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On a Monday in October, 1943 the narrator, and Holly Golightly started off their day by drinking Manhattan’s, and champagne cocktails at Joe Bell’s bar. Later they walked down to Fifth Avenue to watch a military parade passing by. The narrator and Holly ate lunch in Central Park, and walked around the park spending a lot of time at an old boathouse site on the lake. The narrator and Holly avoided the zoo because Holly dislikes seeing anything in a cage. | |||
The narrator tells Holly stories of his childhood and how he had a difficult childhood. Holly talks about her childhood, telling stories of her happy childhood, at which point the narrator asks if her stories are true then did she really run away at fourteen. Holly responds by rubbing her nose and stating that the stories were made up, only because she didn’t want to seem like she was competing with the narrator over who had a worse childhood. The narrator and Holly stop discussing their childhood, and Holly wants to go looking for peanut butter for her brother Fred. The narrator and Holly spend the rest of the afternoon going through a multitude of stores searching for peanut butter, due to the war it is difficult to find. | |||
As the narrator and Holly pass a Woolworth’s, Holly pulls the narrator into the store and talks him into stealing a Halloween mask. The two of them put on masks while the sales lady was occupied, and walked out, they ran a few blocks away, not because they were being chased, but from the exhilaration of stealing. Holly tells the narrator how she has had to steal in the past just to get by, and how she likes to steal things once in a while just to stay in practice. | |||
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Revision as of 19:24, 14 March 2006
Summary
On a Monday in October, 1943 the narrator, and Holly Golightly started off their day by drinking Manhattan’s, and champagne cocktails at Joe Bell’s bar. Later they walked down to Fifth Avenue to watch a military parade passing by. The narrator and Holly ate lunch in Central Park, and walked around the park spending a lot of time at an old boathouse site on the lake. The narrator and Holly avoided the zoo because Holly dislikes seeing anything in a cage.
The narrator tells Holly stories of his childhood and how he had a difficult childhood. Holly talks about her childhood, telling stories of her happy childhood, at which point the narrator asks if her stories are true then did she really run away at fourteen. Holly responds by rubbing her nose and stating that the stories were made up, only because she didn’t want to seem like she was competing with the narrator over who had a worse childhood. The narrator and Holly stop discussing their childhood, and Holly wants to go looking for peanut butter for her brother Fred. The narrator and Holly spend the rest of the afternoon going through a multitude of stores searching for peanut butter, due to the war it is difficult to find.
As the narrator and Holly pass a Woolworth’s, Holly pulls the narrator into the store and talks him into stealing a Halloween mask. The two of them put on masks while the sales lady was occupied, and walked out, they ran a few blocks away, not because they were being chased, but from the exhilaration of stealing. Holly tells the narrator how she has had to steal in the past just to get by, and how she likes to steal things once in a while just to stay in practice.