Breakfast at Tiffany's Section 12: Difference between revisions

'''Squall''' (104) - A brief sudden violent windstorm, often accompanied by rain or snow.

'''Inclement''' (105) - severe, unrelenting; cruel

'''Poignant''' (105) - Neat, skillful

'''Lark''' (105) - A carefree or spirited adventure.

'''bon voyage''' (106)- French, literally translated as "good journey".

'''oompahpah''' (106)- A rhythmic bass accompaniment, that repeats.

'''rhapsodic''' (106)- Emotional, extravagant music.

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Harlem'''Spanish Harlem'''](107)- Also known as East Harlem or El Barrio, a neighborhood in northeastern part of the borough of Manhattan, one of the largest predominantly Hispanic communities in New York City. Since the 1950s, it has been populated by a large number of people of Puerto Rican descent, sometimes called Nuyoricans. In recent years the neighborhood has also become home to many Mexican American immigrants.

[http://lionreference.chadwyck.com/searchFulltext.do?id=R01659106&divLevel=0&queryId=../session/1140713136_4425&area=abell&forward=critref_ft '''Nancy's Landing'''] (105)- Fictional town created by Capote. "Nancy's Landing," serves as Capote's code phrase for a gay resort, a make-believe, southern Fire Island or Provincetown. Thus, the narrator's coy rejoinder that the reader should "[n]ever mind why" he made the trip appears as a subtle move to direct attention away from his self-confession.

'''Hope Chest''' (106)- A chest used by a young woman for clothing and household goods, such as linens and silver, in anticipation of marriage.

'''Slap dash''' (107) - In a reckless haphazard manner; hasty and careless

'''The fat woman''' (109) - Death