Breakfast at Tiffany's Section 6: Difference between revisions

Previously, Holly and the narrator had a fight and the narrator decides to leave the birdcage that Holly had given him as a gift by her apartment door. This symbolizes that he wants to cut ties with her, at least at that moment in the story. Later he finds the birdcage outside with the rest of the garbage. He “rescues” the birdcage from being thrown away, but he is still angry. The narrator and Holly go a while without talking. Then one day, the narrator notices a “provocative man” lurking around the brownstone, and looking at Holly’s card. After the man follows the narrator for several blocks to a bar, the narrator talks to this man and learns that this is Holly’s husband, and her name is really Lulamae Barnes.  

The man's name is Doc Golightly. He had found Lulamae (Holly) and her brother trying to steal food from him in Tulip, Texas.  He learned that both of their parents had died from Tuberculosis and that all of the children, including Lulamae (Holly) and Fred had been sent to live with mean people. He took in Lulamae and her brother and allowed them to live with he and his four children on his farm.  He later married Lulamae when she was fourteen and told the narrator that she was very "plump and happy" and did not understand why she would have just "run off" the way that she did.  Doc Golightly had obtained her current address from her brother who was in the Army and had heard from her in recent months.  At the end of this section, the narrator meets Holly at her front door as she is leaving to go out.  When he calls her by the name "Lulamae", she believes that Fred is there and looks for him only to find Doc coming up the stairs.  They hug and talk briefly before the narrator "squeezes past them to return to his own apartment.

Doc Golightly tells the narrator he needs a friend. In the beginning the narrator assumes that the man is Holly's father. "You're Holly's father." (Capote 66). The narrator starts to laugh because of "nerves". Doc pleads with the narrator to be his friend and "let her know I am here." (70). The narrator is eager to reunite Doc with Holly for his own personal gain. He wants Holly to be embrassed in front of her friends. The narrator starts to feel "ashamed" of his "anticipations" about the meeting. Doc is nervous and wonders if he looks ok to meet his wife. Although, Holly was expecting her brother Fred, her reaction to seeing Doc Golightly was very surprising. She acted very calm and not at all ashamed to see her husband. Her disappoint was the fact that he wasn't Fred.