Breakfast at Tiffany's: Difference between revisions

Holly Golightly is a pure example of someone that is untameable.  It's no wonder how she got that way.  Doc Golightly, her husband, says, "Story was: their mother died of TB (Tuberculosis), and their papa done the same - and all the churren, a whole raft of 'em, they been sent off to live with different mean people" (Capote 68).  From that line it is obvious that Holly Golightly never really had a home.  She appears to spend the rest of her time trying to find one.  One home that Holly has is at Tiffany's.  Holly says, "It calms me down right away, the quietness and proud look of it; nothing bad could happen to you there, not with those kind of men in their nice suits, and that lovely smell of silver and alligator wallets.  If I could find a real life place that made me feel like Tiffany's, then I'd buy some furniture and give the cat a name" (Capote 40).  Matthew Cash states that this scene shows Holly's innocence and search for a home (3).  Holly spends much of her time trying to belong to something or someone while at the same time trying not to.  Perhaps she had abandonment issues.  "On the first night that Holly came to visit the narrator in his appartment she ends up sleeping beside him, showing that Holly needs someone who is comforting instead of lusting toward her" (Cash 4).  Perhaps Holly just needed to feel a love that didn't require anything back of her.  Holly was human and she desired love, but at the same time she retreated when the narrator asked her why she was crying.  Holly jumps up and heads for the window while hollering, "I hate snoops" (Capote 27).  Holly had a desire for a home and a place to belong, but she appeared to be very leary of it all.