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==Major Themes== | ==Major Themes== | ||
===Delight in the Unorthodox=== | ===Delight in the Unorthodox=== | ||
Plimpton writes that the theme in ''Breakfast at Tiffany’s'' is that there are special, strange gifted people in the world and they have to be treated with understanding (175). When something is unorthodox it breaks with convention or tradition. All of the characters in the novella ''Breakfast at Tiffany's'' took delight in unique unorthodox ways. Homosexuality was considered to be unorthodox in the fifties and some people even consider it to be unorthodox today. Holly Golightly was was unorthodox by leaving her husband and by embracing homosexuality like she did. Paul Levine writes that,"...Holly too is a hard-headed romantic, a[http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=pragmatic pragmatic] idealist" (351). | Plimpton writes that the theme in ''Breakfast at Tiffany’s'' is that there are special, strange gifted people in the world and they have to be treated with understanding (175). When something is unorthodox it breaks with convention or tradition. All of the characters in the novella ''Breakfast at Tiffany's'' took delight in unique unorthodox ways. Homosexuality was considered to be unorthodox in the fifties and some people even consider it to be unorthodox today. Holly Golightly was was unorthodox by leaving her husband and by embracing homosexuality like she did. Paul Levine writes that,"...Holly too is a hard-headed romantic, a [http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=pragmatic pragmatic] idealist" (351). | ||
===Quest for Home/Belonging=== | ===Quest for Home/Belonging=== | ||