Breakfast at Tiffany's: Difference between revisions

Holly Golightly considered herself to be wild.  She gives Joe Bell this speach and she says, "Never love a wild thing, Mr. Bell...That was Doc's mistake.  He was always lugging home wild things.  A hawk with a hurt wing.  One time it was a full-grown bobcat with a broken leg.  But you can't give your heart to a wild thing: the more you do, the stronger they get. Until they're strong enough to run into the woods.  Or fly into a tree.  then a taller tree.  Then the sky.  That's how you'll end up, Mr. Bell.  If you let yourself love a wild thing.  You'll end up looking at the sky" (Capote 74). Holly goes on to say, "Good luck: and believe me, dearest Doc - it's better to look at the sky than live there. Such an empty place; so vague.  Just a country where the thunder goes and things disappear" (Capote 74).  In one sentence she is telling Joe Bell not to love a wild thing and in the next she is admitting how unhappy she is.  In the beginning of the story Joe Bell admits his love for Holly when he says, "Sure I loved her. But it wasn't that I wanted to touch her" (Capote 9).  Maybe Holly knew about Joe Bell's love and was trying to warn him not to love her.  While Holly admitted that she was wild she also admitted that she was unhappy.