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Throughout the entire novella one theme keeps popping up. The theme is love. "''Breakfast at Tiffany's'' is a love story-of a different nature. it is concerned with all forms of love: sexual, homosexual, asexual, perhaps even spirital" (Levine 352). Almost every other page contains an expression of a different type of love or a definition of what love should be. Section seven deals mostly with the pain and regret that love can cause. Doc is a character that can break a reader's heart. Even Holly Golightly felt bad for Doc, "Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot. I've always remembered Doc in my prayers..." (Capote 73). Truman Capote created a masterpiece that everyone can relate to. | Throughout the entire novella one theme keeps popping up. The theme is love. "''Breakfast at Tiffany's'' is a love story-of a different nature. it is concerned with all forms of love: sexual, homosexual, asexual, perhaps even spirital" (Levine 352). Almost every other page contains an expression of a different type of love or a definition of what love should be. Section seven deals mostly with the pain and regret that love can cause. Doc is a character that can break a reader's heart. Even Holly Golightly felt bad for Doc, "Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot. I've always remembered Doc in my prayers..." (Capote 73). Truman Capote created a masterpiece that everyone can relate to. | ||
The entire scene in section seven takes place in Joe Bell's bar. Holly is drinking a little, and she is giving up some personal information about the previous evening. Why did Holly feel comfortable with Joe Bell and the narrator? What ties them together? Tison Pugh writes, "Critics have long recognized that Holly's friendships with the narrator and Joe Bell are asexual, but it is imperative to note the queer reasons for the platonic nature of these relationships" (2). The reason Holly is comfortable with Joe Bell and the narrator is because they are both gay. Joe Bell's bar is also a gay bar. Readers know this by the descriptions given in the novella. The bar is hidden from view and has mirrored windows (Capote 5). "Gay bars did not advertise themselves...in the 1950's...Mirror windows allow patrons to see outside but do not allow passersby to look in; to this day many gay bars have such mirror windows to protect the privacy of their patrons" (Pugh 2). | |||
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