Breakfast at Tiffany's Section 8: Difference between revisions

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 quiet 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 through it. They find the apartment in complete disarray. The cat is lapping up milk from the floor, and Holly is standing rigid on the bed. She is muttering an incoherent description of someone, whom the narrator assumes is Rusty Trawler, but he later discovers it is actually of her brother, Fred. The doctor begins to soothe Holly and injects her with a sedative.  Jose continuously asks the doctor if "her sickness is only 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 of the apartment and 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.  Jose then shows the narrator the telegram that induced Holly’s tantrum. It is from Doc Golightly and says that Fred was killed in action.  Because of this, Holly stops calling the narrator "Fred."