Breakfast at Tiffany's: Difference between revisions

Holly Golightly considered herself to be wild.  She gives Joe Bell this speach and she says, "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" (Capote 74).  Holly goes on to say, "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" (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, "Sure I loved her. But it wasn't that I wanted to touch her" (Capote 9).  Maybe Holly knew about Joe Bell's love and was trying to warn him.