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== Commentary == | == Commentary == | ||
In this scene Holly Golightly's husband, Doc, finds her. The narrator finds out that Holly Golightly's real name is Lulamae and that she married Doc at the age of fourteen. Holly never divorced Doc. She says,"Divorce him? Of course I never divorced him. I was only fourteen, for God's sake. It couldn't have been legal" (Capote 72). | In this scene Holly Golightly's husband, Doc, finds her. The narrator finds out that Holly Golightly's real name is Lulamae and that she married Doc at the age of fourteen. Holly never divorced Doc. She says,"Divorce him? Of course I never divorced him. I was only fourteen, for God's sake. It couldn't have been legal" (Capote 72). Holly gets really drunk and then tells the narrator and Joe Bell what had happened the night before. Holly slept with Doc and justified the act by saying, "Well, I had to. Doc really loves me, you know. and I love him. He may have looked old and tacky to ''you''. But you don't know the sweetness of him. the confidence he can give to birds and brats and fragile things like that. Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot" (Capote 73). After that Holly and Doc went to the bus station, and Doc thought that Holly was going to leave with him. Holly does not leave with Doc. Instead she realizes that she is the same person now as she was when she was fourteen. She calls her problems the mean reds. "Capote uses some of his best dramatic irony in the novel with the characterization of Doc Golightly. Up until the last minute when he is ready to board a bus bound for Tulip, he truly believes that he has convinced Lulamae to come home with him. But as the reader and the narrator both know, she can't, it would be a total contradiction to everything she believes in" (Cash 4). Holly and the narrator continue to drink as Holly tells Joe Bell to never love a wild thing. Holly then admits to her unhappiness by saying, "...it's better to look at the sky than live there" (Capote 74). | ||
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