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Section eight of Truman Capote's <i> | Section eight of Truman Capote's <i>Breakfast at Tiffany's</i> begins with the title to a shocking newspaper clipping. It reads, "Trawler marries fourth" (74). The narrator reads this clip while riding the subway home from an unsuccessful job interview with “PM”, a newspaper that is now closed. He immediately assumes that Rusty Trawler has taken Holly to be his fourth wife. This immediately triggers the infamous “mean reds”. After going through an emotional battle with himself on the train ride, he bought a paper and finished the headline. It ends up Rusty married Mag, not Holly! | ||
When he reaches his apartment building, Madame Spanella is screaming for the police to come, and he hears a lot of noise coming from Holly’s apartment. The narrator goes and bangs on Holly’s door and everything seems to quite down, but no matter how many times he calls, Holly will not come to the door. He tries to break it down, until Jose Ybarra-Jager, Mag Wildwood's ex-fiancé, arrives with a doctor. Jose opens the apartment door with his own key and the trio proceeds in. They find the apartment in complete disarray. The cat is lapping up milk from the floor, and Holly standing, rigid on the bed. She is muttering an incoherent description of her brother, Fred. The doctor begins to soothe Holly and inject her with a sedative. Jose continues asks the doctor if "Her only sickness is grief?" (78). With this question, the doctor kicks both Jose and the narrator out of the room. Out of anger, Jose kicks Madame Spanella out and he almost repeats this action with the narrator. Instead Jose invites the narrator to sit with him and have a drink, which happens to be the only bottle that survived Holly's rampage. They find the telegram that induced Holly’s tantrum saying that Fred was killed in action. Later on Holly gives the narrator the name “Buster”. | When he reaches his apartment building, Madame Spanella is screaming for the police to come, and he hears a lot of noise coming from Holly’s apartment. The narrator goes and bangs on Holly’s door and everything seems to quite down, but no matter how many times he calls, Holly will not come to the door. He tries to break it down, until Jose Ybarra-Jager, Mag Wildwood's ex-fiancé, arrives with a doctor. Jose opens the apartment door with his own key and the trio proceeds in. They find the apartment in complete disarray. The cat is lapping up milk from the floor, and Holly standing, rigid on the bed. She is muttering an incoherent description of her brother, Fred. The doctor begins to soothe Holly and inject her with a sedative. Jose continues asks the doctor if "Her only sickness is grief?" (78). With this question, the doctor kicks both Jose and the narrator out of the room. Out of anger, Jose kicks Madame Spanella out and he almost repeats this action with the narrator. Instead Jose invites the narrator to sit with him and have a drink, which happens to be the only bottle that survived Holly's rampage. They find the telegram that induced Holly’s tantrum saying that Fred was killed in action. Later on Holly gives the narrator the name “Buster”. | ||