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 *'''pig-English''' (7-8) — Short for "pidgin": a hybrid English. Pidgin is new language which develops in situations where speakers of different languages need to communicate but don't share a common language, in this case English and an aboriginal tongue.
-*''coloratura'' (11) — A type of soprano; also a type of singing which pertains to great feats of agility — fast singing, high singing, trills, embellishments, etc.
+*'''coloratura''' (11) — A type of soprano; also a type of singing which pertains to great feats of agility — fast singing, high singing, trills, embellishments, etc.
 ==Commentary==
 The unnamed narrator, matured greatly as a writer since knowing Holly, has aged fifteen years since he has seen Holly Golightly and takes place in the present, in October, the fall of the year. Most of the [[novella]] is a reminiscence by the narrator of the time he knew Holly Golightly and her influence on his life. Both he and Joe Bell are getting old, and the narrator has become a realist, one who has experience with life — perhaps a bit cynical. Joe, however, wants to believe that Holly has been to Africa — that she is living the jet-setting life that he can share vicariously. To Joe, Holly is the celebrity on the cover of ''People''; he longs to share in her life, even if it's from a distance.
-The narrator's tale centers around Holly Golightly. Her name suggests an unattached, unconventional, ephemeral wanderer, in pursuit of that feeling of happiness that one would have on eating breakfast at Tiffany's (Nance 65). Perhaps the goal or the dream might not be as important as how she pursues it, capturing the hearts of the people she encounters, like she has the narrator and Joe Bell. She is, perhaps, the dreamer —the romantic — part of the narrator that has left him fifteen years hence. The narrator is now a cold observer of the world around him; he has perhaps lost that sense of wonder that he had when Holly had been a part of his life. He greatly admires her, and at the beginning of the novel, he longs to capture something that he seems to have lost from his past: his own breakfast at Tiffany's (Nance 122-23).
+The narrator's tale centers around Holly Golightly. Her name suggests an unattached, unconventional, ephemeral wanderer, in pursuit of that feeling of happiness that one would have on eating breakfast at Tiffany's (Nance 65). Perhaps the goal or the dream might not be as important as how she pursues it, capturing the hearts of the people she encounters, like she has the narrator and Joe Bell. She is, perhaps, the dreamer — the romantic — part of the narrator that has left him fifteen years hence. The narrator is now a cold observer of the world around him; he has perhaps lost that sense of wonder that he had when Holly had been a part of his life. He greatly admires her, and at the beginning of the novel, he longs to capture something that he seems to have lost from his past: his own breakfast at Tiffany's (Nance 122-23).
 While Holly is just mentioned in the opening section of <i>BaT</i>, Joe Bell is described in detail. It seems, opines Tison Pugh, that Joe, like the narrator, is probably homosexual (51-53). However, this observation does not seem to be as important as seeming desperation to recapture something that Holly represents for him. He maintains that his desire for her is not sexual, so it seems to suggest something vital and alive that Joe's anonymous bar does not provide. He and the narrator are heading toward death, and Joe wants what he sees in Holly: "a wild and homeless love of freedom" (Hassan 18).