /> Jose, being a diplomat, works in Washington D.C. three days out of the week. While he is gone, the narrator and Holly meet to go on walks or to go out to dinner. During a conversation, the narrator learns that Holly is six weeks pregnant. She then rambles on about how she wants to have nine children with Jose, and ceaselessly talks about how much she looks forward to moving with Jose to Rio. In fact the only regret that Holly mentions is that she wishes that she could have been a virgin for Jose. 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. &quot;If I were free to...,&quot; Holly continues, &quot;I would not pick Jose&quot; (82). The narrator, after hearing so much about Jose (more than he would like), begins to dislike Jose very much. He even stops saying Jose's name while he is speaking to Holly and simply refers to Jose as &quot;Him.&quot; Holly moves to a different subject and talks about giving up her horoscopes. She believes that this is an example of a good deed. She thinks that &quot;good things happen to those that are good&quot; (83). Later, on an outing, Holly observes ships sailing by and exclaims,&quot; one day, one of those ships would bring me back, me and my nine Brazillion brats&quot;(84). The narrator, tired of hearing about her &quot;brats&quot; and Jose, says &quot;Do shut up&quot;(85). He clearly felt left out, &quot;like a tug boat in drydock while she, glittery voyager of secure destination, steamed down the harbor with whistles whistling and confetti in the air&quot; (85).<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> == Notes ==<br /> *'''&quot;The now defunct newspaper, ''PM''&quot;''' (75) - A left-wing daily newspaper in New York City, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PM_%28newspaper%29 ''PM''] stood for &quot;Picture Magazine,&quot; 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''.<br /> <br /> *'''&quot;A Parke-Bernet Auction&quot;''' (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.<br /> <br /> *'''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 &quot;yellow journalism&quot;] and waas a leader of the liberal wing of the Democratic party from 1896 to 1935.<br /> <br /> *'''Modern Library''' (80) - A division of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_House Randolph House Publishers]. Founded in 1917, it identified itself as &quot;The Modern Library of the World's Best Books.&quot;<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''Waring mixer''' (80) - [http://www.waringproducts.com Waring] is a leading manufacturer of small appliances for the home, food service, and laboratory industries.<br /> <br /> *'''Hausfrau''' (80) - Translated from German to English, &quot;housewife.&quot;<br /> <br /> *'''Outré''' (81) - Highly unconventional; eccentric or bizarre.<br /> <br /> *'''Terrapin''' (81) - An [http://images.google.com/images?q=terrapin&amp;hl=en amphibious reptile turtle] that can live in the water and on land.<br /> <br /> *'''&quot;Nero-ish novelties&quot;''' (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].<br /> <br /> *'''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 &quot;dry fruit,&quot; is an edible fruit borne by some species of the genus [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diospyros ''Diospyros''].<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''Joss sticks''' (84) - Slender sticks of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incense incense] burned before a Chinese image, idol, or shrine.<br /> <br /> == Commentary ==<br /> Capote seems to have known someone in his life that he loved as much as the narrator loves Holly.&quot; He describes this woman in such a way that you get the sense he has moulded her on someone that intrigued him, that held some allure or had an aura of mysticism that left a deep impression.&quot;(Kimbofo) On the other hand, he may have intended to spark a female movement of freedom to do what they want.&quot;''Breakfast at Tiffany's'' inspired women to pack their bags and seek their fortunes in New York all over the country.&quot;(Cash)If this was his goal, then he certainly achieved it! In any case, he portrays very well his anguish upon &quot;learning&quot; that Holly has married Rusty. 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 &quot;party girl-about-town and exuberant phony&quot;(Prior) that he knew becomes a mostly content stay-at-home-wife. <br /> <br /> 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 &quot;non-rat&quot; lover in her life. This is an easy statement to believe, as most early referances to Holly's love life make strong referances to prostitution. Taking men to the powder room and coming out with money, for example. She labels all of her past lovers &quot;rats&quot;, but she forces herself to see an allure in them. &quot;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.&quot;(Cash)<br /> <br /> This stage of the story is one of the narrator's last chances to tell Holly how he really feels. So why dosen'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. Though his &quot;plan&quot; 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, &quot;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&quot; (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. Pugh writes, &quot;...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.&quot; Dependig 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. <br /> <br /> Regardless of her true intentions, this section ends with the narrator giving a wonderful metaphore.&quot; So the days, the last days, blow about in memory...all alike as leaves...&quot;(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 like. The narrator feels the same way about his final days with Holly. He can tell little difference between them, and he spent most of the time with her worrying about the time that she would be away from him. Also like falling leaves, these memories seemed to blow away, unable to be caught to hold on to as a keepsake.<br /> <br /> == Study Questions ==<br /> #Who is it that the narrator believes Holly has married?<br /> #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 &quot;were under the wheels of the train&quot;?<br /> #Who turns out to be the woman that has gotten married?<br /> #What is Dr. Goldman's explanation for Holly's fit?<br /> #What is the real reason for Holly's fit?<br /> #Whose name replaces Mag Wildwood's on Holly's mailbox?<br /> #Holly mentions something of importance to the narrator, while she is talking about her feelings for Jose. What is it?<br /> #Holly says that she would rather have cancer than a what?<br /> #In your opinion, how does Capote relate to the narrator in real life as far as his relationship with Holly?<br /> #What name does Holly give the narrator after her brother dies?<br /> #What kind of boat does the narrator relate himself to? What kind of boat does he picture Holly as?<br /> #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?<br /> <br /> == External Resources ==<br /> *Cash, Matthew. [http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bcash/criticalanalysis.html A Travelin' Through the Pastures of the Sky: A Critical Analysis of &lt;i&gt;Breakfast at Tiffany's&lt;/i&gt;]. 1996.<br /> <br /> == Works Cited ==<br /> *Prior, Lily. &quot;''Breakfast At Tiffany's'' Review.&quot;<br /> 18 March 2006.&lt;http://www.jp41.dial.pipex.com/R735.HTML&gt;<br /> <br /> *Kimbofo. &quot;''At Breakfast Tiffany's'' Reviews.&quot;<br /> ''Reading Matters''. 17 January 2006. 18 March 2006.<br /> &lt;http://kimbofo.typepad.com/readingmatters/2006/01/breakfast_at_ti.html&gt;<br /> <br /> *Pugh, Tison.: Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's.<br /> Explicator (Helen Dwight Reid Educational Foundation, Washington, DC) (61:1) [Fall 2002] , p.51-53.<br /> <br /> *Capote, Truman. ''Breakfast At Tiffany's''. New York: Random House, Inc, 1958.<br /> ----<br /> [[Breakfast at Tiffany's]]</div>

Rscot899 https://litwiki.org/index.php?title=Breakfast_at_Tiffany%27s_Section_8&diff=6138 2006-03-21T15:15:17Z

<p>Rscot899: </p> <hr /> <div>== Summary ==<br /> Section eight of Truman Capote's &lt;i&gt;BaT&lt;/i&gt; begins with the title to a shocking newspaper clipping. It reads, &quot;Trawler marries fourth&quot; (74). The narrator reads this clip while riding the subway home from an unsuccessful job interview. He immediately assumes that Rusty Trawler, a playboy that the narrator has come to loath, has taken Holly to be his fourth wife. His first wish after reading this portion of the article is to be underneath the wheels of the train. He justifies his wish by explaining the recent comings and goings in his life. His &quot;mean reds,&quot; as he puts it, come from many places at once. First of all, he admits that he has been recently fired from his job. The details of his dismissal are &quot;too complicated to recount&quot; (75). Secondly, he has reason to believe that his draft board is pursuing him in an effort to get him to join the military. He says, &quot;The idea of entering another form of disciplined life made me desperate&quot; (75). This causes his frustration to multiply because he cannot seem to find a job. In fact his unfruitful interview with the ''PM,'' a newspaper now closed down, is what he is returning from at the beginning of this section. Most obviously, he believes that Holly has married a man that he completely detests. His mounting jealousy causes him to admit that he does, in fact, love Holly. He also notes that his love for Holly is an identical love that he has experienced with an elderly colored cook and an entire family, probably friends, that he knew when he was younger. Upon reaching the station, he breaks down to his curiosity and buys a paper in order to read the entire article. Much to his surprise, Rusty did not marry Holly! He married Holly's roommate Mag Wildwood. His excitement that Holly is not married to Rusty causes his legs to shake so badly that he must ride a cab home instead of walking. <br /> <br /> The surprises seem to keep coming for the narrator when he finally reaches his apartment building. Madame Spanella is screaming in fear for the police to come. The narrator also notes quite a din coming from a higher floor. Madame Spanella raves, &quot;She is killing somebody! Somebody is killing her!&quot; (76). Instead of going for help the narrator bounds up the steps to the source of the noises which is, of course, Holly's door. After pounding the door with a fist, the noises subside, but no matter how many times he calls, Holly will not come to the door. He futilely throws himself at the door, trying to break in, until Jose Ybarra-Jager, Mag Wildwood's ex-fiance, arrives on the scene followed by a doctor. The narrator crossly notes that Jose opens the door to the apartment with his own key. Following the other two men inside, the narrator finds the apartment in disarray, the cat lapping up milk from the floor (the milk was spilled in the fray), and Holly standing, rigid on the bed. She is muttering an incoherent description of her brother, Fred. The doctor quickly begins to vocally soothe Holly as well as injecting her with a sedative. Jose continues asking the doctor (in bad English) if &quot;Her only sickness is grief?&quot; (78). Annoyed with Jose's questions, he forcefully ejects the other two men from the room. Jose, in anger, chases the snooping Madame Spanella out of the room, and he almost repeats this action with the narrator. In the end though, Jose invites the narrator to sit with him and have a drink which happens to be the only bottle that survived Holly's rampage. Through conversation, the narrator learns that all Jose is worried about is how people might think that he caused Holly to have such a terrible fit. Jose is a politician, and he is afraid of being defaced. Later, Jose finds a telegram on the floor that explains Holly's tantrum. The telegram is a message from Doc, Holly's husband, sent to inform Holly of her brother's death in the war. <br /> <br /> After that day, Holly seems to hibernate. She ceases to talk about her brother (a once common occurrence). She also stops calling the narrator Fred. She now re-dubs him &quot;Buster.&quot; He observes that Holly's hair gets darker and she puts on a lot of weight. On a positive note, Holly becomes quite a home maker. She purchases many classy items to decorate her apartment such as: tapestries, Gothic arm chairs, and several other ambiance producing items. Furthermore, the purchase of cookbooks leads to Holly's becoming a very good cook. Oddly enough though, she could only cook delicacies. When she tries to scramble eggs, she simply burns them. <br /> <br /> Jose, being a diplomat, works in Washington D.C. three days out of the week. While he is gone, the narrator and Holly meet to go on walks or to go out to dinner. During a conversation, the narrator learns that Holly is six weeks pregnant. She then rambles on about how she wants to have nine children with Jose, and ceaselessly talks about how much she looks forward to moving with Jose to Rio. In fact the only regret that Holly mentions is that she wishes that she could have been a virgin for Jose. 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. &quot;If I were free to,...&quot; Holly continues, &quot; I would not pick Jose&quot; (82). The narrator, after hearing so much about Jose (more than he would like), begins to dislike Jose very much. He even stops saying Jose's name while he is speaking to Holly and simply refers to Jose as &quot;Him.&quot; Holly moves to a different subject and talks about giving up her horoscopes. She believes that this is an example of a good deed. She thinks that &quot; good things happen to those that are good&quot; (83). Later, on an outing, Holly observes ships sailing by and exclaims,&quot; one day, one of those ships would bring me back, me and my nine Brazillion brats&quot;(84). The narrator, tired of hearing about her &quot;brats&quot; and Jose, says &quot;Do shut up&quot;(85). He clearly felt left out, &quot;like a tug boat in drydock while she, glittery voyager of secure destination, steamed down the harbor with whistles whistling and confetti in the air&quot; (85).<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> == Notes ==<br /> *'''&quot;The now defunct newspaper, ''PM''&quot;''' (75) - A left-wing daily newspaper in New York City, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PM_%28newspaper%29 ''PM''] stood for &quot;Picture Magazine,&quot; 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''.<br /> <br /> *'''&quot;A Parke-Bernet Auction&quot;''' (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.<br /> <br /> *'''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 &quot;yellow journalism&quot;] and waas a leader of the liberal wing of the Democratic party from 1896 to 1935.<br /> <br /> *'''Modern Library''' (80) - A division of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_House Randolph House Publishers]. Founded in 1917, it identified itself as &quot;The Modern Library of the World's Best Books.&quot;<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''Waring mixer''' (80) - [http://www.waringproducts.com Waring] is a leading manufacturer of small appliances for the home, food service, and laboratory industries.<br /> <br /> *'''Hausfrau''' (80) - Translated from German to English, &quot;housewife.&quot;<br /> <br /> *'''Outré''' (81) - Highly unconventional; eccentric or bizarre.<br /> <br /> *'''Terrapin''' (81) - An [http://images.google.com/images?q=terrapin&amp;hl=en amphibious reptile turtle] that can live in the water and on land.<br /> <br /> *'''&quot;Nero-ish novelties&quot;''' (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].<br /> <br /> *'''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 &quot;dry fruit,&quot; is an edible fruit borne by some species of the genus [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diospyros ''Diospyros''].<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''Joss sticks''' (84) - Slender sticks of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incense incense] burned before a Chinese image, idol, or shrine.<br /> <br /> == Commentary ==<br /> Capote seems to have known someone in his life that he loved as much as the narrator loves Holly.&quot; He describes this woman in such a way that you get the sense he has moulded her on someone that intrigued him, that held some allure or had an aura of mysticism that left a deep impression.&quot;(Kimbofo) On the other hand, he may have intended to spark a female movement of freedom to do what they want.&quot;''Breakfast at Tiffany's'' inspired women to pack their bags and seek their fortunes in New York all over the country.&quot;(Cash)If this was his goal, then he certainly achieved it! In any case, he portrays very well his anguish upon &quot;learning&quot; that Holly has married Rusty. 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 &quot;party girl-about-town and exuberant phony&quot;(Prior) that he knew becomes a mostly content stay-at-home-wife. <br /> <br /> 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 &quot;non-rat&quot; lover in her life. This is an easy statement to believe, as most early referances to Holly's love life make strong referances to prostitution. Taking men to the powder room and coming out with money, for example. She labels all of her past lovers &quot;rats&quot;, but she forces herself to see an allure in them. &quot;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.&quot;(Cash)<br /> <br /> This stage of the story is one of the narrator's last chances to tell Holly how he really feels. So why dosen'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. Though his &quot;plan&quot; 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, &quot;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&quot; (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. Pugh writes, &quot;...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.&quot; Dependig 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. <br /> <br /> Regardless of her true intentions, this section ends with the narrator giving a wonderful metaphore.&quot; So the days, the last days, blow about in memory...all alike as leaves...&quot;(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 like. The narrator feels the same way about his final days with Holly. He can tell little difference between them, and he spent most of the time with her worrying about the time that she would be away from him. Also like falling leaves, these memories seemed to blow away, unable to be caught to hold on to as a keepsake.<br /> <br /> == Study Questions ==<br /> #Who is it that the narrator believes Holly has married?<br /> #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 &quot;were under the wheels of the train&quot;?<br /> #Who turns out to be the woman that has gotten married?<br /> #What is Dr. Goldman's explanation for Holly's fit?<br /> #What is the real reason for Holly's fit?<br /> #Whose name replaces Mag Wildwood's on Holly's mailbox?<br /> #Holly mentions something of importance to the narrator, while she is talking about her feelings for Jose. What is it?<br /> #Holly says that she would rather have cancer than a what?<br /> #In your opinion, how does Capote relate to the narrator in real life as far as his relationship with Holly?<br /> #What name does Holly give the narrator after her brother dies?<br /> #What kind of boat does the narrator relate himself to? What kind of boat does he picture Holly as?<br /> #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?<br /> <br /> == External Resources ==<br /> *Cash, Matthew. [http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bcash/criticalanalysis.html A Travelin' Through the Pastures of the Sky: A Critical Analysis of &lt;i&gt;Breakfast at Tiffany's&lt;/i&gt;]. 1996.<br /> <br /> == Works Cited ==<br /> *Prior, Lily. &quot;''Breakfast At Tiffany's'' Review.&quot;<br /> 18 March 2006.&lt;http://www.jp41.dial.pipex.com/R735.HTML&gt;<br /> <br /> *Kimbofo. &quot;''At Breakfast Tiffany's'' Reviews.&quot;<br /> ''Reading Matters''. 17 January 2006. 18 March 2006.<br /> &lt;http://kimbofo.typepad.com/readingmatters/2006/01/breakfast_at_ti.html&gt;<br /> <br /> *Pugh, Tison.: Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's.<br /> Explicator (Helen Dwight Reid Educational Foundation, Washington, DC) (61:1) [Fall 2002] , p.51-53.<br /> <br /> *Capote, Truman. ''Breakfast At Tiffany's''. New York: Random House, Inc, 1958.<br /> ----<br /> [[Breakfast at Tiffany's]]</div>

Rscot899 https://litwiki.org/index.php?title=Breakfast_at_Tiffany%27s_Section_8&diff=6136 2006-03-21T15:14:29Z

<p>Rscot899: </p> <hr /> <div>== Summary ==<br /> Section eight of Truman Capote's &lt;i&gt;BaT&lt;/i&gt; begins with the title to a shocking newspaper clipping. It reads, &quot;Trawler marries fourth&quot; (74). The narrator reads this clip while riding the subway home from an unsuccessful job interview. He immediately assumes that Rusty Trawler, a playboy that the narrator has come to loath, has taken Holly to be his fourth wife. His first wish after reading this portion of the article is to be underneath the wheels of the train. He justifies his wish by explaining the recent comings and goings in his life. His &quot;mean reds,&quot; as he puts it, come from many places at once. First of all, he admits that he has been recently fired from his job. The details of his dismissal are &quot;too complicated to recount&quot; (75). Secondly, he has reason to believe that his draft board is pursuing him in an effort to get him to join the military. He says, &quot;The idea of entering another form of disciplined life made me desperate&quot; (75). This causes his frustration to multiply because he cannot seem to find a job. In fact his unfruitful interview with the ''PM,'' a newspaper now closed down, is what he is returning from at the beginning of this section. Most obviously, he believes that Holly has married a man that he completely detests. His mounting jealousy causes him to admit that he does, in fact, love Holly. He also notes that his love for Holly is an identical love that he has experienced with an elderly colored cook and an entire family, probably friends, that he knew when he was younger. Upon reaching the station, he breaks down to his curiosity and buys a paper in order to read the entire article. Much to his surprise, Rusty did not marry Holly! He married Holly's roommate Mag Wildwood. His excitement that Holly is not married to Rusty causes his legs to shake so badly that he must ride a cab home instead of walking. <br /> <br /> The surprises seem to keep coming for the narrator when he finally reaches his apartment building. Madame Spanella is screaming in fear for the police to come. The narrator also notes quite a din coming from a higher floor. Madame Spanella raves, &quot;She is killing somebody! Somebody is killing her!&quot; (76). Instead of going for help the narrator bounds up the steps to the source of the noises which is, of course, Holly's door. After pounding the door with a fist, the noises subside, but no matter how many times he calls, Holly will not come to the door. He futilely throws himself at the door, trying to break in, until Jose Ybarra-Jager, Mag Wildwood's ex-fiance, arrives on the scene followed by a doctor. The narrator crossly notes that Jose opens the door to the apartment with his own key. Following the other two men inside, the narrator finds the apartment in disarray, the cat lapping up milk from the floor (the milk was spilled in the fray), and Holly standing, rigid on the bed. She is muttering an incoherent description of her brother, Fred. The doctor quickly begins to vocally soothe Holly as well as injecting her with a sedative. Jose continues asking the doctor (in bad English) if &quot;Her only sickness is grief?&quot; (78). Annoyed with Jose's questions, he forcefully ejects the other two men from the room. Jose, in anger, chases the snooping Madame Spanella out of the room, and he almost repeats this action with the narrator. In the end though, Jose invites the narrator to sit with him and have a drink which happens to be the only bottle that survived Holly's rampage. Through conversation, the narrator learns that all Jose is worried about is how people might think that he caused Holly to have such a terrible fit. Jose is a politician, and he is afraid of being defaced. Later, Jose finds a telegram on the floor that explains Holly's tantrum. The telegram is a message from Doc, Holly's husband, sent to inform Holly of her brother's death in the war. <br /> <br /> After that day, Holly seems to hibernate. She ceases to talk about her brother (a once common occurrence). She also stops calling the narrator Fred. She now re-dubs him &quot;Buster.&quot; He observes that Holly's hair gets darker and she puts on a lot of weight. On a positive note, Holly becomes quite a home maker. She purchases many classy items to decorate her apartment such as: tapestries, Gothic arm chairs, and several other ambiance producing items. Furthermore, the purchase of cookbooks leads to Holly's becoming a very good cook. Oddly enough though, she could only cook delicacies. When she tries to scramble eggs, she simply burns them. <br /> <br /> Jose, being a diplomat, works in Washington D.C. three days out of the week. While he is gone, the narrator and Holly meet to go on walks or to go out to dinner. During a conversation, the narrator learns that Holly is six weeks pregnant. She then rambles on about how she wants to have nine children with Jose, and ceraselessly talks about how much she looks forward to moving with Jose to Rio. In fact the only regret that Holly mentions is that she wishes that she could have been a virgin for Jose. 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. &quot;If I were free to,...&quot; Holly continues, &quot; I would not pick Jose&quot; (82). The narrator, after hearing so much about Jose (more than he would like), begins to dislike Jose very much. He even stops saying Jose's name while he is speaking to Holly and simply refers to Jose as &quot;Him.&quot; Holly moves to a different subject and talks about giving up her horoscopes. She believes that this is an example of a good deed. She thinks that &quot; good things happen to those that are good&quot; (83). Later, on an outing, Holly observes ships sailing by and exclaims,&quot; one day, one of those ships would bring me back, me and my nine Brazillion brats&quot;(84). The narrator, tired of hearing about her &quot;brats&quot; and Jose, says &quot;Do shut up&quot;(85). He clearly felt left out, &quot;like a tug boat in drydock while she, glittery voyager of secure destination, steamed down the harbor with whistles whistling and confetti in the air&quot; (85).<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> == Notes ==<br /> *'''&quot;The now defunct newspaper, ''PM''&quot;''' (75) - A left-wing daily newspaper in New York City, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PM_%28newspaper%29 ''PM''] stood for &quot;Picture Magazine,&quot; 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''.<br /> <br /> *'''&quot;A Parke-Bernet Auction&quot;''' (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.<br /> <br /> *'''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 &quot;yellow journalism&quot;] and waas a leader of the liberal wing of the Democratic party from 1896 to 1935.<br /> <br /> *'''Modern Library''' (80) - A division of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_House Randolph House Publishers]. Founded in 1917, it identified itself as &quot;The Modern Library of the World's Best Books.&quot;<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''Waring mixer''' (80) - [http://www.waringproducts.com Waring] is a leading manufacturer of small appliances for the home, food service, and laboratory industries.<br /> <br /> *'''Hausfrau''' (80) - Translated from German to English, &quot;housewife.&quot;<br /> <br /> *'''Outré''' (81) - Highly unconventional; eccentric or bizarre.<br /> <br /> *'''Terrapin''' (81) - An [http://images.google.com/images?q=terrapin&amp;hl=en amphibious reptile turtle] that can live in the water and on land.<br /> <br /> *'''&quot;Nero-ish novelties&quot;''' (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].<br /> <br /> *'''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 &quot;dry fruit,&quot; is an edible fruit borne by some species of the genus [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diospyros ''Diospyros''].<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''Joss sticks''' (84) - Slender sticks of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incense incense] burned before a Chinese image, idol, or shrine.<br /> <br /> == Commentary ==<br /> Capote seems to have known someone in his life that he loved as much as the narrator loves Holly.&quot; He describes this woman in such a way that you get the sense he has moulded her on someone that intrigued him, that held some allure or had an aura of mysticism that left a deep impression.&quot;(Kimbofo) On the other hand, he may have intended to spark a female movement of freedom to do what they want.&quot;''Breakfast at Tiffany's'' inspired women to pack their bags and seek their fortunes in New York all over the country.&quot;(Cash)If this was his goal, then he certainly achieved it! In any case, he portrays very well his anguish upon &quot;learning&quot; that Holly has married Rusty. 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 &quot;party girl-about-town and exuberant phony&quot;(Prior) that he knew becomes a mostly content stay-at-home-wife. <br /> <br /> 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 &quot;non-rat&quot; lover in her life. This is an easy statement to believe, as most early referances to Holly's love life make strong referances to prostitution. Taking men to the powder room and coming out with money, for example. She labels all of her past lovers &quot;rats&quot;, but she forces herself to see an allure in them. &quot;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.&quot;(Cash)<br /> <br /> This stage of the story is one of the narrator's last chances to tell Holly how he really feels. So why dosen'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. Though his &quot;plan&quot; 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, &quot;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&quot; (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. Pugh writes, &quot;...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.&quot; Dependig 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. <br /> <br /> Regardless of her true intentions, this section ends with the narrator giving a wonderful metaphore.&quot; So the days, the last days, blow about in memory...all alike as leaves...&quot;(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 like. The narrator feels the same way about his final days with Holly. He can tell little difference between them, and he spent most of the time with her worrying about the time that she would be away from him. Also like falling leaves, these memories seemed to blow away, unable to be caught to hold on to as a keepsake.<br /> <br /> == Study Questions ==<br /> #Who is it that the narrator believes Holly has married?<br /> #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 &quot;were under the wheels of the train&quot;?<br /> #Who turns out to be the woman that has gotten married?<br /> #What is Dr. Goldman's explanation for Holly's fit?<br /> #What is the real reason for Holly's fit?<br /> #Whose name replaces Mag Wildwood's on Holly's mailbox?<br /> #Holly mentions something of importance to the narrator, while she is talking about her feelings for Jose. What is it?<br /> #Holly says that she would rather have cancer than a what?<br /> #In your opinion, how does Capote relate to the narrator in real life as far as his relationship with Holly?<br /> #What name does Holly give the narrator after her brother dies?<br /> #What kind of boat does the narrator relate himself to? What kind of boat does he picture Holly as?<br /> #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?<br /> <br /> == External Resources ==<br /> *Cash, Matthew. [http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bcash/criticalanalysis.html A Travelin' Through the Pastures of the Sky: A Critical Analysis of &lt;i&gt;Breakfast at Tiffany's&lt;/i&gt;]. 1996.<br /> <br /> == Works Cited ==<br /> *Prior, Lily. &quot;''Breakfast At Tiffany's'' Review.&quot;<br /> 18 March 2006.&lt;http://www.jp41.dial.pipex.com/R735.HTML&gt;<br /> <br /> *Kimbofo. &quot;''At Breakfast Tiffany's'' Reviews.&quot;<br /> ''Reading Matters''. 17 January 2006. 18 March 2006.<br /> &lt;http://kimbofo.typepad.com/readingmatters/2006/01/breakfast_at_ti.html&gt;<br /> <br /> *Pugh, Tison.: Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's.<br /> Explicator (Helen Dwight Reid Educational Foundation, Washington, DC) (61:1) [Fall 2002] , p.51-53.<br /> <br /> *Capote, Truman. ''Breakfast At Tiffany's''. New York: Random House, Inc, 1958.<br /> ----<br /> [[Breakfast at Tiffany's]]</div>

Rscot899 https://litwiki.org/index.php?title=Breakfast_at_Tiffany%27s_Section_8&diff=6132 2006-03-21T15:13:56Z

<p>Rscot899: </p> <hr /> <div>== Summary ==<br /> Section eight of Truman Capote's &lt;i&gt;BaT&lt;/i&gt; begins with the title to a shocking newspaper clipping. It reads, &quot;Trawler marries fourth&quot; (74). The narrator reads this clip while riding the subway home from an unsuccessful job interview. He immediately assumes that Rusty Trawler, a playboy that the narrator has come to loath, has taken Holly to be his fourth wife. His first wish after reading this portion of the article is to be underneath the wheels of the train. He justifies his wish by explaining the recent comings and goings in his life. His &quot;mean reds,&quot; as he puts it, come from many places at once. First of all, he admits that he has been recently fired from his job. The details of his dismissal are &quot;too complicated to recount&quot; (75). Secondly, he has reason to believe that his draft board is pursuing him in an effort to get him to join the military. He says, &quot;The idea of entering another form of disciplined life made me desperate&quot; (75). This causes his frustration to multiply because he cannot seem to find a job. In fact his unfruitful interview with the ''PM,'' a newspaper now closed down, is what he is returning from at the beginning of this section. Most obviously, he believes that Holly has married a man that he completely detests. His mounting jealousy causes him to admit that he does, in fact, love Holly. He also notes that his love for Holly is an identical love that he has experienced with an elderly colored cook and an entire family, probably friends, that he knew when he was younger. Upon reaching the station, he breaks down to his curiosity and buys a paper in order to read the entire article. Much to his surprise, Rusty did not marry Holly! He married Holly's roommate Mag Wildwood. His excitement that Holly is not married to Rusty causes his legs to shake so badly that he must ride a cab home instead of walking. <br /> <br /> The surprises seem to keep coming for the narrator when he finally reaches his apartment building. Madame Spanella is screaming in fear for the police to come. The narrator also notes quite a din coming from a higher floor. Madame Spanella raves, &quot;She is killing somebody! Somebody is killing her!&quot; (76). Instead of going for help the narrator bounds up the steps to the source of the noises which is, of course, Holly's door. After pounding the door with a fist, the noises subside, but no matter how many times he calls, Holly will not come to the door. He futilely throws himself at the door, trying to break in, until Jose Ybarra-Jager, Mag Wildwood's ex-fiance, arrives on the scene followed by a doctor. The narrator crossly notes that Jose opens the door to the apartment with his own key. Following the other two men inside, the narrator finds the apartment in disarray, the cat lapping up milk from the floor (the milk was spilled in the fray), and Holly standing, rigid on the bed. She is muttering an incoherent description of her brother, Fred. The doctor quickly begins to vocally soothe Holly as well as injecting her with a sedative. Jose continues asking the doctor (in bad English) if &quot;Her only sickness is grief?&quot; (78). Annoyed with Jose's questions, he forcefully ejects the other two men from the room. Jose, in anger, chases the snooping Madame Spanella out of the room, and he almost repeats this action with the narrator. In the end though, Jose invites the narrator to sit with him and have a drink which happens to be the only bottle that survived Holly's rampage. Through conversation, the narrator learns that all Jose is worried about is how people might think that he caused Holly to have such a terrible fit. Jose is a politician, and he is afraid of being defaced. Later, Jose finds a telegram on the floor that explains Holly's tantrum. The telegram is a message from Doc, Holly's husband, sent to inform Holly of her brother's death in the war. <br /> <br /> After that day, Holly seems to hibernate. She ceases to talk about her brother (a once common occurrence). She also stops calling the narrator Fred. She now re-dubs him &quot;Buster.&quot; He observes that Holly's hair gets darker and she puts on a lot of weight. On a positive note, Holly becomes quite a home maker. She purchases many classy items to decorate her apartment such as: tapestries, Gothic arm chairs, and several other ambiance producing items. Furthermore, the purchase of cookbooks leads to Holly's becoming a very good cook. Oddly enough though, she could only cook delecacies. When she tries to scramble eggs, she simply burns them. <br /> <br /> Jose, being a diplomat, works in Washington D.C. three days out of the week. While he is gone, the narrator and Holly meet to go on walks or to go out to dinner. During a conversation, the narrator learns that Holly is six weeks pregnant. She then rambles on about how she wants to have nine children with Jose, and ceraselessly talks about how much she looks forward to moving with Jose to Rio. In fact the only regret that Holly mentions is that she wishes that she could have been a virgin for Jose. 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. &quot;If I were free to,...&quot; Holly continues, &quot; I would not pick Jose&quot; (82). The narrator, after hearing so much about Jose (more than he would like), begins to dislike Jose very much. He even stops saying Jose's name while he is speaking to Holly and simply refers to Jose as &quot;Him.&quot; Holly moves to a different subject and talks about giving up her horoscopes. She believes that this is an example of a good deed. She thinks that &quot; good things happen to those that are good&quot; (83). Later, on an outing, Holly observes ships sailing by and exclaims,&quot; one day, one of those ships would bring me back, me and my nine Brazillion brats&quot;(84). The narrator, tired of hearing about her &quot;brats&quot; and Jose, says &quot;Do shut up&quot;(85). He clearly felt left out, &quot;like a tug boat in drydock while she, glittery voyager of secure destination, steamed down the harbor with whistles whistling and confetti in the air&quot; (85).<br /> <br /> ==About The Author==<br /> <br /> Truman Capote was born in New Orleans on September 30, 1924. ( Stuff about his childhood) His first novel, ''Other Voices, Other Rooms'', was a huge success when it was published in 1948.<br /> <br /> == Notes ==<br /> *'''&quot;The now defunct newspaper, ''PM''&quot;''' (75) - A left-wing daily newspaper in New York City, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PM_%28newspaper%29 ''PM''] stood for &quot;Picture Magazine,&quot; 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''.<br /> <br /> *'''&quot;A Parke-Bernet Auction&quot;''' (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.<br /> <br /> *'''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 &quot;yellow journalism&quot;] and waas a leader of the liberal wing of the Democratic party from 1896 to 1935.<br /> <br /> *'''Modern Library''' (80) - A division of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_House Randolph House Publishers]. Founded in 1917, it identified itself as &quot;The Modern Library of the World's Best Books.&quot;<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''Waring mixer''' (80) - [http://www.waringproducts.com Waring] is a leading manufacturer of small appliances for the home, food service, and laboratory industries.<br /> <br /> *'''Hausfrau''' (80) - Translated from German to English, &quot;housewife.&quot;<br /> <br /> *'''Outré''' (81) - Highly unconventional; eccentric or bizarre.<br /> <br /> *'''Terrapin''' (81) - An [http://images.google.com/images?q=terrapin&amp;hl=en amphibious reptile turtle] that can live in the water and on land.<br /> <br /> *'''&quot;Nero-ish novelties&quot;''' (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].<br /> <br /> *'''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 &quot;dry fruit,&quot; is an edible fruit borne by some species of the genus [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diospyros ''Diospyros''].<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''Joss sticks''' (84) - Slender sticks of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incense incense] burned before a Chinese image, idol, or shrine.<br /> <br /> == Commentary ==<br /> Capote seems to have known someone in his life that he loved as much as the narrator loves Holly.&quot; He describes this woman in such a way that you get the sense he has moulded her on someone that intrigued him, that held some allure or had an aura of mysticism that left a deep impression.&quot;(Kimbofo) On the other hand, he may have intended to spark a female movement of freedom to do what they want.&quot;''Breakfast at Tiffany's'' inspired women to pack their bags and seek their fortunes in New York all over the country.&quot;(Cash)If this was his goal, then he certainly achieved it! In any case, he portrays very well his anguish upon &quot;learning&quot; that Holly has married Rusty. 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 &quot;party girl-about-town and exuberant phony&quot;(Prior) that he knew becomes a mostly content stay-at-home-wife. <br /> <br /> 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 &quot;non-rat&quot; lover in her life. This is an easy statement to believe, as most early referances to Holly's love life make strong referances to prostitution. Taking men to the powder room and coming out with money, for example. She labels all of her past lovers &quot;rats&quot;, but she forces herself to see an allure in them. &quot;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.&quot;(Cash)<br /> <br /> This stage of the story is one of the narrator's last chances to tell Holly how he really feels. So why dosen'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. Though his &quot;plan&quot; 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, &quot;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&quot; (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. Pugh writes, &quot;...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.&quot; Dependig 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. <br /> <br /> Regardless of her true intentions, this section ends with the narrator giving a wonderful metaphore.&quot; So the days, the last days, blow about in memory...all alike as leaves...&quot;(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 like. The narrator feels the same way about his final days with Holly. He can tell little difference between them, and he spent most of the time with her worrying about the time that she would be away from him. Also like falling leaves, these memories seemed to blow away, unable to be caught to hold on to as a keepsake.<br /> <br /> == Study Questions ==<br /> #Who is it that the narrator believes Holly has married?<br /> #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 &quot;were under the wheels of the train&quot;?<br /> #Who turns out to be the woman that has gotten married?<br /> #What is Dr. Goldman's explanation for Holly's fit?<br /> #What is the real reason for Holly's fit?<br /> #Whose name replaces Mag Wildwood's on Holly's mailbox?<br /> #Holly mentions something of importance to the narrator, while she is talking about her feelings for Jose. What is it?<br /> #Holly says that she would rather have cancer than a what?<br /> #In your opinion, how does Capote relate to the narrator in real life as far as his relationship with Holly?<br /> #What name does Holly give the narrator after her brother dies?<br /> #What kind of boat does the narrator relate himself to? What kind of boat does he picture Holly as?<br /> #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?<br /> <br /> == External Resources ==<br /> *Cash, Matthew. [http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bcash/criticalanalysis.html A Travelin' Through the Pastures of the Sky: A Critical Analysis of &lt;i&gt;Breakfast at Tiffany's&lt;/i&gt;]. 1996.<br /> <br /> == Works Cited ==<br /> *Prior, Lily. &quot;''Breakfast At Tiffany's'' Review.&quot;<br /> 18 March 2006.&lt;http://www.jp41.dial.pipex.com/R735.HTML&gt;<br /> <br /> *Kimbofo. &quot;''At Breakfast Tiffany's'' Reviews.&quot;<br /> ''Reading Matters''. 17 January 2006. 18 March 2006.<br /> &lt;http://kimbofo.typepad.com/readingmatters/2006/01/breakfast_at_ti.html&gt;<br /> <br /> *Pugh, Tison.: Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's.<br /> Explicator (Helen Dwight Reid Educational Foundation, Washington, DC) (61:1) [Fall 2002] , p.51-53.<br /> <br /> *Capote, Truman. ''Breakfast At Tiffany's''. New York: Random House, Inc, 1958.<br /> ----<br /> [[Breakfast at Tiffany's]]</div>

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<p>Rscot899: </p> <hr /> <div>== Summary ==<br /> Section eight of Truman Capote's &lt;i&gt;BaT&lt;/i&gt; begins with the title to a shocking newspaper clipping. It reads, &quot;Trawler marries fourth&quot; (74). The narrator reads this clip while riding the subway home from an unsuccessful job interview. He immediately assumes that Rusty Trawler, a playboy that the narrator has come to loath, has taken Holly to be his fourth wife. His first wish after reading this portion of the article is to be underneath the wheels of the train. He justifies his wish by explaining the recent comings and goings in his life. His &quot;mean reds,&quot; as he puts it, come from many places at once. First of all, he admits that he has been recently fired from his job. The details of his dismissal are &quot;too complicated to recount&quot; (75). Secondly, he has reason to believe that his draft board is pursuing him in an effort to get him to join the military. He says, &quot;The idea of entering another form of disciplined life made me desperate&quot; (75). This causes his frustration to multiply because he cannot seem to find a job. In fact his unfruitful interview with the ''PM,'' a newspaper now closed down, is what he is returning from at the beginning of this section. Most obviously, he believes that Holly has married a man that he completely detests. His mounting jealousy causes him to admit that he does, in fact, love Holly. He also notes that his love for Holly is an identical love that he has experienced with an elderly colored cook and an entire family, probably friends, that he knew when he was younger. Upon reaching the station, he breaks down to his curiosity and buys a paper in order to read the entire article. Much to his surprise, Rusty did not marry Holly! He married Holly's roommate Mag Wildwood. His excitement that Holly is not married to Rusty causes his legs to shake so badly that he must ride a cab home instead of walking. <br /> <br /> The surprises seem to keep coming for the narrator when he finally reaches his apartment building. Madame Spanella is screaming in fear for the police to come. The narrator also notes quite a din coming from a higher floor. Madame Spanella raves, &quot;She is killing somebody! Somebody is killing her!&quot; (76). Instead of going for help the narrator bounds up the steps to the source of the noises which is, of course, Holly's door. After pounding the door with a fist, the noises subside, but no matter how many times he calls, Holly will not come to the door. He futilely throws himself at the door, trying to break in, until Jose Ybarra-Jager, Mag Wildwood's ex-fiance, arrives on the scene followed by a doctor. The narrator crossly notes that Jose opens the door to the apartment with his own key. Following the other two men inside, the narrator finds the apartment in disarray, the cat lapping up milk from the floor (the milk was spilled in the fray), and Holly standing, rigid on the bed. She is muttering an incoherrent description of her brother, Fred. The doctor quickly begins to vocally soothe Holly as well as injecting her with a sedative. Jose continues asking the doctor (in bad English) if &quot;Her only sickness is grief?&quot; (78). Annoyed with Jose's questions, he forcefully ejects the other two men from the room. Jose, in anger, chases the snooping Madame Spanella out of the room, and he almost repeats this action with the narrator. In the end though, Jose invites the narrator to sit with him and have a drink which happens to be the only bottle that survived Holly's rampage. Through conversation, the narrator learns that all Jose is worried about is how people might think that he caused Holly to have such a terrible fit. Jose is a politician, and he is afraid of being defaced. Later, Jose finds a telegram on the floor that explains Holly's tantrum. The telegram is a message from Doc, Holly's husband, sent to inform Holly of her brother's death in the war. <br /> <br /> After that day, Holly seems to hibernate. She ceases to talk about her brother (a once common occurrance). She also stops calling the narrator Fred. She now re-dubs him &quot;Buster.&quot; He observes that Holly's hair gets darker and she puts on a lot of weight. On a positive note, Holly becomes quite a home maker. She purchases many classy items to decorate her apartment such as: tapestries, Gothic arm chairs, and several other ambiance producing items. Furthermore, the purchase of cookbooks leads to Holly's becoming a very good cook. Oddly enough though, she could only cook delecacies. When she tries to scramble eggs, she simply burns them. <br /> <br /> Jose, being a diplomat, works in Washington D.C. three days out of the week. While he is gone, the narrator and Holly meet to go on walks or to go out to dinner. During a conversation, the narrator learns that Holly is six weeks pregnant. She then rambles on about how she wants to have nine children with Jose, and ceraselessly talks about how much she looks forward to moving with Jose to Rio. In fact the only regret that Holly mentions is that she wishes that she could have been a virgin for Jose. 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. &quot;If I were free to,...&quot; Holly continues, &quot; I would not pick Jose&quot; (82). The narrator, after hearing so much about Jose (more than he would like), begins to dislike Jose very much. He even stops saying Jose's name while he is speaking to Holly and simply refers to Jose as &quot;Him.&quot; Holly moves to a different subject and talks about giving up her horoscopes. She believes that this is an example of a good deed. She thinks that &quot; good things happen to those that are good&quot; (83). Later, on an outing, Holly observes ships sailing by and exclaims,&quot; one day, one of those ships would bring me back, me and my nine Brazillion brats&quot;(84). The narrator, tired of hearing about her &quot;brats&quot; and Jose, says &quot;Do shut up&quot;(85). He clearly felt left out, &quot;like a tug boat in drydock while she, glittery voyager of secure destination, steamed down the harbor with whistles whistling and confetti in the air&quot; (85).<br /> <br /> ==About The Author==<br /> <br /> Truman Capote was born in New Orleans on September 30, 1924. ( Stuff about his childhood) His first novel, ''Other Voices, Other Rooms'', was a huge success when it was published in 1948.<br /> <br /> == Notes ==<br /> *'''&quot;The now defunct newspaper, ''PM''&quot;''' (75) - A left-wing daily newspaper in New York City, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PM_%28newspaper%29 ''PM''] stood for &quot;Picture Magazine,&quot; 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''.<br /> <br /> *'''&quot;A Parke-Bernet Auction&quot;''' (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.<br /> <br /> *'''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 &quot;yellow journalism&quot;] and waas a leader of the liberal wing of the Democratic party from 1896 to 1935.<br /> <br /> *'''Modern Library''' (80) - A division of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_House Randolph House Publishers]. Founded in 1917, it identified itself as &quot;The Modern Library of the World's Best Books.&quot;<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''Waring mixer''' (80) - [http://www.waringproducts.com Waring] is a leading manufacturer of small appliances for the home, food service, and laboratory industries.<br /> <br /> *'''Hausfrau''' (80) - Translated from German to English, &quot;housewife.&quot;<br /> <br /> *'''Outré''' (81) - Highly unconventional; eccentric or bizarre.<br /> <br /> *'''Terrapin''' (81) - An [http://images.google.com/images?q=terrapin&amp;hl=en amphibious reptile turtle] that can live in the water and on land.<br /> <br /> *'''&quot;Nero-ish novelties&quot;''' (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].<br /> <br /> *'''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 &quot;dry fruit,&quot; is an edible fruit borne by some species of the genus [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diospyros ''Diospyros''].<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''Joss sticks''' (84) - Slender sticks of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incense incense] burned before a Chinese image, idol, or shrine.<br /> <br /> == Commentary ==<br /> Capote seems to have known someone in his life that he loved as much as the narrator loves Holly.&quot; He describes this woman in such a way that you get the sense he has moulded her on someone that intrigued him, that held some allure or had an aura of mysticism that left a deep impression.&quot;(Kimbofo) On the other hand, he may have intended to spark a female movement of freedom to do what they want.&quot;''Breakfast at Tiffany's'' inspired women to pack their bags and seek their fortunes in New York all over the country.&quot;(Cash)If this was his goal, then he certainly achieved it! In any case, he portrays very well his anguish upon &quot;learning&quot; that Holly has married Rusty. 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 &quot;party girl-about-town and exuberant phony&quot;(Prior) that he knew becomes a mostly content stay-at-home-wife. <br /> <br /> 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 &quot;non-rat&quot; lover in her life. This is an easy statement to believe, as most early referances to Holly's love life make strong referances to prostitution. Taking men to the powder room and coming out with money, for example. She labels all of her past lovers &quot;rats&quot;, but she forces herself to see an allure in them. &quot;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.&quot;(Cash)<br /> <br /> This stage of the story is one of the narrator's last chances to tell Holly how he really feels. So why dosen'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. Though his &quot;plan&quot; 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, &quot;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&quot; (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. Pugh writes, &quot;...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.&quot; Dependig 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. <br /> <br /> Regardless of her true intentions, this section ends with the narrator giving a wonderful metaphore.&quot; So the days, the last days, blow about in memory...all alike as leaves...&quot;(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 like. The narrator feels the same way about his final days with Holly. He can tell little difference between them, and he spent most of the time with her worrying about the time that she would be away from him. Also like falling leaves, these memories seemed to blow away, unable to be caught to hold on to as a keepsake.<br /> <br /> == Study Questions ==<br /> #Who is it that the narrator believes Holly has married?<br /> #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 &quot;were under the wheels of the train&quot;?<br /> #Who turns out to be the woman that has gotten married?<br /> #What is Dr. Goldman's explanation for Holly's fit?<br /> #What is the real reason for Holly's fit?<br /> #Whose name replaces Mag Wildwood's on Holly's mailbox?<br /> #Holly mentions something of importance to the narrator, while she is talking about her feelings for Jose. What is it?<br /> #Holly says that she would rather have cancer than a what?<br /> #In your opinion, how does Capote relate to the narrator in real life as far as his relationship with Holly?<br /> #What name does Holly give the narrator after her brother dies?<br /> #What kind of boat does the narrator relate himself to? What kind of boat does he picture Holly as?<br /> #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?<br /> <br /> == External Resources ==<br /> *Cash, Matthew. [http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bcash/criticalanalysis.html A Travelin' Through the Pastures of the Sky: A Critical Analysis of &lt;i&gt;Breakfast at Tiffany's&lt;/i&gt;]. 1996.<br /> <br /> == Works Cited ==<br /> *Prior, Lily. &quot;''Breakfast At Tiffany's'' Review.&quot;<br /> 18 March 2006.&lt;http://www.jp41.dial.pipex.com/R735.HTML&gt;<br /> <br /> *Kimbofo. &quot;''At Breakfast Tiffany's'' Reviews.&quot;<br /> ''Reading Matters''. 17 January 2006. 18 March 2006.<br /> &lt;http://kimbofo.typepad.com/readingmatters/2006/01/breakfast_at_ti.html&gt;<br /> <br /> *Pugh, Tison.: Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's.<br /> Explicator (Helen Dwight Reid Educational Foundation, Washington, DC) (61:1) [Fall 2002] , p.51-53.<br /> <br /> *Capote, Truman. ''Breakfast At Tiffany's''. New York: Random House, Inc, 1958.<br /> ----<br /> [[Breakfast at Tiffany's]]</div>

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<p>Rscot899: </p> <hr /> <div>== Summary ==<br /> Section eight of Truman Capote's &lt;i&gt;BaT&lt;/i&gt; begins with the title to a shocking newspaper clipping. It reads, &quot;Trawler marries fourth&quot; (74). The narrator reads this clip while riding the subway home from an unsuccessful job interview. He immediately assumes that Rusty Trawler, a playboy that the narrator has come to loath, has taken Holly to be his fourth wife. His first wish after reading this portion of the article is to be underneath the wheels of the train. He justifies his wish by explaining the recent comings and goings in his life. His &quot;mean reds,&quot; as he puts it, come from many places at once. First of all, he admits that he has been recently fired from his job. The details of his dismissal are &quot;too complicated to recount&quot; (75). Secondly, he has reason to believe that his draft board is pursuing him in an effort to get him to join the military. He says, &quot;The idea of entering another form of disciplined life made me desperate&quot; (75). This causes his frustration to multiply because he cannot seem to find a job. In fact his unfruitful interview with the ''PM,'' a newspaper now closed down, is what he is returning from at the beginning of this section. Most obviously, he believes that Holly has married a man that he completely detests. His mounting jealousy causes him to admit that he does, in fact, love Holly. He also notes that his love for Holly is an identical love that he has experienced with an elderly colored cook and an entire family, probably friends, that he knew when he was younger. Upon reaching the station, he breaks down to his curiosity and buys a paper in order to read the entire article. Much to his surprise, Rusty did not marry Holly! He married Holly's roommate Mag Wildwood. His excitement that Holly is not married to Rusty causes his legs to shake so badly that he must ride a cab home instead of walking. <br /> <br /> The surprises seem to keep coming for the narrator when he finally reaches his apartment building. Madame Spanella is screaming in fear for the police to come. The narrator also notes quite a din coming from a higher floor. Madame Spanella raves, &quot;She is killing somebody! Somebody is killing her!&quot; (76). Instead of going for help the narrator bounds up the steps to the source of the noises which is, of course, Holly's door. After pounding the door with a fist, the noises subside, but no matter how many times he calls, Holly will not come to the door. He futilly throws himself at the door, trying to break in, until Jose Ybarra-Jager, Mag Wildwood's ex-fiance, arrives on the scene followed by a doctor. The narrator crossly notes that Jose opens the door to the apartment with his own key. Following the other two men inside, the narrator finds the apartment in disarray, the cat lapping up milk from the floor (the milk was spilled in the fray), and Holly standing, rigid on the bed. She is muttering an incoherrent description of her brother, Fred. The doctor quickly begins to vocally soothe Holly as well as injecting her with a sedative. Jose continues asking the doctor (in bad English) if &quot;Her only sickness is grief?&quot; (78). Annoyed with Jose's questions, he forcefully ejects the other two men from the room. Jose, in anger, chases the snooping Madame Spanella out of the room, and he almost repeats this action with the narrator. In the end though, Jose invites the narrator to sit with him and have a drink which happens to be the only bottle that survived Holly's rampage. Through conversation, the narrator learns that all Jose is worried about is how people might think that he caused Holly to have such a terrible fit. Jose is a politician, and he is afraid of being defaced. Later, Jose finds a telegram on the floor that explains Holly's tantrum. The telegram is a message from Doc, Holly's husband, sent to inform Holly of her brother's death in the war. <br /> <br /> After that day, Holly seems to hibernate. She ceases to talk about her brother (a once common occurrance). She also stops calling the narrator Fred. She now re-dubs him &quot;Buster.&quot; He observes that Holly's hair gets darker and she puts on a lot of weight. On a positive note, Holly becomes quite a home maker. She purchases many classy items to decorate her apartment such as: tapestries, Gothic arm chairs, and several other ambiance producing items. Furthermore, the purchase of cookbooks leads to Holly's becoming a very good cook. Oddly enough though, she could only cook delecacies. When she tries to scramble eggs, she simply burns them. <br /> <br /> Jose, being a diplomat, works in Washington D.C. three days out of the week. While he is gone, the narrator and Holly meet to go on walks or to go out to dinner. During a conversation, the narrator learns that Holly is six weeks pregnant. She then rambles on about how she wants to have nine children with Jose, and ceraselessly talks about how much she looks forward to moving with Jose to Rio. In fact the only regret that Holly mentions is that she wishes that she could have been a virgin for Jose. 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. &quot;If I were free to,...&quot; Holly continues, &quot; I would not pick Jose&quot; (82). The narrator, after hearing so much about Jose (more than he would like), begins to dislike Jose very much. He even stops saying Jose's name while he is speaking to Holly and simply refers to Jose as &quot;Him.&quot; Holly moves to a different subject and talks about giving up her horoscopes. She believes that this is an example of a good deed. She thinks that &quot; good things happen to those that are good&quot; (83). Later, on an outing, Holly observes ships sailing by and exclaims,&quot; one day, one of those ships would bring me back, me and my nine Brazillion brats&quot;(84). The narrator, tired of hearing about her &quot;brats&quot; and Jose, says &quot;Do shut up&quot;(85). He clearly felt left out, &quot;like a tug boat in drydock while she, glittery voyager of secure destination, steamed down the harbor with whistles whistling and confetti in the air&quot; (85).<br /> <br /> == Notes ==<br /> *'''&quot;The now defunct newspaper, ''PM''&quot;''' (75) - A left-wing daily newspaper in New York City, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PM_%28newspaper%29 ''PM''] stood for &quot;Picture Magazine,&quot; 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''.<br /> <br /> *'''&quot;A Parke-Bernet Auction&quot;''' (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.<br /> <br /> *'''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 &quot;yellow journalism&quot;] and waas a leader of the liberal wing of the Democratic party from 1896 to 1935.<br /> <br /> *'''Modern Library''' (80) - A division of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_House Randolph House Publishers]. Founded in 1917, it identified itself as &quot;The Modern Library of the World's Best Books.&quot;<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''Waring mixer''' (80) - [http://www.waringproducts.com Waring] is a leading manufacturer of small appliances for the home, food service, and laboratory industries.<br /> <br /> *'''Hausfrau''' (80) - Translated from German to English, &quot;housewife.&quot;<br /> <br /> *'''Outré''' (81) - Highly unconventional; eccentric or bizarre.<br /> <br /> *'''Terrapin''' (81) - An [http://images.google.com/images?q=terrapin&amp;hl=en amphibious reptile turtle] that can live in the water and on land.<br /> <br /> *'''&quot;Nero-ish novelties&quot;''' (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].<br /> <br /> *'''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 &quot;dry fruit,&quot; is an edible fruit borne by some species of the genus [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diospyros ''Diospyros''].<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''Joss sticks''' (84) - Slender sticks of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incense incense] burned before a Chinese image, idol, or shrine.<br /> <br /> == Commentary ==<br /> Capote seems to have known someone in his life that he loved as much as the narrator loves Holly.&quot; He describes this woman in such a way that you get the sense he has moulded her on someone that intrigued him, that held some allure or had an aura of mysticism that left a deep impression.&quot;(Kimbofo) On the other hand, he may have intended to spark a female movement of freedom to do what they want.&quot;''Breakfast at Tiffany's'' inspired women to pack their bags and seek their fortunes in New York all over the country.&quot;(Cash)If this was his goal, then he certainly achieved it! In any case, he portrays very well his anguish upon &quot;learning&quot; that Holly has married Rusty. 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 &quot;party girl-about-town and exuberant phony&quot;(Prior) that he knew becomes a mostly content stay-at-home-wife. <br /> <br /> 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 &quot;non-rat&quot; lover in her life. This is an easy statement to believe, as most early referances to Holly's love life make strong referances to prostitution. Taking men to the powder room and coming out with money, for example. She labels all of her past lovers &quot;rats&quot;, but she forces herself to see an allure in them. &quot;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.&quot;(Cash)<br /> <br /> This stage of the story is one of the narrator's last chances to tell Holly how he really feels. So why dosen'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. Though his &quot;plan&quot; 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, &quot;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&quot; (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. Pugh writes, &quot;...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.&quot; Dependig 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. <br /> <br /> Regardless of her true intentions, this section ends with the narrator giving a wonderful metaphore.&quot; So the days, the last days, blow about in memory...all alike as leaves...&quot;(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 like. The narrator feels the same way about his final days with Holly. He can tell little difference between them, and he spent most of the time with her worrying about the time that she would be away from him. Also like falling leaves, these memories seemed to blow away, unable to be caught to hold on to as a keepsake.<br /> <br /> == Study Questions ==<br /> #Who is it that the narrator believes Holly has married?<br /> #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 &quot;were under the wheels of the train&quot;?<br /> #Who turns out to be the woman that has gotten married?<br /> #What is Dr. Goldman's explanation for Holly's fit?<br /> #What is the real reason for Holly's fit?<br /> #Whose name replaces Mag Wildwood's on Holly's mailbox?<br /> #Holly mentions something of importance to the narrator, while she is talking about her feelings for Jose. What is it?<br /> #Holly says that she would rather have cancer than a what?<br /> #In your opinion, how does Capote relate to the narrator in real life as far as his relationship with Holly?<br /> #What name does Holly give the narrator after her brother dies?<br /> #What kind of boat does the narrator relate himself to? What kind of boat does he picture Holly as?<br /> #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?<br /> <br /> == External Resources ==<br /> *Cash, Matthew. [http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bcash/criticalanalysis.html A Travelin' Through the Pastures of the Sky: A Critical Analysis of &lt;i&gt;Breakfast at Tiffany's&lt;/i&gt;]. 1996.<br /> <br /> == Works Cited ==<br /> *Prior, Lily. &quot;''Breakfast At Tiffany's'' Review.&quot;<br /> 18 March 2006.&lt;http://www.jp41.dial.pipex.com/R735.HTML&gt;<br /> <br /> *Kimbofo. &quot;''At Breakfast Tiffany's'' Reviews.&quot;<br /> ''Reading Matters''. 17 January 2006. 18 March 2006.<br /> &lt;http://kimbofo.typepad.com/readingmatters/2006/01/breakfast_at_ti.html&gt;<br /> <br /> *Pugh, Tison.: Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's.<br /> Explicator (Helen Dwight Reid Educational Foundation, Washington, DC) (61:1) [Fall 2002] , p.51-53.<br /> <br /> *Capote, Truman. ''Breakfast At Tiffany's''. New York: Random House, Inc, 1958.<br /> ----<br /> [[Breakfast at Tiffany's]]</div>

Rscot899 https://litwiki.org/index.php?title=Breakfast_at_Tiffany%27s_Section_8&diff=6126 2006-03-21T15:09:20Z

<p>Rscot899: </p> <hr /> <div>== Summary ==<br /> Section eight of Truman Capote's &lt;i&gt;BaT&lt;/i&gt; begins with the title to a shocking newspaper clipping. It reads, &quot;Trawler marries fourth&quot; (74). The narrator reads this clip while riding the subway home from an unsuccessful job interview. He immediately assumes that Rusty Trawler, a playboy that the narrator has come to loath, has taken Holly to be his fourth wife. His first wish after reading this portion of the article is to be underneath the wheels of the train. He justifies his wish by explaining the recent comings and goings in his life. His &quot;mean reds,&quot; as he puts it, come from many places at once. First of all, he admits that he has been recently fired from his job. The details of his dismissal are &quot;too complicated to recount&quot; (75). Secondly, he has reason to believe that his draft board is persuing him in an effort to get him to join the military. He says, &quot;The idea of entering another form of disciplined life made me desperate&quot; (75). This causes his frustration to multiply because he cannot seem to find a job. In fact his unfruitful interview with the ''PM,'' a newspaper now closed down, is what he is returning from at the beginning of this section. Most obviously, he believes that Holly has married a man that he completely detests. His mounting jealousy causes him to admit that he does, in fact, love Holly. He also notes that his love for Holly is an identical love that he has experienced with an elderly colored cook and an entire family, probably friends, that he knew when he was younger. Upon reaching the station, he breaks down to his curiosity and buys a paper in order to read the entire article. Much to his surprise, Rusty did not marry Holly! He married Holly's roommate Mag Wildwood. His excitement that Holly is not married to Rusty causes his legs to shake so badly that he must ride a cab home instead of walking. <br /> <br /> The surprises seem to keep coming for the narrator when he finally reaches his apartment building. Madame Spanella is screaming in fear for the police to come. The narrator also notes quite a din comming from a higher floor. Madame Spanella raves, &quot;She is killing somebody! Somebody is killing her!&quot; (76). Instead of going for help the narrator bounds up the steps to the source of the noises which is, of course, Holly's door. After pounding the door with a fist, the noises subside, but no matter how many times he calls, Holly will not come to the door. He futilly throws himself at the door, trying to break in, until Jose Ybarra-Jager, Mag Wildwood's ex-fiance, arrives on the scene followed by a doctor. The narrator crossly notes that Jose opens the door to the apartment with his own key. Following the other two men inside, the narrator finds the apartment in disarray, the cat lapping up milk from the floor (the milk was spilled in the fray), and Holly standing, rigid on the bed. She is muttering an incoherrent description of her brother, Fred. The doctor quickly begins to vocally soothe Holly as well as injecting her with a sedative. Jose continues asking the doctor (in bad English) if &quot;Her only sickness is grief?&quot; (78). Annoyed with Jose's questions, he forcefully ejects the other two men from the room. Jose, in anger, chases the snooping Madame Spanella out of the room, and he almost repeats this action with the narrator. In the end though, Jose invites the narrator to sit with him and have a drink which happens to be the only bottle that survived Holly's rampage. Through conversation, the narrator learns that all Jose is worried about is how people might think that he caused Holly to have such a terrible fit. Jose is a politician, and he is afraid of being defaced. Later, Jose finds a telegram on the floor that explains Holly's tantrum. The telegram is a message from Doc, Holly's husband, sent to inform Holly of her brother's death in the war. <br /> <br /> After that day, Holly seems to hibernate. She ceases to talk about her brother (a once common occurrance). She also stops calling the narrator Fred. She now re-dubs him &quot;Buster.&quot; He observes that Holly's hair gets darker and she puts on a lot of weight. On a positive note, Holly becomes quite a home maker. She purchases many classy items to decorate her apartment such as: tapestries, Gothic arm chairs, and several other ambiance producing items. Furthermore, the purchase of cookbooks leads to Holly's becoming a very good cook. Oddly enough though, she could only cook delecacies. When she tries to scramble eggs, she simply burns them. <br /> <br /> Jose, being a diplomat, works in Washington D.C. three days out of the week. While he is gone, the narrator and Holly meet to go on walks or to go out to dinner. During a conversation, the narrator learns that Holly is six weeks pregnant. She then rambles on about how she wants to have nine children with Jose, and ceraselessly talks about how much she looks forward to moving with Jose to Rio. In fact the only regret that Holly mentions is that she wishes that she could have been a virgin for Jose. 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. &quot;If I were free to,...&quot; Holly continues, &quot; I would not pick Jose&quot; (82). The narrator, after hearing so much about Jose (more than he would like), begins to dislike Jose very much. He even stops saying Jose's name while he is speaking to Holly and simply refers to Jose as &quot;Him.&quot; Holly moves to a different subject and talks about giving up her horoscopes. She believes that this is an example of a good deed. She thinks that &quot; good things happen to those that are good&quot; (83). Later, on an outing, Holly observes ships sailing by and exclaims,&quot; one day, one of those ships would bring me back, me and my nine Brazillion brats&quot;(84). The narrator, tired of hearing about her &quot;brats&quot; and Jose, says &quot;Do shut up&quot;(85). He clearly felt left out, &quot;like a tug boat in drydock while she, glittery voyager of secure destination, steamed down the harbor with whistles whistling and confetti in the air&quot; (85).<br /> <br /> == Notes ==<br /> *'''&quot;The now defunct newspaper, ''PM''&quot;''' (75) - A left-wing daily newspaper in New York City, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PM_%28newspaper%29 ''PM''] stood for &quot;Picture Magazine,&quot; 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''.<br /> <br /> *'''&quot;A Parke-Bernet Auction&quot;''' (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.<br /> <br /> *'''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 &quot;yellow journalism&quot;] and waas a leader of the liberal wing of the Democratic party from 1896 to 1935.<br /> <br /> *'''Modern Library''' (80) - A division of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_House Randolph House Publishers]. Founded in 1917, it identified itself as &quot;The Modern Library of the World's Best Books.&quot;<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''Waring mixer''' (80) - [http://www.waringproducts.com Waring] is a leading manufacturer of small appliances for the home, food service, and laboratory industries.<br /> <br /> *'''Hausfrau''' (80) - Translated from German to English, &quot;housewife.&quot;<br /> <br /> *'''Outré''' (81) - Highly unconventional; eccentric or bizarre.<br /> <br /> *'''Terrapin''' (81) - An [http://images.google.com/images?q=terrapin&amp;hl=en amphibious reptile turtle] that can live in the water and on land.<br /> <br /> *'''&quot;Nero-ish novelties&quot;''' (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].<br /> <br /> *'''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 &quot;dry fruit,&quot; is an edible fruit borne by some species of the genus [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diospyros ''Diospyros''].<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''Joss sticks''' (84) - Slender sticks of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incense incense] burned before a Chinese image, idol, or shrine.<br /> <br /> == Commentary ==<br /> Capote seems to have known someone in his life that he loved as much as the narrator loves Holly.&quot; He describes this woman in such a way that you get the sense he has moulded her on someone that intrigued him, that held some allure or had an aura of mysticism that left a deep impression.&quot;(Kimbofo) On the other hand, he may have intended to spark a female movement of freedom to do what they want.&quot;''Breakfast at Tiffany's'' inspired women to pack their bags and seek their fortunes in New York all over the country.&quot;(Cash)If this was his goal, then he certainly achieved it! In any case, he portrays very well his anguish upon &quot;learning&quot; that Holly has married Rusty. 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 &quot;party girl-about-town and exuberant phony&quot;(Prior) that he knew becomes a mostly content stay-at-home-wife. <br /> <br /> 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 &quot;non-rat&quot; lover in her life. This is an easy statement to believe, as most early referances to Holly's love life make strong referances to prostitution. Taking men to the powder room and coming out with money, for example. She labels all of her past lovers &quot;rats&quot;, but she forces herself to see an allure in them. &quot;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.&quot;(Cash)<br /> <br /> This stage of the story is one of the narrator's last chances to tell Holly how he really feels. So why dosen'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. Though his &quot;plan&quot; 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, &quot;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&quot; (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. Pugh writes, &quot;...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.&quot; Dependig 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. <br /> <br /> Regardless of her true intentions, this section ends with the narrator giving a wonderful metaphore.&quot; So the days, the last days, blow about in memory...all alike as leaves...&quot;(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 like. The narrator feels the same way about his final days with Holly. He can tell little difference between them, and he spent most of the time with her worrying about the time that she would be away from him. Also like falling leaves, these memories seemed to blow away, unable to be caught to hold on to as a keepsake.<br /> <br /> == Study Questions ==<br /> #Who is it that the narrator believes Holly has married?<br /> #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 &quot;were under the wheels of the train&quot;?<br /> #Who turns out to be the woman that has gotten married?<br /> #What is Dr. Goldman's explanation for Holly's fit?<br /> #What is the real reason for Holly's fit?<br /> #Whose name replaces Mag Wildwood's on Holly's mailbox?<br /> #Holly mentions something of importance to the narrator, while she is talking about her feelings for Jose. What is it?<br /> #Holly says that she would rather have cancer than a what?<br /> #In your opinion, how does Capote relate to the narrator in real life as far as his relationship with Holly?<br /> #What name does Holly give the narrator after her brother dies?<br /> #What kind of boat does the narrator relate himself to? What kind of boat does he picture Holly as?<br /> #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?<br /> <br /> == External Resources ==<br /> *Cash, Matthew. [http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bcash/criticalanalysis.html A Travelin' Through the Pastures of the Sky: A Critical Analysis of &lt;i&gt;Breakfast at Tiffany's&lt;/i&gt;]. 1996.<br /> <br /> == Works Cited ==<br /> *Prior, Lily. &quot;''Breakfast At Tiffany's'' Review.&quot;<br /> 18 March 2006.&lt;http://www.jp41.dial.pipex.com/R735.HTML&gt;<br /> <br /> *Kimbofo. &quot;''At Breakfast Tiffany's'' Reviews.&quot;<br /> ''Reading Matters''. 17 January 2006. 18 March 2006.<br /> &lt;http://kimbofo.typepad.com/readingmatters/2006/01/breakfast_at_ti.html&gt;<br /> <br /> *Pugh, Tison.: Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's.<br /> Explicator (Helen Dwight Reid Educational Foundation, Washington, DC) (61:1) [Fall 2002] , p.51-53.<br /> <br /> *Capote, Truman. ''Breakfast At Tiffany's''. New York: Random House, Inc, 1958.<br /> ----<br /> [[Breakfast at Tiffany's]]</div>

Rscot899 https://litwiki.org/index.php?title=Breakfast_at_Tiffany%27s_Section_8&diff=6124 2006-03-21T15:06:50Z

<p>Rscot899: </p> <hr /> <div>== Summary ==<br /> Section eight of Truman Capote's &lt;i&gt;BaT&lt;/i&gt; begins with the title to a shocking newspaper clipping. It reads, &quot;Trawler marries fourth&quot; (74). The narrator reads this clip while riding the subway home from an unsuccessful job interview. He immediately assumes that Rusty Trawler, a playboy that the narrator has come to loath, has taken Holly to be his fourth wife. His first wish after reading this portion of the article is to be underneath the wheels of the train. He justifies his wish by explaining the recent comings and goings in his life. His &quot;mean reds,&quot; as he puts it, come from many places at once. First of all, he admits that he has been recently fired from his job. The details of his dismissal are &quot; too complicated to recount&quot; (75). Secondly, he has reason to believe that his draft board is persuing him in an effort to get him to join the military. He says, &quot;The idea of entering another form of disciplined life made me desperate&quot; (75). This causes his frustration to multiply because he cannot seem to find a job. In fact his unfruitful interview with the ''PM,'' a newspaper now closed down, is what he is returning from at the beginning of this section. Most obviously, he believes that Holly has married a man that he completely detests. His mounting jealousy causes him to admit that he does, in fact, love Holly. He also notes that his love for Holly is an identical love that he has experienced with an elderly colored cook and an entire family, probably friends, that he knew when he was younger. Upon reaching the station, he breaks down to his curiosity and buys a paper in order to read the entire article. Much to his surprise, Rusty did not marry Holly! He married Holly's roommate Mag Wildwood. His excitement that Holly is not married to Rusty causes his legs to shake so badly that he must ride a cab home instead of walking. <br /> <br /> The surprises seem to keep coming for the narrator when he finally reaches his apartment building. Madame Spanella is screaming in fear for the police to come. The narrator also notes quite a din comming from a higher floor. Madame Spanella raves, &quot;She is killing somebody! Somebody is killing her!&quot; (76). Instead of going for help the narrator bounds up the steps to the source of the noises which is, of course, Holly's door. After pounding the door with a fist, the noises subside, but no matter how many times he calls, Holly will not come to the door. He futilly throws himself at the door, trying to break in, until Jose Ybarra-Jager, Mag Wildwood's ex-fiance, arrives on the scene followed by a doctor. The narrator crossly notes that Jose opens the door to the apartment with his own key. Following the other two men inside, the narrator finds the apartment in disarray, the cat lapping up milk from the floor (the milk was spilled in the fray), and Holly standing, rigid on the bed. She is muttering an incoherrent description of her brother, Fred. The doctor quickly begins to vocally soothe Holly as well as injecting her with a sedative. Jose continues asking the doctor (in bad English) if &quot;Her only sickness is grief?&quot; (78). Annoyed with Jose's questions, he forcefully ejects the other two men from the room. Jose, in anger, chases the snooping Madame Spanella out of the room, and he almost repeats this action with the narrator. In the end though, Jose invites the narrator to sit with him and have a drink which happens to be the only bottle that survived Holly's rampage. Through conversation, the narrator learns that all Jose is worried about is how people might think that he caused Holly to have such a terrible fit. Jose is a politician, and he is afraid of being defaced. Later, Jose finds a telegram on the floor that explains Holly's tantrum. The telegram is a message from Doc, Holly's husband, sent to inform Holly of her brother's death in the war. <br /> <br /> After that day, Holly seems to hibernate. She ceases to talk about her brother (a once common occurrance). She also stops calling the narrator Fred. She now re-dubs him &quot;Buster.&quot; He observes that Holly's hair gets darker and she puts on a lot of weight. On a positive note, Holly becomes quite a home maker. She purchases many classy items to decorate her apartment such as: tapestries, Gothic arm chairs, and several other ambiance producing items. Furthermore, the purchase of cookbooks leads to Holly's becoming a very good cook. Oddly enough though, she could only cook delecacies. When she tries to scramble eggs, she simply burns them. <br /> <br /> Jose, being a diplomat, works in Washington D.C. three days out of the week. While he is gone, the narrator and Holly meet to go on walks or to go out to dinner. During a conversation, the narrator learns that Holly is six weeks pregnant. She then rambles on about how she wants to have nine children with Jose, and ceraselessly talks about how much she looks forward to moving with Jose to Rio. In fact the only regret that Holly mentions is that she wishes that she could have been a virgin for Jose. 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. &quot;If I were free to,...&quot; Holly continues, &quot; I would not pick Jose&quot; (82). The narrator, after hearing so much about Jose (more than he would like), begins to dislike Jose very much. He even stops saying Jose's name while he is speaking to Holly and simply refers to Jose as &quot;Him.&quot; Holly moves to a different subject and talks about giving up her horoscopes. She believes that this is an example of a good deed. She thinks that &quot; good things happen to those that are good&quot; (83). Later, on an outing, Holly observes ships sailing by and exclaims,&quot; one day, one of those ships would bring me back, me and my nine Brazillion brats&quot;(84). The narrator, tired of hearing about her &quot;brats&quot; and Jose, says &quot;Do shut up&quot;(85). He clearly felt left out, &quot;like a tug boat in drydock while she, glittery voyager of secure destination, steamed down the harbor with whistles whistling and confetti in the air&quot; (85).<br /> <br /> == Notes ==<br /> *'''&quot;The now defunct newspaper, ''PM''&quot;''' (75) - A left-wing daily newspaper in New York City, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PM_%28newspaper%29 ''PM''] stood for &quot;Picture Magazine,&quot; 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''.<br /> <br /> *'''&quot;A Parke-Bernet Auction&quot;''' (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.<br /> <br /> *'''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 &quot;yellow journalism&quot;] and waas a leader of the liberal wing of the Democratic party from 1896 to 1935.<br /> <br /> *'''Modern Library''' (80) - A division of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_House Randolph House Publishers]. Founded in 1917, it identified itself as &quot;The Modern Library of the World's Best Books.&quot;<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''Waring mixer''' (80) - [http://www.waringproducts.com Waring] is a leading manufacturer of small appliances for the home, food service, and laboratory industries.<br /> <br /> *'''Hausfrau''' (80) - Translated from German to English, &quot;housewife.&quot;<br /> <br /> *'''Outré''' (81) - Highly unconventional; eccentric or bizarre.<br /> <br /> *'''Terrapin''' (81) - An [http://images.google.com/images?q=terrapin&amp;hl=en amphibious reptile turtle] that can live in the water and on land.<br /> <br /> *'''&quot;Nero-ish novelties&quot;''' (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].<br /> <br /> *'''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 &quot;dry fruit,&quot; is an edible fruit borne by some species of the genus [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diospyros ''Diospyros''].<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''Joss sticks''' (84) - Slender sticks of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incense incense] burned before a Chinese image, idol, or shrine.<br /> <br /> == Commentary ==<br /> Capote seems to have known someone in his life that he loved as much as the narrator loves Holly.&quot; He describes this woman in such a way that you get the sense he has moulded her on someone that intrigued him, that held some allure or had an aura of mysticism that left a deep impression.&quot;(Kimbofo) On the other hand, he may have intended to spark a female movement of freedom to do what they want.&quot;''Breakfast at Tiffany's'' inspired women to pack their bags and seek their fortunes in New York all over the country.&quot;(Cash)If this was his goal, then he certainly achieved it! In any case, he portrays very well his anguish upon &quot;learning&quot; that Holly has married Rusty. 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 &quot;party girl-about-town and exuberant phony&quot;(Prior) that he knew becomes a mostly content stay-at-home-wife. <br /> <br /> 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 &quot;non-rat&quot; lover in her life. This is an easy statement to believe, as most early referances to Holly's love life make strong referances to prostitution. Taking men to the powder room and coming out with money, for example. She labels all of her past lovers &quot;rats&quot;, but she forces herself to see an allure in them. &quot;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.&quot;(Cash)<br /> <br /> This stage of the story is one of the narrator's last chances to tell Holly how he really feels. So why dosen'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. Though his &quot;plan&quot; 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, &quot;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&quot; (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. Pugh writes, &quot;...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.&quot; Dependig 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. <br /> <br /> Regardless of her true intentions, this section ends with the narrator giving a wonderful metaphore.&quot; So the days, the last days, blow about in memory...all alike as leaves...&quot;(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 like. The narrator feels the same way about his final days with Holly. He can tell little difference between them, and he spent most of the time with her worrying about the time that she would be away from him. Also like falling leaves, these memories seemed to blow away, unable to be caught to hold on to as a keepsake.<br /> <br /> == Study Questions ==<br /> #Who is it that the narrator believes Holly has married?<br /> #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 &quot;were under the wheels of the train&quot;?<br /> #Who turns out to be the woman that has gotten married?<br /> #What is Dr. Goldman's explanation for Holly's fit?<br /> #What is the real reason for Holly's fit?<br /> #Whose name replaces Mag Wildwood's on Holly's mailbox?<br /> #Holly mentions something of importance to the narrator, while she is talking about her feelings for Jose. What is it?<br /> #Holly says that she would rather have cancer than a what?<br /> #In your opinion, how does Capote relate to the narrator in real life as far as his relationship with Holly?<br /> #What name does Holly give the narrator after her brother dies?<br /> #What kind of boat does the narrator relate himself to? What kind of boat does he picture Holly as?<br /> #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?<br /> <br /> == External Resources ==<br /> *Cash, Matthew. [http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bcash/criticalanalysis.html A Travelin' Through the Pastures of the Sky: A Critical Analysis of &lt;i&gt;Breakfast at Tiffany's&lt;/i&gt;]. 1996.<br /> <br /> == Works Cited ==<br /> *Prior, Lily. &quot;''Breakfast At Tiffany's'' Review.&quot;<br /> 18 March 2006.&lt;http://www.jp41.dial.pipex.com/R735.HTML&gt;<br /> <br /> *Kimbofo. &quot;''At Breakfast Tiffany's'' Reviews.&quot;<br /> ''Reading Matters''. 17 January 2006. 18 March 2006.<br /> &lt;http://kimbofo.typepad.com/readingmatters/2006/01/breakfast_at_ti.html&gt;<br /> <br /> *Pugh, Tison.: Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's.<br /> Explicator (Helen Dwight Reid Educational Foundation, Washington, DC) (61:1) [Fall 2002] , p.51-53.<br /> <br /> *Capote, Truman. ''Breakfast At Tiffany's''. New York: Random House, Inc, 1958.<br /> ----<br /> [[Breakfast at Tiffany's]]</div>

Rscot899 https://litwiki.org/index.php?title=Breakfast_at_Tiffany%27s_Section_8&diff=6122 2006-03-21T15:05:51Z

<p>Rscot899: </p> <hr /> <div>== Summary ==<br /> Section eight of Truman Capote's &lt;i&gt;BaT&lt;/i&gt; begins with the title to a shocking newspaper clipping. It reads, &quot;Trawler marries fourth&quot; (74). The narrator reads this clip while riding the subway home from an unsuccessful job interview. He immediately assumes that Rusty Trawler, a playboy that the narrator has come to loath, has taken Holly to be his fourth wife. His first wish after reading this portion of the article is to be underneath the wheels of the train. He justifies his wish by explaining the recent comings and goings in his life. His &quot;mean reds&quot;, as he puts it, come from many places at once. First of all, he admits that he has been recently fired from his job. The details of his dismissal are &quot; too complicated to recount&quot; (75). Secondly, he has reason to believe that his draft board is persuing him in an effort to get him to join the military. He says, &quot;The idea of entering another form of disciplined life made me desperate&quot; (75). This causes his frustration to multiply because he cannot seem to find a job. In fact his unfruitful interview with the ''PM,'' a newspaper now closed down, is what he is returning from at the beginning of this section. Most obviously, he believes that Holly has married a man that he completely detests. His mounting jealousy causes him to admit that he does, in fact, love Holly. He also notes that his love for Holly is an identical love that he has experienced with an elderly colored cook and an entire family, probably friends, that he knew when he was younger. Upon reaching the station, he breaks down to his curiosity and buys a paper in order to read the entire article. Much to his surprise, Rusty did not marry Holly! He married Holly's roommate Mag Wildwood. His excitement that Holly is not married to Rusty causes his legs to shake so badly that he must ride a cab home instead of walking. <br /> <br /> The surprises seem to keep coming for the narrator when he finally reaches his apartment building. Madame Spanella is screaming in fear for the police to come. The narrator also notes quite a din comming from a higher floor. Madame Spanella raves, &quot;She is killing somebody! Somebody is killing her!&quot; (76). Instead of going for help the narrator bounds up the steps to the source of the noises which is, of course, Holly's door. After pounding the door with a fist, the noises subside, but no matter how many times he calls, Holly will not come to the door. He futilly throws himself at the door, trying to break in, until Jose Ybarra-Jager, Mag Wildwood's ex-fiance, arrives on the scene followed by a doctor. The narrator crossly notes that Jose opens the door to the apartment with his own key. Following the other two men inside, the narrator finds the apartment in disarray, the cat lapping up milk from the floor (the milk was spilled in the fray), and Holly standing, rigid on the bed. She is muttering an incoherrent description of her brother, Fred. The doctor quickly begins to vocally soothe Holly as well as injecting her with a sedative. Jose continues asking the doctor (in bad English) if &quot;Her only sickness is grief?&quot; (78). Annoyed with Jose's questions, he forcefully ejects the other two men from the room. Jose, in anger, chases the snooping Madame Spanella out of the room, and he almost repeats this action with the narrator. In the end though, Jose invites the narrator to sit with him and have a drink which happens to be the only bottle that survived Holly's rampage. Through conversation, the narrator learns that all Jose is worried about is how people might think that he caused Holly to have such a terrible fit. Jose is a politician, and he is afraid of being defaced. Later, Jose finds a telegram on the floor that explains Holly's tantrum. The telegram is a message from Doc, Holly's husband, sent to inform Holly of her brother's death in the war. <br /> <br /> After that day, Holly seems to hibernate. She ceases to talk about her brother (a once common occurrance). She also stops calling the narrator Fred. She now re-dubs him &quot;Buster.&quot; He observes that Holly's hair gets darker and she puts on a lot of weight. On a positive note, Holly becomes quite a home maker. She purchases many classy items to decorate her apartment such as: tapestries, Gothic arm chairs, and several other ambiance producing items. Furthermore, the purchase of cookbooks leads to Holly's becoming a very good cook. Oddly enough though, she could only cook delecacies. When she tries to scramble eggs, she simply burns them. <br /> <br /> Jose, being a diplomat, works in Washington D.C. three days out of the week. While he is gone, the narrator and Holly meet to go on walks or to go out to dinner. During a conversation, the narrator learns that Holly is six weeks pregnant. She then rambles on about how she wants to have nine children with Jose, and ceraselessly talks about how much she looks forward to moving with Jose to Rio. In fact the only regret that Holly mentions is that she wishes that she could have been a virgin for Jose. 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. &quot;If I were free to,...&quot; Holly continues, &quot; I would not pick Jose&quot; (82). The narrator, after hearing so much about Jose (more than he would like), begins to dislike Jose very much. He even stops saying Jose's name while he is speaking to Holly and simply refers to Jose as &quot;Him.&quot; Holly moves to a different subject and talks about giving up her horoscopes. She believes that this is an example of a good deed. She thinks that &quot; good things happen to those that are good&quot; (83). Later, on an outing, Holly observes ships sailing by and exclaims,&quot; one day, one of those ships would bring me back, me and my nine Brazillion brats&quot;(84). The narrator, tired of hearing about her &quot;brats&quot; and Jose, says &quot;Do shut up&quot;(85). He clearly felt left out, &quot;like a tug boat in drydock while she, glittery voyager of secure destination, steamed down the harbor with whistles whistling and confetti in the air&quot; (85).<br /> <br /> == Notes ==<br /> *'''&quot;The now defunct newspaper, ''PM''&quot;''' (75) - A left-wing daily newspaper in New York City, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PM_%28newspaper%29 ''PM''] stood for &quot;Picture Magazine,&quot; 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''.<br /> <br /> *'''&quot;A Parke-Bernet Auction&quot;''' (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.<br /> <br /> *'''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 &quot;yellow journalism&quot;] and waas a leader of the liberal wing of the Democratic party from 1896 to 1935.<br /> <br /> *'''Modern Library''' (80) - A division of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_House Randolph House Publishers]. Founded in 1917, it identified itself as &quot;The Modern Library of the World's Best Books.&quot;<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''Waring mixer''' (80) - [http://www.waringproducts.com Waring] is a leading manufacturer of small appliances for the home, food service, and laboratory industries.<br /> <br /> *'''Hausfrau''' (80) - Translated from German to English, &quot;housewife.&quot;<br /> <br /> *'''Outré''' (81) - Highly unconventional; eccentric or bizarre.<br /> <br /> *'''Terrapin''' (81) - An [http://images.google.com/images?q=terrapin&amp;hl=en amphibious reptile turtle] that can live in the water and on land.<br /> <br /> *'''&quot;Nero-ish novelties&quot;''' (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].<br /> <br /> *'''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 &quot;dry fruit,&quot; is an edible fruit borne by some species of the genus [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diospyros ''Diospyros''].<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''Joss sticks''' (84) - Slender sticks of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incense incense] burned before a Chinese image, idol, or shrine.<br /> <br /> == Commentary ==<br /> Capote seems to have known someone in his life that he loved as much as the narrator loves Holly.&quot; He describes this woman in such a way that you get the sense he has moulded her on someone that intrigued him, that held some allure or had an aura of mysticism that left a deep impression.&quot;(Kimbofo) On the other hand, he may have intended to spark a female movement of freedom to do what they want.&quot;''Breakfast at Tiffany's'' inspired women to pack their bags and seek their fortunes in New York all over the country.&quot;(Cash)If this was his goal, then he certainly achieved it! In any case, he portrays very well his anguish upon &quot;learning&quot; that Holly has married Rusty. 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 &quot;party girl-about-town and exuberant phony&quot;(Prior) that he knew becomes a mostly content stay-at-home-wife. <br /> <br /> 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 &quot;non-rat&quot; lover in her life. This is an easy statement to believe, as most early referances to Holly's love life make strong referances to prostitution. Taking men to the powder room and coming out with money, for example. She labels all of her past lovers &quot;rats&quot;, but she forces herself to see an allure in them. &quot;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.&quot;(Cash)<br /> <br /> This stage of the story is one of the narrator's last chances to tell Holly how he really feels. So why dosen'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. Though his &quot;plan&quot; 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, &quot;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&quot; (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. Pugh writes, &quot;...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.&quot; Dependig 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. <br /> <br /> Regardless of her true intentions, this section ends with the narrator giving a wonderful metaphore.&quot; So the days, the last days, blow about in memory...all alike as leaves...&quot;(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 like. The narrator feels the same way about his final days with Holly. He can tell little difference between them, and he spent most of the time with her worrying about the time that she would be away from him. Also like falling leaves, these memories seemed to blow away, unable to be caught to hold on to as a keepsake.<br /> <br /> == Study Questions ==<br /> #Who is it that the narrator believes Holly has married?<br /> #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 &quot;were under the wheels of the train&quot;?<br /> #Who turns out to be the woman that has gotten married?<br /> #What is Dr. Goldman's explanation for Holly's fit?<br /> #What is the real reason for Holly's fit?<br /> #Whose name replaces Mag Wildwood's on Holly's mailbox?<br /> #Holly mentions something of importance to the narrator, while she is talking about her feelings for Jose. What is it?<br /> #Holly says that she would rather have cancer than a what?<br /> #In your opinion, how does Capote relate to the narrator in real life as far as his relationship with Holly?<br /> #What name does Holly give the narrator after her brother dies?<br /> #What kind of boat does the narrator relate himself to? What kind of boat does he picture Holly as?<br /> #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?<br /> <br /> == External Resources ==<br /> *Cash, Matthew. [http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bcash/criticalanalysis.html A Travelin' Through the Pastures of the Sky: A Critical Analysis of &lt;i&gt;Breakfast at Tiffany's&lt;/i&gt;]. 1996.<br /> <br /> == Works Cited ==<br /> *Prior, Lily. &quot;''Breakfast At Tiffany's'' Review.&quot;<br /> 18 March 2006.&lt;http://www.jp41.dial.pipex.com/R735.HTML&gt;<br /> <br /> *Kimbofo. &quot;''At Breakfast Tiffany's'' Reviews.&quot;<br /> ''Reading Matters''. 17 January 2006. 18 March 2006.<br /> &lt;http://kimbofo.typepad.com/readingmatters/2006/01/breakfast_at_ti.html&gt;<br /> <br /> *Pugh, Tison.: Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's.<br /> Explicator (Helen Dwight Reid Educational Foundation, Washington, DC) (61:1) [Fall 2002] , p.51-53.<br /> <br /> *Capote, Truman. ''Breakfast At Tiffany's''. New York: Random House, Inc, 1958.<br /> ----<br /> [[Breakfast at Tiffany's]]</div>

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<p>Rscot899: </p> <hr /> <div>== Summary ==<br /> The narrator notices the decreasing mention of Holly in the news and finds himself longing to be with her once again. He reads in the headlines of a newspaper about Sally Tomato's death and how Holly is believed to be in Rio. Holly's &quot;abandoned possessions&quot; are sold, and a man name Quaintance Smith moves into her old apartment. Mr. Quaintance entertains as many friends as Holly did, and Madame Spanella has no problem with him or his noisy friends. Madame Spanella evens comes to Mr. Quaintance's aid when he is bruised by one of his guest. Little is heard of from Holly, until the narrator receives a postcard in the spring. It appears she has met someone new and is looking for somewhere to live. Holly informs him that Brazil was too tough, but she has moved to Buenos Aires and she likes it. She explains how it is not Tiffany's but close. The new gentleman that she is interested in is a guy she calls $enor. He is married and has seven children. Holly believes that she is in love with him. The narrator is excited at the thought of hearing from Holly again. He wishes he had an address in which to write Holly to tell her, he read in the newspaper that the Trawlers are getting a divorce and they are moving out of the brownstone, and that he sold two of his stories. Most important, he wanted Holly to know that he found her cat.<br /> <br /> == Notes ==<br /> *'''Arican Hut''' (111) - A single story [http://www.cvmbs.colostate.edu/mip/leprosy/huts.jpg building] made up of natural materials usually wood, which is used for shelter or a house.<br /> *'''Brazil''' (110) - The largest [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil country] in Eastern South America that was founded by the Portuguese in the 1500.<br /> <br /> *'''Brownstone''' (110) - Perfers to old brick apartment where Holly once lived.<br /> <br /> *'''Buenos Aires''' (110) - The largest [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buenos-Aires country] in Argentina. Located in the eastern part of the country on the Rio de la Plata. Was founded by the Spanish in 1536. Buenos Aires became the capital of Argentina in 1862.<br /> <br /> *'''Countersue''' (110) - Means one party to sue a second party who is already suing the first party.<br /> <br /> *'''Flanked''' (110) -Means to be beside someone or something.<br /> <br /> *'''Gangland Victim''' (109) - A person who is exploited by underground, orgainized crime.<br /> <br /> *'''Gossip-Column''' (109) - A [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gossip_column gossip column] is a media feature about celebrities' private serects or rumors that has been spread about them.<br /> <br /> *'''Mille Tendresse''' (110) - A term translated into English means, mille: thousand and tendresse: affection. Which close in the American speaking tongue to say lots of love.<br /> <br /> *'''Rio''' (109) - Rio de Janeiro, a state and a city in Southeastern Brazil.<br /> <br /> *'''Sing Sing''' (109) - A prison in New York.<br /> <br /> *'''Spanish Harlem''' (110) - Area urbanized by the addition of brownstones and apartment buildings in the 1880's. Predominantly Hispanic, it is also referred to as East Harlem, found in New York City.<br /> <br /> *'''Two bits''' (109) - [http://www.snopes.com/humor/jokes/quarters.asp quarter] Equal to one quarter.<br /> <br /> *'''Quaintance Smith''' (110) - The man that moved into Holly's apartment after she moved out. &quot;...a new tenant acquired the apartment, his name was Quaintance Smith, and he entertained as many gentlemen callers of a noisy nature as Holly ever had...&quot; (Capote 110).<br /> <br /> == Commentary ==<br /> The last section of the novella focuses on the narrator's last regrets concerning Holly. The gossip in the paper dies down and he goes through the months of winter hoping to hear from her. In the time that has passed since she left, a man named Quaintance Smith has moved into her old apartment. He receives far better treatment from Madame Spanella that Holly did. He hosts parties and has the occasional black eye, for which Spanella aids him with &quot;filet mignon&quot; (110). <br /> <br /> The novella ends with the narrator's hope that Holly has finally found a home, a venture in which her cat has been successful. He regrets most that he cannot reach Holly to tell her about the cat. He expresses that whether it be an &quot;African hut or whatever,&quot; he hopes Holly &quot;arrived somewhere [she] belonged&quot; (111). <br /> <br /> == Study Questions ==<br /> #What is the name of the new tenant in Holly's old apartment?<br /> #What happened to her belongings?<br /> #What is the one thing he wishes to tell Holly the most?<br /> #Who found Holly's cat?<br /> #How did Sally Tomato die?<br /> #What day did Sally Tomato die?<br /> #What does the narrator promise Holly?<br /> #Where did Sally Tomato die?<br /> #Where did Holly write from?<br /> #What does the narrator hope Holly will find?<br /> #What is the name of Holly's new friend?<br /> #How long did it take the narrator to find the cat?<br /> <br /> == External Resources ==<br /> <br /> *Cash, Matthew. [http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bcash/criticalanalysis.html A Travelin' Through the Pastures of the Sky: A Critical Analysis of &lt;i&gt;Breakfast at Tiffany's&lt;/i&gt;]. 1996.<br /> <br /> == Works Cited ==<br /> <br /> * Capote, Truman. ''Breakfast at Tiffany's'' . New York: Random House Inc., 1958.<br /> <br /> ----<br /> [[Breakfast at Tiffany's]]<br /> ----<br /> <br /> ----</div>

Rscot899 https://litwiki.org/index.php?title=Breakfast_at_Tiffany%27s_Section_13&diff=6118 2006-03-21T14:58:07Z

<p>Rscot899: </p> <hr /> <div>== Summary ==<br /> The narrator notices the decreasing mention of Holly in the news and finds himself longing to be with her once again. He reads in the headlines of a newspaper about Sally Tomato's death and how Holly is believed to be in Rio. Holly's &quot;abandoned possessions&quot; are sold, and a man name Quaintance Smith moves into her old apartment. Mr. Quaintance entertains as many friends as Holly did, and Madame Spanella has no problem with him or his noisy friends. Madame Spanella evens comes to Mr. Quaintance's aid when he is bruised by one of his guest. Little is heard of from Holly, until the narrator receives a postcard in the spring. It appears she has met someone new and is looking for somewhere to live. Holly informs him that Brazil was too tough, but she has moved to Buenos Aires and she likes it. She explains how it is not Tiffany's but close. The new gentleman that she is interested in is a guy she calls $enor. He is married and has seven children. Holly believes that she is in love with him. The narrator is excited at the thought of hearing from Holly again. He wishes he had an address in which to write Holly to tell her, he read in the newspaper that the Trawlers are getting a divorce and they are moving out of the brownstone, and that he sold two of his stories. Most important, he wanted Holly to know that he found her cat.<br /> <br /> == Notes ==<br /> *'''Arican Hut''' (111) - A single story [http://www.cvmbs.colostate.edu/mip/leprosy/huts.jpg building] made up of natural materials usually wood, which is used for shelter or a house.<br /> *'''Brazil''' (110) - The largest [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil country] in Eastern South America that was founded by the Portuguese in the 1500.<br /> <br /> *'''Brownstone''' (110) - Perfers to old brick apartment where Holly once lived.<br /> <br /> *'''Buenos Aires''' (110) - The largest [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buenos-Aires country] in Argentina. Located in the eastern part of the country on the Rio de la Plata. Was founded by the Spanish in 1536. Buenos Aires became the capital of Argentina in 1862.<br /> <br /> *'''Countersue''' (110) - Means one party to sue a second party who is already suing the first party.<br /> <br /> *'''Flanked''' (110) -Means to be beside someone or something.<br /> <br /> *'''Gangland Victim''' (109) - A person who is exploited by underground, orgainized crime.<br /> <br /> *'''Gossip-Column''' (109) - A [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gossip_column gossip column] is a media feature about celebrities' private serects or rumors that has been spread about them.<br /> <br /> *'''Mille Tendresse''' (110) - A term translated into English means, mille: thousand and tendresse: affection. Which close in the American speaking tongue to say lots of love.<br /> <br /> *'''Rio''' (109) - Rio de Janeiro, a state and a city in Southeastern Brazil.<br /> <br /> *'''Sing Sing''' (109) - A prison in New York.<br /> <br /> *'''Spanish Harlem''' (110) - Area urbanized by the addition of brownstones and apartment buildings in the 1880's. Predominantly Hispanic, it is also referred to as East Harlem, found in New York City.<br /> <br /> *'''Two bits''' (109) - [http://www.snopes.com/humor/jokes/quarters.asp quarter] Equal to one quarter.<br /> <br /> *'''Quaintance Smith''' (110) - The man that moved into Holly's apartment after she moved out. &quot;...a new tenant acquired the apartment, his name was Quaintance Smith, and he entertained as many gentlemen callers of a noisy nature as Holly ever had...&quot; (Capote 110).<br /> <br /> == Commentary ==<br /> The last section of the novella focuses on the narrator's last regrets concerning Holly. The gossip in the paper dies down and he goes through the months of winter hoping to hear from her. In the time that has passed since she left, a man named Quaintance Smith has moved into her old apartment. He receives far better treatment from Madame Spanella that Holly did. He hosts parties and has the occasional black eye, for which Spanella aids him with &quot;filet mignon&quot; (110). <br /> <br /> The novella ends with the narrator's hope that Holly has finally found a home, a venture in which her cat has been successful. He regrets most that he cannot reach Holly to tell her about the cat. He expresses that whether it be an &quot;African hut or whatever,&quot; he hopes Holly &quot;arrived somewhere [she] belonged&quot; (111). <br /> <br /> == Study Questions ==<br /> #What is the name of the new tenant in Holly's old apartment?<br /> #What happened to her belongings?<br /> #What is the one thing he wishes to tell Holly the most?<br /> #Who found Holly's cat?<br /> #How did Sally Tomato die?<br /> #What day did Sally Tomato die?<br /> #What does the narrator promise Holly?<br /> #Where did Sally Tomato die?<br /> #Where did Holly write from?<br /> #What does the narrator hope Holly will find?<br /> #What is the name of Holly's new friend?<br /> #How long did it take the narrator to find the cat?<br /> <br /> == External Resources ==<br /> <br /> *Cash, Matthew. [http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bcash/criticalanalysis.html A Travelin' Through the Pastures of the Sky: A Critical Analysis of &lt;i&gt;Breakfast at Tiffany's&lt;/i&gt;]. 1996.<br /> <br /> == Works Cited ==<br /> <br /> * Capote, Truman. ''Breakfast at Tiffany's'' . New York: Random House Inc., 1958.</div>

Rscot899 https://litwiki.org/index.php?title=Breakfast_at_Tiffany%27s_Section_8&diff=6107 2006-03-21T14:52:40Z

<p>Rscot899: </p> <hr /> <div>== Summary ==<br /> Section eight of Truman Capote's &quot;Breakfast At Tiffany's&quot; begins with the title to a shocking newspaper clipping. It reads, &quot;Trawler marries fourth&quot; (74). The narrator reads this clip while riding the subway home from an unsuccessful job interview. He immediately assumes that Rusty Trawler, a playboy that the narrator has come to loath, has taken Holly to be his fourth wife. His first wish after reading this portion of the article is to be underneath the wheels of the train. He justifies his wish by explaining the recent comings and goings in his life. His &quot;mean reds&quot;, as he puts it, come from many places at once. First of all, he admits that he has been recently fired from his job. The details of his dismissal are &quot; too complicated to recount&quot; (75). Secondly, he has reason to believe that his draft board is persuing him in an effort to get him to join the military. He says, &quot;The idea of entering another form of disciplined life made me desperate&quot; (75). This causes his frustration to multiply because he cannot seem to find a job. In fact his unfruitful interview with the ''PM,'' a newspaper now closed down, is what he is returning from at the beginning of this section. Most obviously, he believes that Holly has married a man that he completely detests. His mounting jealousy causes him to admit that he does, in fact, love Holly. He also notes that his love for Holly is an identical love that he has experienced with an elderly colored cook and an entire family, probably friends, that he knew when he was younger. Upon reaching the station, he breaks down to his curiosity and buys a paper in order to read the entire article. Much to his surprise, Rusty did not marry Holly! He married Holly's roommate Mag Wildwood. His excitement that Holly is not married to Rusty causes his legs to shake so badly that he must ride a cab home instead of walking. <br /> <br /> The surprises seem to keep coming for the narrator when he finally reaches his apartment building. Madame Spanella is screaming in fear for the police to come. The narrator also notes quite a din comming from a higher floor. Madame Spanella raves, &quot;She is killing somebody! Somebody is killing her!&quot; (76). Instead of going for help the narrator bounds up the steps to the source of the noises which is, of course, Holly's door. After pounding the door with a fist, the noises subside, but no matter how many times he calls, Holly will not come to the door. He futilly throws himself at the door, trying to break in, until Jose Ybarra-Jager, Mag Wildwood's ex-fiance, arrives on the scene followed by a doctor. The narrator crossly notes that Jose opens the door to the apartment with his own key. Following the other two men inside, the narrator finds the apartment in disarray, the cat lapping up milk from the floor (the milk was spilled in the fray), and Holly standing, rigid on the bed. She is muttering an incoherrent description of her brother, Fred. The doctor quickly begins to vocally soothe Holly as well as injecting her with a sedative. Jose continues asking the doctor (in bad English) if &quot;Her only sickness is grief?&quot; (78). Annoyed with Jose's questions, he forcefully ejects the other two men from the room. Jose, in anger, chases the snooping Madame Spanella out of the room, and he almost repeats this action with the narrator. In the end though, Jose invites the narrator to sit with him and have a drink which happens to be the only bottle that survived Holly's rampage. Through conversation, the narrator learns that all Jose is worried about is how people might think that he caused Holly to have such a terrible fit. Jose is a politician, and he is afraid of being defaced. Later, Jose finds a telegram on the floor that explains Holly's tantrum. The telegram is a message from Doc, Holly's husband, sent to inform Holly of her brother's death in the war. <br /> <br /> After that day, Holly seems to hibernate. She ceases to talk about her brother (a once common occurrance). She also stops calling the narrator Fred. She now re-dubs him &quot;Buster.&quot; He observes that Holly's hair gets darker and she puts on a lot of weight. On a positive note, Holly becomes quite a home maker. She purchases many classy items to decorate her apartment such as: tapestries, Gothic arm chairs, and several other ambiance producing items. Furthermore, the purchase of cookbooks leads to Holly's becoming a very good cook. Oddly enough though, she could only cook delecacies. When she tries to scramble eggs, she simply burns them. <br /> <br /> Jose, being a diplomat, works in Washington D.C. three days out of the week. While he is gone, the narrator and Holly meet to go on walks or to go out to dinner. During a conversation, the narrator learns that Holly is six weeks pregnant. She then rambles on about how she wants to have nine children with Jose, and ceraselessly talks about how much she looks forward to moving with Jose to Rio. In fact the only regret that Holly mentions is that she wishes that she could have been a virgin for Jose. 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. &quot;If I were free to,...&quot; Holly continues, &quot; I would not pick Jose&quot; (82). The narrator, after hearing so much about Jose (more than he would like), begins to dislike Jose very much. He even stops saying Jose's name while he is speaking to Holly and simply refers to Jose as &quot;Him.&quot; Holly moves to a different subject and talks about giving up her horoscopes. She believes that this is an example of a good deed. She thinks that &quot; good things happen to those that are good&quot; (83). Later, on an outing, Holly observes ships sailing by and exclaims,&quot; one day, one of those ships would bring me back, me and my nine Brazillion brats&quot;(84). The narrator, tired of hearing about her &quot;brats&quot; and Jose, says &quot;Do shut up&quot;(85). He clearly felt left out, &quot;like a tug boat in drydock while she, glittery voyager of secure destination, steamed down the harbor with whistles whistling and confetti in the air&quot; (85).<br /> <br /> == Notes ==<br /> *'''&quot;The now defunct newspaper, ''PM''&quot;''' (75) - A left-wing daily newspaper in New York City, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PM_%28newspaper%29 ''PM''] stood for &quot;Picture Magazine,&quot; 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''.<br /> <br /> *'''&quot;A Parke-Bernet Auction&quot;''' (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.<br /> <br /> *'''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 &quot;yellow journalism&quot;] and waas a leader of the liberal wing of the Democratic party from 1896 to 1935.<br /> <br /> *'''Modern Library''' (80) - A division of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_House Randolph House Publishers]. Founded in 1917, it identified itself as &quot;The Modern Library of the World's Best Books.&quot;<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''Waring mixer''' (80) - [http://www.waringproducts.com Waring] is a leading manufacturer of small appliances for the home, food service, and laboratory industries.<br /> <br /> *'''Hausfrau''' (80) - Translated from German to English, &quot;housewife.&quot;<br /> <br /> *'''Outré''' (81) - Highly unconventional; eccentric or bizarre.<br /> <br /> *'''Terrapin''' (81) - An [http://images.google.com/images?q=terrapin&amp;hl=en amphibious reptile turtle] that can live in the water and on land.<br /> <br /> *'''&quot;Nero-ish novelties&quot;''' (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].<br /> <br /> *'''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 &quot;dry fruit,&quot; is an edible fruit borne by some species of the genus [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diospyros ''Diospyros''].<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''Joss sticks''' (84) - Slender sticks of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incense incense] burned before a Chinese image, idol, or shrine.<br /> <br /> == Commentary ==<br /> Capote seems to have known someone in his life that he loved as much as the narrator loves Holly.&quot; He describes this woman in such a way that you get the sense he has moulded her on someone that intrigued him, that held some allure or had an aura of mysticism that left a deep impression.&quot;(Kimbofo) On the other hand, he may have intended to spark a female movement of freedom to do what they want.&quot;''Breakfast at Tiffany's'' inspired women to pack their bags and seek their fortunes in New York all over the country.&quot;(Cash)If this was his goal, then he certainly achieved it! In any case, he portrays very well his anguish upon &quot;learning&quot; that Holly has married Rusty. 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 &quot;party girl-about-town and exuberant phony&quot;(Prior) that he knew becomes a mostly content stay-at-home-wife. <br /> <br /> 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 &quot;non-rat&quot; lover in her life. This is an easy statement to believe, as most early referances to Holly's love life make strong referances to prostitution. Taking men to the powder room and coming out with money, for example. She labels all of her past lovers &quot;rats&quot;, but she forces herself to see an allure in them. &quot;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.&quot;(Cash)<br /> <br /> This stage of the story is one of the narrator's last chances to tell Holly how he really feels. So why dosen'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. Though his &quot;plan&quot; 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.<br /> <br /> Regardless of her true intentions, this section ends with the narrator giving a wonderful metaphore.&quot; So the days, the last days, blow about in memory...all alike as leaves...&quot;(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 like. The narrator feels the same way about his final days with Holly. He can tell little difference between them, and he spent most of the time with her worrying about the time that she would be away from him. Also like falling leaves, these memories seemed to blow away, unable to be caught to hold on to as a keepsake.<br /> <br /> == Study Questions ==<br /> #Who is it that the narrator believes Holly has married?<br /> #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 &quot;were under the wheels of the train&quot;?<br /> #Who turns out to be the woman that has gotten married?<br /> #What is Dr. Goldman's explanation for Holly's fit?<br /> #What is the real reason for Holly's fit?<br /> #Whose name replaces Mag Wildwood's on Holly's mailbox?<br /> #Holly mentions something of importance to the narrator, while she is talking about her feelings for Jose. What is it?<br /> #Holly says that she would rather have cancer than a what?<br /> #In your opinion, how does Capote relate to the narrator in real life as far as his relationship with Holly?<br /> #What name does Holly give the narrator after her brother dies?<br /> #What kind of boat does the narrator relate himself to? What kind of boat does he picture Holly as?<br /> #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?<br /> <br /> == External Resources ==<br /> *Cash, Matthew. [http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bcash/criticalanalysis.html A Travelin' Through the Pastures of the Sky: A Critical Analysis of &lt;i&gt;Breakfast at Tiffany's&lt;/i&gt;]. 1996.<br /> <br /> == Works Cited ==<br /> *Prior, Lily. &quot;''Breakfast At Tiffany's'' Review.&quot;<br /> 18 March 2006.&lt;http://www.jp41.dial.pipex.com/R735.HTML&gt;<br /> <br /> *Kimbofo. &quot;''At Breakfast Tiffany's'' Reviews.&quot;<br /> ''Reading Matters''. 17 January 2006. 18 March 2006.<br /> &lt;http://kimbofo.typepad.com/readingmatters/2006/01/breakfast_at_ti.html&gt;<br /> <br /> ----<br /> [[Breakfast at Tiffany's]]</div>

Rscot899 https://litwiki.org/index.php?title=Breakfast_at_Tiffany%27s&diff=6134 2006-03-21T14:45:56Z

<p>Rscot899: </p> <hr /> <div>==Factual Information==<br /> A [[novel]]/[[novella]] by American writer [[Truman Capote]] published in 1958 by Random House, Inc., New York.<br /> <br /> ==Study Guide==<br /> Below are the thirteen major sections of the [[novella]]. Since Capote did not use chapters, these are indicated by the double line break on the page. There might be more sections, or a more logical means of distinguishing them, but these arbitrary divisions will work for our purposes.<br /> <br /> #[[Breakfast at Tiffany's Section 1|Section one (3-14)]]<br /> #[[Breakfast at Tiffany's Section 2|Section two (14-47)]]<br /> #[[Breakfast at Tiffany's Section 3|Section three (47-53)]]<br /> #[[Breakfast at Tiffany's Section 4|Section four (53-55)]]<br /> #[[Breakfast at Tiffany's Section 5|Section five (55-63)]]<br /> #[[Breakfast at Tiffany's Section 6|Section six (63-72)]]<br /> #[[Breakfast at Tiffany's Section 7|Section seven (72-74)]]<br /> #[[Breakfast at Tiffany's Section 8|Section eight (74-85)]]<br /> #[[Breakfast at Tiffany's Section 9|Section nine (85-93)]]<br /> #[[Breakfast at Tiffany's Section 10|Section ten (93-97)]]<br /> #[[Breakfast at Tiffany's Section 11|Section eleven (97-104)]]<br /> #[[Breakfast at Tiffany's Section 12|Section twelve (104-109)]]<br /> #[[Breakfast at Tiffany's Section 13|Section thirteen (109-111)]]<br /> <br /> ==Characters==<br /> ===Capote/Narrator===<br /> <br /> ===Holly Golightly===<br /> <br /> ===Joe Bell===<br /> <br /> ==Major Themes==<br /> ===Delight in the Unorthodox===<br /> Plimpton writes that the theme in ''Breakfast at Tiffany’s'' is that there are special, strange gifted people in the world and they have to be treated with understanding (175). When something is unorthodox it breaks with convention or tradition. All of the characters in the novella ''Breakfast at Tiffany's'' took delight in unique unorthodox ways. Homosexuality was considered to be unorthodox in the fifties and some people even consider it to be unorthodox today.<br /> <br /> Holly Golightly was unorthodox by leaving her husband and by embracing homosexuality like she did. Tison Pugh writes, &quot;...we can see that Holly's friendships with gay men are one sign of her progressive sexual politics&quot; (2). Holly believed in things that were unconventional and unorthodox. Paul Levine writes that,&quot;...Holly too is a hard-headed romantic, a [http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=pragmatic pragmatic] [http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=idealist idealist]&quot; (351). Holly definitely took delight in her unorthodox ways. Not only did Holly Golightly take delight in her unorthodox ways, but the narrator also took delight in his unorthodox ways.<br /> <br /> The narrator was more content with just being himself than he was with fitting the mold. Holly Golightly says that all straight men either like baseball or horses, and in her apartment there are books about horses and baseball. The narrator goes over to the book shelf and pretends to be interested when he says, &quot;Pretending an interest in horseflesh and How to Tell It gave me sufficiently private opportunity for sizing Holly's friends&quot; (Capote 35). If the narrator had liked baseball he would have picked up a book on baseball instead of pretending he liked horses. In other words the narrator is gay, and he is not really concerned with other's thoughts. <br /> <br /> Joe Bell is also a different type of character. He owns a bar, pops tums like candy, and takes care of flowers. Joe Bell's hobbies are hockey players, [http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art4814.asp weimaraner dogs], and [http://math.boisestate.edu/GaS/ Gilbert and Sullivan] (Capote 4). The narrator even goes on to say that Joe Bell is related to either Gilbert or Sullivan. &quot;Since Sullivan is rumored to be have been a homosexual...the passage slyly hints that the bartender is part of Sullivan's family, a fellow gay man to his beloved composer&quot; (Tison 2). Joe Bell also &quot;arranges flowers with matronly care&quot; (Capote 5). In today's society a masculine straight man does not arrange flowers with matronly care. All three of the main characters took delight in their unorthodox ways.<br /> <br /> ===Quest for Home/Belonging===<br /> <br /> Holly Golightly is a pure example of someone that is untameable. It's no wonder how she got that way. Doc Golightly, her husband, says, &quot;Story was: their mother died of TB ([http://www.cdc.gov/nchstp/tb/faqs/qa.htm Tuberculosis]), and their papa done the same - and all the churren, a whole raft of 'em, they been sent off to live with different mean people&quot; (Capote 68). From that line it is obvious that Holly Golightly never really had a home. She appears to spend the rest of her time trying to find one.<br /> <br /> One home that Holly has is at Tiffany's. Holly says, &quot;It calms me down right away, the quietness and proud look of it; nothing bad could happen to you there, not with those kind of men in their nice suits, and that lovely smell of silver and alligator wallets. If I could find a real life place that made me feel like Tiffany's, then I'd buy some furniture and give the cat a name&quot; (Capote 40). Matthew Cash states that this scene shows Holly's innocence and search for a home (3).<br /> <br /> Holly spends much of her time trying to belong to something or someone while at the same time trying not to. Perhaps she had abandonment issues. &quot;On the first night that Holly came to visit the narrator in his appartment she ends up sleeping beside him, showing that Holly needs someone who is comforting instead of lusting toward her&quot; (Cash 4). Perhaps Holly just needed to feel a love that didn't require anything back of her. Holly was human and she desired love, but at the same time she retreated when the narrator asked her why she was crying. Holly jumps up and heads for the window while hollering, &quot;I hate snoops&quot; (Capote 27). Holly had a desire for a home and a place to belong, but she appeared to be very leary of it all.<br /> <br /> ===Never Love a Wild Thing===<br /> <br /> Holly Golightly considered herself to be wild. She gives Joe Bell this speach and she says, &quot;Never love a wild thing, Mr. Bell...That was Doc's mistake. He was always lugging home wild things. A hawk with a hurt wing. One time it was a full-grown bobcat with a broken leg. But you can't give your heart to a wild thing: the more you do, the stronger they get. Until they're strong enough to run into the woods. Or fly into a tree. then a taller tree. Then the sky. That's how you'll end up, Mr. Bell. If you let yourself love a wild thing. You'll end up looking at the sky&quot; (Capote 74).<br /> <br /> Holly goes on to say, &quot;Good luck: and believe me, dearest Doc - it's better to look at the sky than live there. Such an empty place; so vague. Just a country where the thunder goes and things disappear&quot; (Capote 74). In one sentence she is telling Joe Bell not to love a wild thing and in the next she is admitting how unhappy she is. In the beginning of the story Joe Bell admits his love for Holly when he says, &quot;Sure I loved her. But it wasn't that I wanted to touch her&quot; (Capote 9). Maybe Holly knew about Joe Bell's love and was trying to warn him not to love her. While Holly admitted that she was wild she also admitted that she was unhappy.<br /> <br /> ===Joy/Difficulty of Traveling===<br /> <br /> Holly Golightly is a traveler who is searching for somewhere to call home. She even goes so far as to say:&quot;...home is where you feel at home. I'm still looking,&quot; she says (Capote 102). Everything she does throughout the book is based on that very way she looks at life. &quot;I'll never get used to anything. Anybody that does, they might as well be dead&quot; (Capote 19). <br /> <br /> Holly only seems to find happiness for a short time and it is quickly followed by something that drives her away. She has bad memories of almost every step of the way. From her marriage to Doc in Texas to her many male callers in New York, there is always something that drives at her. <br /> <br /> Holly's age, inexperience, and lack of direction may contribute to her inability to be happy. Her age is revealed by the narrarator:&quot;I thought her anywhere between sixteen and thirty; as it turned out, she was shy two months of her nineteenth birthday.&quot;(Capote 12-13). Her inexperience and young age has her unsure what she really wants out of her life. Holly would finally come to realization after losing her no-name cat. And even at the end of the novel, she is still in search of home.<br /> <br /> ==Major Symbols==<br /> ===Tiffany's===<br /> <br /> Tiffany's is a jewelry store Holly feels is the best place for her to calm down and feel at home. She explains it as the cure for her &quot;mean reds&quot; to the narrarator:&quot;What I've found does the most good is just to get into a taxi and go to Tiffany's,&quot; Holly says (Capote 40).<br /> <br /> Tiffany's also symbolizes what Holly is searching for: a place she feels she belongs. A place she feels no harm can be done to her and she feels safe around men in particular.&quot;It calms me down right away, the quietness and the proud look of it; nothing very bad could happen to you there, not with those kind men in their nice suits, and that lovely smell of silver and alligator wallets&quot; (Capote 40).<br /> <br /> ===The &quot;Mean Reds&quot;===<br /> <br /> The &quot;mean reds&quot; was a reoccuring problem Holly has. The narrarator first associated the &quot;mean reds&quot; with the blues. Holly is quick to denounce that theory. &quot;No, the blues are because you're getting fat or maybe it's been raining too long. You're sad, that's all. But the mean reds are horrible. You're afraid and you sweat like hell, but you don't know what you're afraid of. Except something bad is going to happen, only you don't know what it is&quot;(Capote 40). The narrarator makes another attempt to give an explanation by calling it angst, claiming everyone feels that same way. Holly takes the suggestion of Rusty Trawler and smokes marijuana and took an aspirin.<br /> <br /> ===The Fat Lady===<br /> <br /> <br /> ===The Cat===<br /> <br /> <br /> ===The Bird Cage===<br /> <br /> <br /> ==Influences==<br /> <br /> ==Additional Resources==<br /> *Capote, Truman. &lt;em&gt;The Complete Stories of Truman Capote.&lt;/em&gt; New York: The Random House Publishing Group, 2004.<br /> <br /> *Clarke, Gerald. &lt;i&gt;Capote: A Biography&lt;/i&gt;. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1988.<br /> <br /> *Garsen, Helen S. &lt;i&gt;Truman Capote&lt;/i&gt;. New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Company, 1980.<br /> <br /> *Goyen, William. &quot;That Old Valentine Maker&quot;. New York Times Book Review November 1958:5,38.<br /> <br /> ==Works Cited==<br /> *Capote, Truman. ''Breakfast at Tiffany's''. New York: Vintage Books - A division of Random House, 1993.<br /> <br /> *Cash, Matthew. ''The Breakfast at Tiffany's Homepage''. 1996. University of Michigan. 14 March 2006. &lt;www.personal.umich.edu/~bcash/criticalanalysis.html&gt;<br /> <br /> *Levine, Paul. ''Book Review of Breakfeast at Tiffany's/Levine''. The Georgia Review.3/(1959): 350-352<br /> <br /> *Plimpton, George. ''Truman Capote: In Which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintances,and Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career''. New York: Doubleday Dell Publishing Group. 1997.<br /> <br /> *Pugh, Tison. ''Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's''. ''The Explicator''. 6/(2002): 51-53<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> [[Category:Literature]]</div>

Rscot899 https://litwiki.org/index.php?title=Breakfast_at_Tiffany%27s_Section_8&diff=5997 2006-03-20T03:46:10Z

<p>Rscot899: </p> <hr /> <div>== Summary ==<br /> Section eight of Truman Capote's &quot;Breakfast At Tiffany's&quot; begins with the title to a shocking newspaper clipping. It reads, &quot;Trawler marries fourth&quot; (74). The narrator reads this clip while riding the subway home from an unsuccessful job interwiew. He immidiately assumes that Rusty Trawler, a playboy that the narrator has come to loath, has taken Holly to be his fourth wife. His first wish after reading this portion of the article is to be underneath the wheels of the train. He justifies his wish by explaining the recent comings and goings in his life. His &quot;mean reds&quot;, as he puts it, come from many places at once. First of all, he admits that he has been recently fired from his job. The details of his dissmissal are &quot; too complicated to recount&quot; (75). Secondly, he has reason to believe that his draft board is persuing him in an effort to get him to join the military. He says, &quot;The idea of entering another form of disciplined life made me desperate&quot; (75). This causes his frustration to multiply because he cannot seem to find a job. In fact his unfruitful interview with the ''PM,'' a newspaper now closed down, is what he is returning from at the beginning of this section. Most obviously, he believes that Holly has married a man that he completely detests. His mounting jealousy causes him to admit that he does, in fact, love Holly. He also notes that his love for Holly is an identical love that he has experienced with an elderly colored cook and an entire family, probably friends, that he knew when he was younger. Upon reaching the station, he breaks down to his curiosity and buys a paper in order to read the entire article. Much to his surprise, Rusty did not marry Holly! He married Holly's room mate Mag Wildwood. His excitement that Holly is not married to Rusty causes his legs to shake so badly that he must ride a cab home instead of walking. <br /> <br /> The surprises seem to keep coming for the narrator when he finally reaches his apartment building. Madame Spanella is screaming in fear for the police to come. The narrator also notes quite a din comming from a higher floor. Madame Spanella raves, &quot; She is killing somebody! Somebody is killing her!&quot; (76). Instead of going for help the narrator bounds up the steps to the source of the noises which is, of course, Holly's door. After pounding the door with a fist, the noises subside, but no matter how many times he calls, Holly will not come to the door. He futilly throws himself at the door, trying to break in, until Jose Ybarra-Jager, Mag Wildwood's ex-fiance, arrives on the scene followed by a doctor. The narrator crossly notes that Jose opens the door to the apartment with his own key. Following the other two men inside, the narrator finds the apartment in disarray, the cat lapping up milk from the floor (the milk was spilled in the fray), and Holly standing, rigid on the bed. She is muttering an incoherrent description of her brother, Fred. The doctor quickly begins to vocally sooth Holly as well as injecting her with a sedative. Jose continues asking the doctor (in bad English) if &quot;Her only sickness is grief?&quot; (78). Annoyed with Jose's questions, he forcefully ejects the other two men from the room. Jose, in anger, chases the snooping Madame Spanella out of the room, and he almost repeats this action with the narrator. In the end though, Jose invites the narrator to sit with him and have drink which happens to be the only bottle that survived Holly's rampage. Through conversation, the narrator learns that all Jose is worried about is how people might think that he caused Holly to have such a terrible fit. Jose is a politician, and he is afraid of being defaced. Later, Jose finds a telegram on the floor that explains Holly's tantrum. The telegram is a message from Doc, Holly's husband, sent to inform Holly of her brother's death in the war. <br /> <br /> After that day, Holly seems to hybernate to the narrator. She ceases to talk about her brother(a once common occourance). She also stops calling the narrator Fred. She now re-dubs him &quot;Buster&quot;. He observes that Holly's hair gets darker and she puts on a lot of weight. On a positive note, Holly becomes quite a home maker. She purchases many classy items to decorate her apartment such as: tapestries, Gothic arm chairs, and several other ambiance producing items. Furthermore, the purchase of cookbooks led to Holly becoming a very good cook. Oddly enough though, she could only cook delecacies. When she tries to scramble eggs, she simply burns them. <br /> <br /> Jose, being a diplomat, works in Washington D.C. three days out of the week. While he is gone the narrator and Holly meet to go on walks or to go out to dinner. During a conversation, the narrator learns that Holly is six weeks pregnant. She then rambles on about how she wants to have nine children with Jose, and ceraselessly talks about how much she looks forward to moving with Jose to Rio. In fact the only regret that Holly mentions is that she wishes that she could have been a virgin for Jose. 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. &quot;If I were free to,...&quot; Holly continues, &quot; I would not pick Jose&quot; (82). The narrator, after hearing so much about Jose(more than he would like),begins to dislike Jose very much. He even stops saying Jose's name while he is speaking to Holly and simply refers to Jose as &quot; Him.&quot; Holly moves to a different subject and talks about giving up her horoscopes. She believes that this is an example of a good deed. She thinks that &quot; good things happen t0 those that are good&quot; (83). Later, on an outing, Holly observes ships sailing by and exclaims,&quot; one day, one of those ships would bring me(Holly) back, me and my nine Brazillion brats.&quot;(84) The narrator, tired of hearing about her &quot;brats&quot; and Jose , says &quot; Do shut up.&quot;(85) H e clearly felt left out;&quot; like a tug boat in drydock while she(Holly), glittery voyager of secure destination, steamed down the harbor with whistles whistling and confetti in the air&quot; (85).<br /> <br /> == Notes ==<br /> *'''&quot;The now defunct newspaper, ''PM''&quot;''' (75) - A left-wing daily newspaper in New York City, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PM_%28newspaper%29 ''PM''] stood for &quot;Picture Magazine,&quot; 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''.<br /> <br /> *'''&quot;A Parke-Bernet Auction&quot;''' (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.<br /> <br /> *'''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 &quot;yellow journalism&quot;] and waas a leader of the liberal wing of the Democratic party from 1896 to 1935.<br /> <br /> *'''Modern Library''' (80) - A division of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_House Randolph House Publishers]. Founded in 1917, it identified itself as &quot;The Modern Library of the World's Best Books.&quot;<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''Waring mixer''' (80) - [http://www.waringproducts.com Waring] is a leading manufacturer of small appliances for the home, food service, and laboratory industries.<br /> <br /> *'''Hausfrau''' (80) - Translated from German to English, &quot;housewife.&quot;<br /> <br /> *'''Outré''' (81) - Highly unconventional; eccentric or bizarre.<br /> <br /> *'''Terrapin''' (81) - An [http://images.google.com/images?q=terrapin&amp;hl=en amphibious reptile turtle] that can live in the water and on land.<br /> <br /> *'''&quot;Nero-ish novelties&quot;''' (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].<br /> <br /> *'''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 &quot;dry fruit,&quot; is an edible fruit borne by some species of the genus [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diospyros ''Diospyros''].<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> == Commentary ==<br /> Capote seems to have known someone in his life that he loved as much as the narrator loves Holly.&quot; He describes this woman in such a way that you get the sense he has moulded her on someone that intrigued him, that held some allure or had an aura of mysticism that left a deep impression.&quot;(Kimbofo) On the other hand, he may have intended to spark a female movement of freedom to do what they want.&quot;''Breakfast at Tiffany's'' inspired women to pack their bags and seek their fortunes in New York all over the country.&quot;(Cash)If this was his goal, then he certainly achieved it! In any case, he portrays very well his anguish upon &quot;learning&quot; that Holly has married Rusty. 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 &quot;party girl-about-town and exuberant phony&quot;(Prior) that he knew becomes a mostly content stay-at-home-wife. <br /> <br /> 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 &quot;non-rat&quot; lover in her life. This is an easy statement to believe, as most early referances to Holly's love life make strong referances to prostitution. Taking men to the powder room and coming out with money, for example. She labels all of her past lovers &quot;rats&quot;, but she forces herself to see an allure in them. &quot;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.&quot;(Cash)<br /> <br /> This stage of the story is one of the narrator's last chances to tell Holly how he really feels. So why dosen'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. Though his &quot;plan&quot; 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.<br /> <br /> Regardless of her true intentions, this section ends with the narrator giving a wonderful metaphore.&quot; So the days, the last days, blow about in memory...all alike as leaves...&quot;(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 like. The narrator feels the same way about his final days with Holly. He can tell little difference between them, and he spent most of the time with her worrying about the time that she would be away from him. Also like falling leaves, these memories seemed to blow away, unable to be caught to hold on to as a keepsake.<br /> <br /> == Study Questions ==<br /> #Who is it that the narrator believes Holly has married?<br /> #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 &quot;were under the wheels of the train&quot;?<br /> #Who turns out to be the woman who got married?<br /> #What is Dr. Goldman's explanation for Holly's fit?<br /> #What is the real reason for Holly's fit?<br /> #Whose name replaces Mag Wildwood's on Holly's mailbox?<br /> #Holly mentions something of importance to the narrator, while she is talking about her feelings for Jose. What is it?<br /> #Holly says that she would rather have cancer than a what?<br /> <br /> <br /> == External Resources ==<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> == Works Cited ==<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> ----<br /> [[Breakfast at Tiffany's]]</div>

Rscot899 https://litwiki.org/index.php?title=Breakfast_at_Tiffany%27s_Section_8&diff=5979 2006-03-20T03:34:36Z

<p>Rscot899: </p> <hr /> <div>== Summary ==<br /> Section eight of Truman Capote's &quot;BreakfastAt Tiffany's&quot; begins with the title to a shocking newspaper clipping. It reads, &quot;Trawler marries fourth.&quot;(74) The narrator reads this clip while riding the subway home from an unsuccessful job interwiew. He immidiately assumes that Rusty Trawler, a playboy that the narrator has come to loath, has taken Holly to be his fourth wife. His first wish after reading this portion of the article is to be underneath the wheels of the train. He justifies his wish by explaining the recent comings and goings in his life. His &quot;mean reds&quot;, as he puts it, come from many places at once. First of all, he admits that he has been recently fired from his job. The details of his dissmissal are &quot; too complicated to recount.&quot;(75) Secondly, he has reason to believe that his his draft board is persuing him in an effort to get him to join the military. He said, &quot; The idea of entering another form of disciplined life made me desperate.&quot;(75) This causes his frustration to multiply because he can not seem to find a job. In fact his unfruitful interview with the ''PM'', a newspaper now closed down, is what he is returning from at the beginning of this section. Most obviously, he believes that Holly has married a man that he completely detests. His mounting jealousy causes him to admit that he does, in fact, love Holly. He also notes that his love for Holly is an identical love that he has experienced with an elderly colored cook and an entire family, probably friends, that he knew when he was younger. Upon reaching the station, he breaks down to his curiosity and buys a paper in order to read the entire article. Much to his surprise, Rusty did not marry Holly! He married Holly's room mate Mag Wildwood. His excitement that Holly is not married to Rusty causes his legs to shake so badly that he must ride a cab home instead of walking. <br /> <br /> The surprises seem to keep coming for the narrator when he finally reaches his apartment building. Madame Spanella is screaming in fear for the police to come. The narrator also notes quite a din comming from a higher floor. Madame Spanella raves, &quot; She is killing somebody! Somebody is killing her!&quot;(76) Instead of going for help the narrator bounds up the steps to the source of the noises which is, of course, Holly's door. After pounding the door with a fist, the noises subside, but no matter how many times he calls, Holly will not come to the door. He futilly throws himself at the door, trying to break in, until Jose Ybarra-Jager, Mag Wildwood's ex-fiance, arrives on the scene followed by a doctor. The narrator crossly notes that Jose opens the door to the apartment with his own key. Following the other two men inside, the narrator finds the apartment in disarray, the cat lapping up milk from the floor( the milk was spilled in the fray), and Holly standing, rigid on the bed. She is muttering an incoherrent description of her brother, Fred. The doctor quickly begins to vocally sooth Holly as well as injecting her with a sedative. Jose continues asking the doctor(in bad English) if &quot;Her only sickness is grief?&quot;(78) Annoyed with Jose's questions, he forcefully ejects the other two men from the room. Jose, in anger, chases the snooping Madame Spanella out of the room, and he almost repeats this action with the narrator. In the end though, Jose invites the narrator to sit with him and have drink which happens to be the only bottle that survived Holly's rampage. Through conversation, the narrator learns that all Jose is worried about is how people might think that he caused Holly to have such a terrible fit. Jose is a politician, and he is afraid of being defaced. Later, Jose finds a telegram on the floor that explains Holly's tantrum. The telegram is a message from Doc, Holly's husband, sent to inform Holly of her brother's death in the war. <br /> <br /> After that day, Holly seems to hybernate to the narrator. She ceases to talk about her brother(a once common occourance). She also stops calling the narrator Fred. She now re-dubs him &quot;Buster&quot;. He observes that Holly's hair gets darker and she puts on a lot of weight. On a positive note, Holly becomes quite a home maker. She purchases many classy items to decorate her apartment such as: tapestries, Gothic arm chairs, and several other ambiance producing items. Furthermore, the purchase of cookbooks led to Holly becoming a very good cook. Oddly enough though, she could only cook delecacies. When she tries to scramble eggs, she simply burns them. <br /> <br /> Jose, being a diplomat, works in Washington D.C. three days out of the week. While he is gone the narrator and Holly meet to go on walks or to go out to dinner. During a conversation, the narrator learns that Holly is six weeks pregnant. She then rambles on about how she wants to have nine children with Jose, and ceraselessly talks about how much she looks forward to moving with Jose to Rio. In fact the only regret that Holly mentions is that she wishes that she could have been a virgin for Jose. 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. &quot;If I were free to,...&quot; Holly continues, &quot; I would not pick Jose.&quot;(82) The narrator, after hearing so much about Jose(more than he would like),begins to dislike Jose very much. He even stops saying Jose's name while he is speaking to Holly and simply refers to Jose as &quot; Him.&quot; Holly moves to a different subject and talks about giving up her horoscopes. She believes that this is an example of a good deed. She thinks that &quot; good things happen t0 those that are good.&quot;(83) Later, on an outing, Holly observes ships sailing by and exclaims,&quot; one day, one of those ships would bring me(Holly) back, me and my nine Brazillion brats.&quot;(84) The narrator, tired of hearing about her &quot;brats&quot; and Jose , says &quot; Do shut up.&quot;(85) H e clearly felt left out;&quot; like a tug boat in drydock while she(Holly), glittery voyager of secure destination, steamed down the harbor with whistles whistling and confetti in the air.&quot;(85)<br /> <br /> == Notes ==<br /> *'''&quot;The now defunct newspaper, ''PM''&quot;''' (75) - A left-wing daily newspaper in New York City, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PM_%28newspaper%29 ''PM''] stood for &quot;Picture Magazine,&quot; 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''.<br /> <br /> *'''&quot;A Parke-Bernet Auction&quot;''' (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.<br /> <br /> *'''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 &quot;yellow journalism&quot;] and waas a leader of the liberal wing of the Democratic party from 1896 to 1935.<br /> <br /> *'''Modern Library''' (80) - A division of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_House Randolph House Publishers]. Founded in 1917, it identified itself as &quot;The Modern Library of the World's Best Books.&quot;<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''Waring mixer''' (80) - [http://www.waringproducts.com Waring] is a leading manufacturer of small appliances for the home, food service, and laboratory industries.<br /> <br /> *'''Hausfrau''' (80) - Translated from German to English, &quot;housewife.&quot;<br /> <br /> *'''Outré''' (81) - Highly unconventional; eccentric or bizarre.<br /> <br /> *'''Terrapin''' (81) - An [http://images.google.com/images?q=terrapin&amp;hl=en amphibious reptile turtle] that can live in the water and on land.<br /> <br /> *'''&quot;Nero-ish novelties&quot;''' (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].<br /> <br /> *'''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 &quot;dry fruit,&quot; is an edible fruit borne by some species of the genus [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diospyros ''Diospyros''].<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> == Commentary ==<br /> Capote seems to have known someone in his life that he loved as much as the narrator loves Holly.&quot; He describes this woman in such a way that you get the sense he has moulded her on someone that intrigued him, that held some allure or had an aura of mysticism that left a deep impression.&quot;(Kimbofo) On the other hand, he may have intended to spark a female movement of freedom to do what they want.&quot;''Breakfast at Tiffany's'' inspired women to pack their bags and seek their fortunes in New York all over the country.&quot;(Cash)If this was his goal, then he certainly achieved it! In any case, he portrays very well his anguish upon &quot;learning&quot; that Holly has married Rusty. 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 &quot;party girl-about-town and exuberant phony&quot;(Prior) that he knew becomes a mostly content stay-at-home-wife. <br /> <br /> 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 &quot;non-rat&quot; lover in her life. This is an easy statement to believe, as most early referances to Holly's love life make strong referances to prostitution. Taking men to the powder room and coming out with money, for example. She labels all of her past lovers &quot;rats&quot;, but she forces herself to see an allure in them. &quot;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.&quot;(Cash)<br /> <br /> This stage of the story is one of the narrator's last chances to tell Holly how he really feels. So why dosen'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. Though his &quot;plan&quot; 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.<br /> <br /> Regardless of her true intentions, this section ends with the narrator giving a wonderful metaphore.&quot; So the days, the last days, blow about in memory...all alike as leaves...&quot;(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 like. The narrator feels the same way about his final days with Holly. He can tell little difference between them, and he spent most of the time with her worrying about the time that she would be away from him. Also like falling leaves, these memories seemed to blow away, unable to be caught to hold on to as a keepsake.<br /> <br /> == Study Questions ==<br /> #Who is it that the narrator believes Holly has married?<br /> #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 &quot;were under the wheels of the train&quot;?<br /> #Who turns out to be the woman who got married?<br /> #What is Dr. Goldman's explanation for Holly's fit?<br /> #What is the real reason for Holly's fit?<br /> #Whose name replaces Mag Wildwood's on Holly's mailbox?<br /> #Holly mentions something of importance to the narrator, while she is talking about her feelings for Jose. What is it?<br /> #Holly says that she would rather have cancer than a what?<br /> <br /> <br /> == External Resources ==<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> == Works Cited ==<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> ----<br /> [[Breakfast at Tiffany's]]</div>

Rscot899 https://litwiki.org/index.php?title=Breakfast_at_Tiffany%27s_Section_8&diff=5978 2006-03-19T21:44:13Z

<p>Rscot899: </p> <hr /> <div>== Summary ==<br /> Section eight of Truman Capote's &quot;BreakfastAt Tiffany's&quot; begins with the title to a shocking newspaper clipping. It reads, &quot;Trawler marries fourth.&quot;(74) The narrator reads this clip while riding the subway home from an unsuccessful job interwiew. He immidiately assumes that Rusty Trawler, a playboy that the narrator has come to loath, has taken Holly to be his fourth wife. His first wish after reading this portion of the article is to be underneath the wheels of the train. He justifies his wish by explaining the recent comings and goings in his life. His &quot;mean reds&quot;, as he puts it, come from many places at once. First of all, he admits that he has been recently fired from his job. The details of his dissmissal are &quot; too complicated to recount.&quot;(75) Secondly, he has reason to believe that his his draft board is persuing him in an effort to get him to join the military. He said, &quot; The idea of entering another form of disciplined life made me desperate.&quot;(75) This causes his frustration to multiply because he can not seem to find a job. In fact his unfruitful interview with the ''PM'', a newspaper now closed down, is what he is returning from at the beginning of this section. Most obviously, he believes that Holly has married a man that he completely detests. His mounting jealousy causes him to admit that he does, in fact, love Holly. He also notes that his love for Holly is an identical love that he has experienced with an elderly colored cook and an entire family, probably friends, that he knew when he was younger. Upon reaching the station, he breaks down to his curiosity and buys a paper in order to read the entire article. Much to his surprise, Rusty did not marry Holly! He married Holly's room mate Mag Wildwood. His excitement that Holly is not married to Rusty causes his legs to shake so badly that he must ride a cab home instead of walking. <br /> <br /> The surprises seem to keep coming for the narrator when he finally reaches his apartment building. Madame Spanella is screaming in fear for the police to come. The narrator also notes quite a din comming from a higher floor. Madame Spanella raves, &quot; She is killing somebody! Somebody is killing her!&quot;(76) Instead of going for help the narrator bounds up the steps to the source of the noises which is, of course, Holly's door. After pounding the door with a fist, the noises subside, but no matter how many times he calls, Holly will not come to the door. He futilly throws himself at the door, trying to break in, until Jose Ybarra-Jager, Mag Wildwood's ex-fiance, arrives on the scene followed by a doctor. The narrator crossly notes that Jose opens the door to the apartment with his own key. Following the other two men inside, the narrator finds the apartment in disarray, the cat lapping up milk from the floor( the milk was spilled in the fray), and Holly standing, rigid on the bed. She is muttering an incoherrent description of her brother, Fred. The doctor quickly begins to vocally sooth Holly as well as injecting her with a sedative. Jose continues asking the doctor(in bad English) if &quot;Her only sickness is grief?&quot;(78) Annoyed with Jose's questions, he forcefully ejects the other two men from the room. Jose, in anger, chases the snooping Madame Spanella out of the room, and he almost repeats this action with the narrator. In the end though, Jose invites the narrator to sit with him and have drink which happens to be the only bottle that survived Holly's rampage. Through conversation, the narrator learns that all Jose is worried about is how people might think that he caused Holly to have such a terrible fit. Jose is a politician, and he is afraid of being defaced. Later, Jose finds a telegram on the floor that explains Holly's tantrum. The telegram is a message from Doc, Holly's husband, sent to inform Holly of her brother's death in the war. <br /> <br /> After that day, Holly seems to hybernate to the narrator. She ceases to talk about her brother(a once common occourance). She also stops calling the narrator Fred. She now re-dubs him &quot;Buster&quot;. He observes that Holly's hair gets darker and she puts on a lot of weight. On a positive note, Holly becomes quite a home maker. She purchases many classy items to decorate her apartment such as: tapestries, Gothic arm chairs, and several other ambiance producing items. Furthermore, the purchase of cookbooks led to Holly becoming a very good cook. Oddly enough though, she could only cook delecacies. When she tries to scramble eggs, she simply burns them. <br /> <br /> Jose, being a diplomat, works in Washington D.C. three days out of the week. While he is gone the narrator and Holly meet to go on walks or to go out to dinner. During a conversation, the narrator learns that Holly is six weeks pregnant. She then rambles on about how she wants to have nine children with Jose, and ceraselessly talks about how much she looks forward to moving with Jose to Rio. In fact the only regret that Holly mentions is that she wishes that she could have been a virgin for Jose. 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. &quot;If I were free to,...&quot; Holly continues, &quot; I would not pick Jose.&quot;(82) The narrator, after hearing so much about Jose(more than he would like),begins to dislike Jose very much. He even stops saying Jose's name while he is speaking to Holly and simply refers to Jose as &quot; Him.&quot; Holly moves to a different subject and talks about giving up her horoscopes. She believes that this is an example of a good deed. She thinks that &quot; good things happen t0 those that are good.&quot;(83) Later, on an outing, Holly observes ships sailing by and exclaims,&quot; one day, one of those ships would bring me(Holly) back, me and my nine Brazillion brats.&quot;(84) The narrator, tired of hearing about her &quot;brats&quot; and Jose , says &quot; Do shut up.&quot;(85) H e clearly felt left out;&quot; like a tug boat in drydock while she(Holly), glittery voyager of secure destination, steamed down the harbor with whistles whistling and confetti in the air.&quot;(85)<br /> <br /> == Notes ==<br /> *'''&quot;The now defunct newspaper, ''PM''&quot;''' (75) - A left-wing daily newspaper in New York City, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PM_%28newspaper%29 ''PM''] stood for &quot;Picture Magazine,&quot; 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''.<br /> <br /> *'''&quot;A Parke-Bernet Auction&quot;''' (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.<br /> <br /> *'''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 &quot;yellow journalism&quot;] and waas a leader of the liberal wing of the Democratic party from 1896 to 1935.<br /> <br /> *'''Modern Library''' (80) - A division of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_House Randolph House Publishers]. Founded in 1917, it identified itself as &quot;The Modern Library of the World's Best Books.&quot;<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''Waring mixer''' (80) - [http://www.waringproducts.com Waring] is a leading manufacturer of small appliances for the home, food service, and laboratory industries.<br /> <br /> *'''Hausfrau''' (80) - Translated from German to English, &quot;housewife.&quot;<br /> <br /> *'''Outré''' (81) - Highly unconventional; eccentric or bizarre.<br /> <br /> *'''Terrapin''' (81) - An [http://images.google.com/images?q=terrapin&amp;hl=en amphibious reptile turtle] that can live in the water and on land.<br /> <br /> *'''&quot;Nero-ish novelties&quot;''' (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].<br /> <br /> *'''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 &quot;dry fruit,&quot; is an edible fruit borne by some species of the genus [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diospyros ''Diospyros''].<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> == Commentary ==<br /> Capote seems to have known someone in his life that he loved as much as the narrator loves Holly.&quot; He describes this woman in such a way that you get the sense he has moulded her on someone that intrigued him, that held some allure or had an aura of mysticism that left a deep impression.&quot;(Kimbofo) On the other hand, he may have intended to spark a female movement of freedom to do what they want.&quot;''Breakfast at Tiffany's'' inspired women to pack their bags and seek their fortunes in New York all over the country.&quot;(Cash)If this was his goal, then he certainly achieved it! In any case, he portrays very well his anguish upon &quot;learning&quot; that Holly has married Rusty. 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 &quot;party girl-about-town and exuberant phony&quot;(Prior) that he knew becomes a mostly content stay-at-home-wife. <br /> <br /> 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 &quot;non-rat&quot; lover in her life. This is an easy statement to believe, as most early referances to Holly's love life make strong referances to prostitution. Taking men to the powder room and coming out with money, for example. She labels all of her past lovers &quot;rats&quot;, but she forces herself to see an allure in them. &quot;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.&quot;(Cash)<br /> <br /> This stage of the story is one of the narrator's last chances to tell Holly how he really feels. So why dosen'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. Though his &quot;plan&quot; 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.<br /> <br /> Regardless of her true intentions, this section ends with the narrator giving a wonderful metaphore.&quot; So the days, the last days, blow about in memory...all alike as leaves...&quot;(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 like. The narrator feels the same way about his final days with Holly. He can tell little difference between them, and he spent most of the time with her worrying about the time that she would be away from him. Also like falling leaves, these memories seemed to blow away, unable to be caught to hold on to as a keepsake.<br /> <br /> == Study Questions ==<br /> #What is the name of the man Holly has married?<br /> #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 &quot;were under the wheels of the train&quot;?<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> == External Resources ==<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> == Works Cited ==<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> ----<br /> [[Breakfast at Tiffany's]]</div>

Rscot899 https://litwiki.org/index.php?title=Breakfast_at_Tiffany%27s_Section_8&diff=5953 2006-03-19T21:42:08Z

<p>Rscot899: </p> <hr /> <div>== Summary ==<br /> Section eight of Truman Capote's &quot;BreakfastAt Tiffany's&quot; begins with the title to a shocking newspaper clipping. It reads, &quot;Trawler marries fourth.&quot;(74) The narrator reads this clip while riding the subway home from an unsuccessful job interwiew. He immidiately assumes that Rusty Trawler, a playboy that the narrator has come to loath, has taken Holly to be his fourth wife. His first wish after reading this portion of the article is to be underneath the wheels of the train. He justifies his wish by explaining the recent comings and goings in his life. His &quot;mean reds&quot;, as he puts it, come from many places at once. First of all, he admits that he has been recently fired from his job. The details of his dissmissal are &quot; too complicated to recount.&quot;(75) Secondly, he has reason to believe that his his draft board is persuing him in an effort to get him to join the military. He said, &quot; The idea of entering another form of disciplined life made me desperate.&quot;(75) This causes his frustration to multiply because he can not seem to find a job. In fact his unfruitful interview with the ''PM'', a newspaper now closed down, is what he is returning from at the beginning of this section. Most obviously, he believes that Holly has married a man that he completely detests. His mounting jealousy causes him to admit that he does, in fact, love Holly. He also notes that his love for Holly is an identical love that he has experienced with an elderly colored cook and an entire family, probably friends, that he knew when he was younger. Upon reaching the station, he breaks down to his curiosity and buys a paper in order to read the entire article. Much to his surprise, Rusty did not marry Holly! He married Holly's room mate Mag Wildwood. His excitement that Holly is not married to Rusty causes his legs to shake so badly that he must ride a cab home instead of walking. <br /> <br /> The surprises seem to keep coming for the narrator when he finally reaches his apartment building. Madame Spanella is screaming in fear for the police to come. The narrator also notes quite a din comming from a higher floor. Madame Spanella raves, &quot; She is killing somebody! Somebody is killing her!&quot;(76) Instead of going for help the narrator bounds up the steps to the source of the noises which is, of course, Holly's door. After pounding the door with a fist, the noises subside, but no matter how many times he calls, Holly will not come to the door. He futilly throws himself at the door, trying to break in, until Jose Ybarra-Jager, Mag Wildwood's ex-fiance, arrives on the scene followed by a doctor. The narrator crossly notes that Jose opens the door to the apartment with his own key. Following the other two men inside, the narrator finds the apartment in disarray, the cat lapping up milk from the floor( the milk was spilled in the fray), and Holly standing, rigid on the bed. She is muttering an incoherrent description of her brother, Fred. The doctor quickly begins to vocally sooth Holly as well as injecting her with a sedative. Jose continues asking the doctor(in bad English) if &quot;Her only sickness is grief?&quot;(78) Annoyed with Jose's questions, he forcefully ejects the other two men from the room. Jose, in anger, chases the snooping Madame Spanella out of the room, and he almost repeats this action with the narrator. In the end though, Jose invites the narrator to sit with him and have drink which happens to be the only bottle that survived Holly's rampage. Through conversation, the narrator learns that all Jose is worried about is how people might think that he caused Holly to have such a terrible fit. Jose is a politician, and he is afraid of being defaced. Later, Jose finds a telegram on the floor that explains Holly's tantrum. The telegram is a message from Doc, Holly's husband, sent to inform Holly of her brother's death in the war. <br /> <br /> After that day, Holly seems to hybernate to the narrator. She ceases to talk about her brother(a once common occourance). She also stops calling the narrator Fred. She now re-dubs him &quot;Buster&quot;. He observes that Holly's hair gets darker and she puts on a lot of weight. On a positive note, Holly becomes quite a home maker. She purchases many classy items to decorate her apartment such as: tapestries, Gothic arm chairs, and several other ambiance producing items. Furthermore, the purchase of cookbooks led to Holly becoming a very good cook. Oddly enough though, she could only cook delecacies. When she tries to scramble eggs, she simply burns them. <br /> <br /> Jose, being a diplomat, works in Washington D.C. three days out of the week. While he is gone the narrator and Holly meet to go on walks or to go out to dinner. During a conversation, the narrator learns that Holly is six weeks pregnant. She then rambles on about how she wants to have nine children with Jose, and ceraselessly talks about how much she looks forward to moving with Jose to Rio. In fact the only regret that Holly mentions is that she wishes that she could have been a virgin for Jose. 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. &quot;If I were free to,...&quot; Holly continues, &quot; I would not pick Jose.&quot;(82) The narrator, after hearing so much about Jose(more than he would like),begins to dislike Jose very much. He even stops saying Jose's name while he is speaking to Holly and simply refers to Jose as &quot; Him.&quot; Holly moves to a different subject and talks about giving up her horoscopes. She believes that this is an example of a good deed. She thinks that &quot; good things happen t0 those that are good.&quot;(83) Later, on an outing, Holly observes ships sailing by and exclaims,&quot; one day, one of those ships would bring me(Holly) back, me and my nine Brazillion brats.&quot;(84) The narrator, tired of hearing about her &quot;brats&quot; and Jose , says &quot; Do shut up.&quot;(85) H e clearly felt left out;&quot; like a tug boat in drydock while she(Holly), glittery voyager of secure destination, steamed down the harbor with whistles whistling and confetti in the air.&quot;(85)<br /> <br /> == Notes ==<br /> *'''&quot;The now defunct newspaper, ''PM''&quot;''' (75) - A left-wing daily newspaper in New York City, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PM_%28newspaper%29 ''PM''] stood for &quot;Picture Magazine,&quot; 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''.<br /> <br /> *'''&quot;A Parke-Bernet Auction&quot;''' (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.<br /> <br /> *'''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 &quot;yellow journalism&quot;] and waas a leader of the liberal wing of the Democratic party from 1896 to 1935.<br /> <br /> *'''Modern Library''' (80) - A division of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_House Randolph House Publishers]. Founded in 1917, it identified itself as &quot;The Modern Library of the World's Best Books.&quot;<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''Waring mixer''' (80) - [http://www.waringproducts.com Waring] is a leading manufacturer of small appliances for the home, food service, and laboratory industries.<br /> <br /> *'''Hausfrau''' (80) - Translated from German to English, &quot;housewife.&quot;<br /> <br /> *'''Outré''' (81) - Highly unconventional; eccentric or bizarre.<br /> <br /> *'''Terrapin''' (81) - An [http://images.google.com/images?q=terrapin&amp;hl=en amphibious reptile turtle] that can live in the water and on land.<br /> <br /> *'''&quot;Nero-ish novelties&quot;''' (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].<br /> <br /> *'''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 &quot;dry fruit,&quot; is an edible fruit borne by some species of the genus [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diospyros ''Diospyros''].<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> *'''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.<br /> <br /> == Commentary ==<br /> Capote seems to have known someone in his life that he loved as much as the narrator loves Holly.&quot; He describes this woman in such a way that you get the sense he has moulded her on someone that intrigued him, that held some allure or had an aura of mysticism that left a deep impression.&quot;(Kimbofo) On the other hand, he may have intended to spark a female movement of freedom to do what they want.&quot;''Breakfast at Tiffany's'' inspired women to pack their bags and seek their fortunes in New York all over the country.&quot;(Cash)If this was his goal, then he certainly achieved it! In any case, he portrays very well his anguish upon &quot;learning&quot; that Holly has married Rusty. 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 &quot;party girl-about-town and exuberant phony&quot;(Prior) that he knew becomes a mostly content stay-at-home-wife. <br /> <br /> 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 &quot;non-rat&quot; lover in her life. This is an easy statement to believe, as most early referances to Holly's love life make strong referances to prostitution. Taking men to the powder room and coming out with money, for example. She labels all of her past lovers &quot;rats&quot;, but she forces herself to see an allure in them. &quot;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.&quot;(Cash)<br /> <br /> This stage of the story is one of the narrator's last chances to tell Holly how he really feels. So why dosen'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. Though his &quot;plan&quot; 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.<br /> <br /> Regardless of her true intentions, this section ends with the narrator giving a wonderful metaphore.&quot; So the days, the last days, blow about in memory...all alike as leaves...&quot;(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 like. The narrator feels the same way about his final days with Holly. He can tell little difference between them, and he spent most of the time with her worrying about the time that she would be away from him. Also like falling leaves, these memories seemed to blow away, unable to be caught to hold on to as a keepsake.<br /> <br /> == Study Questions ==<br /> 1. What is the name of the man Holly has married?<br /> <br /> 2.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 &quot;were under the wheels of the train&quot;?<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> == External Resources ==<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> == Works Cited ==<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> ----<br /> [[Breakfast at Tiffany's]]</div>

Rscot899 https://litwiki.org/index.php?title=Breakfast_at_Tiffany%27s_Section_13&diff=5992 2006-03-19T21:33:14Z

<p>Rscot899: </p> <hr /> <div>== Summary ==<br /> The narrator notices the decreasing mention of Holly in the news and finds himself longing to be with her once again. He reads in the headlines of a newspaper about Sally Tomato's death and how Holly is believed to be in Rio. Holly's &quot;abandoned possessions&quot; are sold, and a man name Quaintance Smith moves into her old apartment. Little is heard of from Holly, until the narrator receives a postcard in the spring. It appears she has met someone new and is looking for somewhere to live. He wishes he had an address in which to write Holly to tell her that he found her cat. <br /> == Notes ==<br /> '''Rio''' - Rio de Janeiro, a state and a city in Southeastern Brazil.<br /> <br /> '''Sing Sing''' - A prison in New York.<br /> <br /> * brownstone-perfers to old brick apartment where Holly once lived.<br /> <br /> '''Spanish Harlem''' - Area urbanized by the addition of brownstones and apartment buildings in the 1880's. Predominantly Hispanic, it is also referred to as East Harlem, found in New York City.<br /> == Commentary ==<br /> The last section of the novella focuses on the narrator's last regrets concerning Holly. The gossip in the paper dies down and he goes through the months of winter hoping to hear from her. In the time that has passed since she left, a man named Quaintance Smith has moved into her old apartment. He receives far better treatment from Madame Spanella that Holly did. He hosts parties and has the occasional black eye, for which Spanella aids him with &quot;filet mignon&quot; (110). <br /> <br /> The novella ends with the narrator's hope that Holly has finally found a home, a venture in which her cat has been successful. He regrets most that he cannot reach Holly to tell her about the cat. He expresses that whether it be an &quot;African hut or whatever,&quot; he hopes Holly &quot;arrived somewhere [she] belonged&quot; (111). <br /> <br /> == Study Questions ==<br /> 1. What is the name of the new tenant in Holly's old apartment?<br /> <br /> 2. What happened to her belongings?<br /> <br /> 3. What is the one thing he wishes to tell Holly the most?<br /> <br /> 4. Who found Holly's cat?<br /> <br /> 5. How did Sally Tomato die?<br /> <br /> 6. What day did Sally Tomato die?<br /> <br /> 7. What does the narrator promise Holly?<br /> <br /> 8. Where did Sally Tomato die?<br /> <br /> 9. Where did Holly write from?<br /> <br /> 10. What does the narrator hope Holly will find?<br /> <br /> == External Resources ==<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> == Works Cited ==</div>

Rscot899 https://litwiki.org/index.php?title=Breakfast_at_Tiffany%27s_Section_13&diff=5951 2006-03-19T21:08:05Z

<p>Rscot899: </p> <hr /> <div>== Summary ==<br /> The narrator notices the decreasing mention of Holly in the news and finds himself longing to be with her once again. He reads in the headlines of a newspaper about Sally Tomato's death and how Holly is believed to be in Rio. Holly's &quot;abandoned possessions&quot; are sold, and a man name Quaintance Smith moves into her old apartment. Little is heard of from Holly, until the narrator receives a postcard in the spring. It appears she has met someone new and is looking for somewhere to live. He wishes he had an address in which to write Holly to tell her that he found her cat. <br /> == Notes ==<br /> '''Rio''' - Rio de Janeiro, a state and a city in Southeastern Brazil.<br /> <br /> '''Sing Sing''' - A prison in New York.<br /> <br /> * brownstone-perfers to old brick apartment where Holly once lived.<br /> <br /> '''Spanish Harlem''' - Area urbanized by the addition of brownstones and apartment buildings in the 1880's. Predominantly Hispanic, it is also referred to as East Harlem, found in New York City.<br /> == Commentary ==<br /> <br /> <br /> == Study Questions ==<br /> 1. What is the name of the new tenant in Holly's old apartment?<br /> <br /> 2. What happened to her belongings?<br /> <br /> 3. What is the one thing he wishes to tell Holly the most?<br /> <br /> 4. Who found Holly's cat?<br /> <br /> 5. How did Sally Tomato die?<br /> <br /> 6. What day did Sally Tomato die?<br /> <br /> 7. What does the narrator promise Holly?<br /> <br /> 8. Where did Sally Tomato die?<br /> <br /> 9. Where did Holly write from?<br /> <br /> 10. What does the narrator hope Holly will find?<br /> <br /> == External Resources ==<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> == Works Cited ==</div>

Rscot899 https://litwiki.org/index.php?title=Breakfast_at_Tiffany%27s_Section_13&diff=5950 2006-03-19T20:54:36Z

<p>Rscot899: </p> <hr /> <div>== Summary ==<br /> The narrator notices the decreasing mention of Holly in the news and finds himself longing to be with her once again. He reads in the headlines of a newspaper about Sally Tomato's death and how Holly is believed to be in Rio. Holly's &quot;abandoned possessions&quot; are sold, and a man name Quaintance Smith moves into her old apartment. Little is heard of from Holly, until the narrator receives a postcard in the spring. It appears she has met someone new and is looking for somewhere to live. He wishes he had an address in which to write Holly to tell her that he found her cat. <br /> == Notes ==<br /> '''Rio''' - Rio de Janeiro, a state and a city in Southeastern Brazil.<br /> <br /> '''Sing Sing''' - A prison in New York.<br /> <br /> * brownstone-perfers to old brick apartment where Holly once lived.<br /> <br /> == Commentary ==<br /> <br /> <br /> == Study Questions ==<br /> 1. What is the name of the new tenant in Holly's old apartment?<br /> <br /> 2. What happened to her belongings?<br /> <br /> 3. What is the one thing he wishes to tell Holly the most?<br /> <br /> 4. Who found Holly's cat?<br /> <br /> 5. How did Sally Tomato die?<br /> <br /> 6. What day did Sally Tomato die?<br /> <br /> 7. What does the narrator promise Holly?<br /> <br /> 8. Where did Sally Tomato die?<br /> <br /> 9. Where did Holly write from?<br /> <br /> 10. What does the narrator hope Holly will find?<br /> <br /> == External Resources ==<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> == Works Cited ==</div>

Rscot899 https://litwiki.org/index.php?title=Breakfast_at_Tiffany%27s_Section_13&diff=5949 2006-03-19T20:50:34Z

<p>Rscot899: </p> <hr /> <div>== Summary ==<br /> The narrator notices the decreasing mention of Holly in the news and finds himself longing to be with her once again. He reads in the headlines of a newspaper about Sally Tomato's death and how Holly is believed to be in Rio. Holly's &quot;abandoned possessions&quot; are sold, and a man name Quaintance Smith moves into her old apartment. Little is heard of from Holly, until the narrator receives a postcard in the spring. It appears she has met someone new and is looking for somewhere to live. He wishes he had an address in which to write Holly to tell her that he found her cat. <br /> == Notes ==<br /> '''Rio''' - Rio de Janeiro, a state and a city in Southeastern Brazil.<br /> <br /> '''Sing Sing''' - A prison in New York.<br /> <br /> * brownstone-perfers to old brick apartment where Holly once lived.<br /> <br /> == Commentary ==<br /> <br /> <br /> == Study Questions ==<br /> 1. What is the name of the new tenant in Holly's old apartment?<br /> <br /> 2. What happened to her belongings?<br /> <br /> 3. What are the two main things he wishes to tell Holly?<br /> <br /> 4. Who found Holly's cat?<br /> <br /> 5. How did Sally Tomato die?<br /> <br /> 6. What day did Sally Tomato die?<br /> <br /> 7. How much did the boy try to sell his cat for?<br /> <br /> 8. What does the narrator promise Holly?<br /> <br /> 9. Where did Sally Tomato die?<br /> <br /> 10. Where did Holly write from?<br /> <br /> 11. What does the narrator hope Holly gets?<br /> <br /> == External Resources ==<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> == Works Cited ==</div>

Rscot899 https://litwiki.org/index.php?title=Breakfast_at_Tiffany%27s_Section_13&diff=5948 2006-03-19T20:49:03Z

<p>Rscot899: </p> <hr /> <div>== Summary ==<br /> The narrator notices the decreasing mention of Holly in the news and longs to be with her once again. He reads in the headlines of a newspaper about Sally Tomato's death and how Holly is believed to be in Rio. Holly's &quot;abandoned possessions&quot; are sold, and a man name Quaintance Smith moves into her old apartment. Little is heard of from Holly, until the narrator receives a postcard in the spring. It appears she has met someone new and is looking for somewhere to live. He wishes he had an address in which to write Holly to tell her that he found her cat. <br /> == Notes ==<br /> '''Rio''' - Rio de Janeiro, a state and a city in Southeastern Brazil.<br /> <br /> '''Sing Sing''' - A prison in New York.<br /> <br /> * brownstone-perfers to old brick apartment where Holly once lived.<br /> <br /> == Commentary ==<br /> <br /> <br /> == Study Questions ==<br /> 1. What is the name of the new tenant in Holly's old apartment?<br /> <br /> 2. What happened to her belongings?<br /> <br /> 3. What are the two main things he wishes to tell Holly?<br /> <br /> 4. Who found Holly's cat?<br /> <br /> 5. How did Sally Tomato die?<br /> <br /> 6. What day did Sally Tomato die?<br /> <br /> 7. How much did the boy try to sell his cat for?<br /> <br /> 8. What does the narrator promise Holly?<br /> <br /> 9. Where did Sally Tomato die?<br /> <br /> 10. Where did Holly write from?<br /> <br /> 11. What does the narrator hope Holly gets?<br /> <br /> == External Resources ==<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> == Works Cited ==</div>

Rscot899 https://litwiki.org/index.php?title=Breakfast_at_Tiffany%27s_Section_13&diff=5947 2006-03-19T20:48:29Z

<p>Rscot899: </p> <hr /> <div>== Summary ==<br /> The narrator notices the decreasing mention of Holly in the news and longs for her to be with him once again. He reads in the headlines of a newspaper about Sally Tomato's death and how Holly is believed to be in Rio. Holly's &quot;abandoned possessions&quot; are sold, and a man name Quaintance Smith moves into her old apartment. Little is heard of from Holly, until the narrator receives a postcard in the spring. It appears she has met someone new and is looking for somewhere to live. He wishes he had an address in which to write Holly to tell her that he found her cat. <br /> == Notes ==<br /> '''Rio''' - Rio de Janeiro, a state and a city in Southeastern Brazil.<br /> <br /> '''Sing Sing''' - A prison in New York.<br /> <br /> * brownstone-perfers to old brick apartment where Holly once lived.<br /> <br /> == Commentary ==<br /> <br /> <br /> == Study Questions ==<br /> 1. What is the name of the new tenant in Holly's old apartment?<br /> <br /> 2. What happened to her belongings?<br /> <br /> 3. What are the two main things he wishes to tell Holly?<br /> <br /> 4. Who found Holly's cat?<br /> <br /> 5. How did Sally Tomato die?<br /> <br /> 6. What day did Sally Tomato die?<br /> <br /> 7. How much did the boy try to sell his cat for?<br /> <br /> 8. What does the narrator promise Holly?<br /> <br /> 9. Where did Sally Tomato die?<br /> <br /> 10. Where did Holly write from?<br /> <br /> 11. What does the narrator hope Holly gets?<br /> <br /> == External Resources ==<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> == Works Cited ==</div>

Rscot899 https://litwiki.org/index.php?title=Breakfast_at_Tiffany%27s_Section_13&diff=5830 2006-03-14T15:02:46Z

<p>Rscot899: </p> <hr /> <div>== Summary ==<br /> <br /> <br /> == Notes ==<br /> <br /> <br /> == Commentary ==<br /> <br /> <br /> == Study Questions ==<br /> <br /> <br /> == External Resources ==<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> == Works Cited ==</div>

Rscot899 https://litwiki.org/index.php?title=Breakfast_at_Tiffany%27s_Section_13&diff=5784 2006-03-14T15:01:40Z

<p>Rscot899: </p> <hr /> <div>== Summary ==<br /> <br /> <br /> == Notes ==<br /> <br /> <br /> == Commentary ==<br /> <br /> <br /> == Study Questions ==</div>

Rscot899 https://litwiki.org/index.php?title=Breakfast_at_Tiffany%27s_Section_13&diff=5782 2006-03-14T14:59:20Z

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Rscot899 https://litwiki.org/index.php?title=Hubris&diff=6816 2006-02-16T19:49:45Z

<p>Rscot899: </p> <hr /> <div>Excessive pride. A concept introduced in Greece, Holman and Harmon state that it is the &quot;overweening pride or insolence that results in the misfortune of the [[protagonist]] of a [[tragedy]]&quot; (250). Humans who suffer from ''hubris'', or ''hybris'', often believe that they can accomplish more than the universe itself will allow. Roger Fowler defines ''hubris'' as &quot;a man's denial of his own mortality&quot; (198). Indeed it seems that the only way for a person to obtain such pride is to lose all sense of fear for his own wellbeing. After all, if a person has no fear at all, then he may have a perfect pride in himself, and in some ways, may even believe that he is perfect. Baldick asserts that &quot;''hubris'' is the Greek word for 'insolence' or 'affront',&quot; often times making it &quot;the pride that comes before the fall&quot; (260). Even though an overpowering sense of pride is healthy for one's self esteem, others might consider such pride insolence, or a negative trait.<br /> <br /> The error of judgment &quot;through which the fortunes of the [[hero]] of a [[tragedy]] are reversed&quot; (Holman 217). &quot;Aristotle attributes [[hamartia]] (a tragic flaw or shortcoming) to the tragic [[hero]]&quot; (Barnett-Berman-Burto 112). This &quot;tragic [[hero]] ought to be a man whose misfortune comes to him, not through vice or depravity, but by some error&quot; (Cudden 301). Most tragedies end in the downfall of the [[hero]] due to his ''hubris''. In the most famous examples, the Greek tragedies, a man who is overly confident or ambitious offends the gods. Therefore, they torture him with unfortunate events that eventually lead to his demise. According to Holman, ''hubris'' is what &quot;leads the [[protagonist]] to break a moral law or ignore a divine warning with calamitous results&quot; (226). For example, in Shakespeare's ''Macbeth'', Macbeth takes matters into his own hands after the first of the witches' three prophecies comes true. With the strong urging of his wife, he breaks a moral law when he decides to murder King Duncan in his quest to attain the crown. Little does he know, he is starting the chain of events, revealing his transition from good to evil, that ultimately leads to his downfall. In the case of &quot;To Build a Fire&quot; by Jack London, the man, believed to be a chechaquo, ignores the advice of others, including the &quot;old-timer at Sulfur Creek,&quot; and relies on himself to reach a Yukon camp following a less-traveled path in temperatures significantly below freezing. At the story's end, the man dies as a result of his ignorance and his ''hubris''.<br /> <br /> <br /> ==Works Cited==<br /> *Baldick, Chris. from ''The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms''. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. 260 p. [http://lionreference.chadwyck.com/searchFulltext.do?id=R00792748&amp;divLevel=0&amp;queryId=../session/1139527324_19169&amp;trailId=108B6A61A91&amp;area=ref&amp;forward=critref_ft]<br /> *Barnett,Sylvan, Morton Berman, and William Burto. ''A Dictionairy of Literary, Dramatic, and Cinematic Terms''. 2nd ed. Little, Brown and Company(Inc.) 1971.<br /> *Cuddon, J. A. ''A Dictionary of Literary Terms''. Revised ed. Penguin Books, 1979.<br /> *Fowler,Roger ed.''A Dictionary of Modern Critical Terms''. Rouletage &amp; Kegan Paul Ltd. 1973.<br /> *Harmon, William and C. Hugh Holman.'' A Handbook to Literature''. 9th ed. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 2003.<br /> *Holman, C. Hugh. ''A Handbook to Literature''. Ed. Addison Hibbard and William F. Thrall. Revised ed. New York: The Odyssey Press, 1960.</div>

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