Breakfast at Tiffany's Section 8: Difference between revisions

Section eight begins with the title to a shocking newspaper clipping. It reads, "Trawler marries fourth" (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, laer reads that Rusty has married Mag, not Holly!   

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 he is not able to go in until Jose Ybarra-Jager, Mag Wildwood's ex-fiancé, arrives with a doctor and opens the door with his key. The apartment is in complete disarray, and Holly is standing rigid on the bed, 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 "her sickness is only grief" (78) before 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 invites the narrator to sit with him and have a drink. 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 "Fred."

Jose moves in with Holly, replacing Mag as her roommate, and Holly stops caring so much about her appearance. "Her hair darkened, she put on weight. She became rather careless about her clothes..." (80). However, the narrator describes her as seeming "more content, altogether happier than [he'd] ever seen her" (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. 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, insisting that she is in love with him. Later, though, she says that Jose is not her idea of a perfect man. She tells the narrator "If I were free to, I would not pick Jose" (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 "Him."