Breakfast at Tiffany's Section 2: Difference between revisions

As promised, Holly stops ringing Mr. Yunioshi's doorbell and begins to ring the protagonist's. Although, the first few times Holly rang the bell he assumed someone was in trouble, he grew accustomed to the sound. The protagonist sees Holly in various places around town.  One night he sees her in "21" at a table with four men.  Another night he sees her outside of P.J. Clarke's Saloon with a group of Australian soldiers dancing her around while singing "Waltzing Matilda."  The protagonist still has yet to actually make an acquaintance with Holly until a cool autumn night in September.  He finds her outside of his window hiding from a man, whom she claims to be a "biter." The protagonist and Holly carry on a conversation, and he reads her some of his writing, which she criticizes. She then tells him of her visits to see Sally Tomato at Sing Sing. When Holly notices that it is four-thirty in the morning, she asks if she can sleep in the protagonist's bed with him. He pretends to be asleep, and Holly begins to speak, but not to the protagonist. "Poor Fred, Where are you, Fred? Because it's cold. There's snow in the wind" (27). The protagonist can feel her tears, but when he asks her why she is crying, she is startled and says, "I ''hate'' snoops."(27) and climbs back out onto the fire escape.  

The next morning, the protagonist discovers a Charles & Co. basket with Holly's card outside his door. She asks for his forgiveness for the previous night and states that she would not bother him again. He leaves a bunch of violets and the reply "Please do" at her door. He does not hear from her until he reminds her of her weekly visit to Sing Sing and, as a sign of her gratitude, she invites him over for a drink. When he goes to her apartment, he is greeted by O.J. Berman, a Hollywood actor's agent who supposedly "discovered" Holly. O.J tells the narrator that he feels Holly is a phony but he believes she is a "real phony"(30) because she believes everything that she says. The protagonist also gets his first look at Rutherfurd "Rusty" Trawler. He descibes him as a middle aged man that never lost his baby fat. He also gets to meet Mag Wildwood for the first time. She is a young woman standing six feet tall, and has a stuttering problem. Mag seems to demand all the attention in the room, until she leaves the room, Holly makes rude comments about her while she is gone. "It's really very sad. And so mysterious. You'd think it would show more. But heaven knows, she ''looks'' healthy. So, well, ''clean''. "This makes the other guests lose interest in Mag immediately, which Holly had been counting on. When Mag returns, she is so shocked at the sudden lack of attention that she begins to take it out on everyone else before "sliding to the floor, where she sat humming" (46). As the guests of the party begin to leave Holly asks the narrator to escort Mag to a taxi, but before he can try Mag passes out landing face first on the floor. He, instead, gives her a pillow and leaves her there to sleep it off.