Breakfast at Tiffany's
“Breakfast at Tiffany’s” by Truman Capote
Author
Truman Capote (1924 New Orleans-1984 L.A.) was a story writer, novelist and playwright originated from poor background. He loved to be surrounded by the famous and rich and it was often told that Holly Golightly resembles her creator. She shares Capote’s philosophies as well as his fears and anxieties.
Setting
Breakfast at Tiffany’s is set in Manhattan’s Upper East East Side during the final years of second World War.
Plot summary of „Breakfast at Tiffany’s“
The heroine of the short novel Holly Golightly has become Capote’s best-known creation. It was published in 1958, however it’s 1943 in the book.
While the novel focuses upon Holly, the story is told from the point of view of the unnamed narrator, a now very successful writer.
He the, the first-person narrator, gets back to the place where he lived approximately ten years ago and had a friendship with his neighbour the devil-may-care playgirl.
The frame story is that the writer recalls all Holly’s experiences.
He tells how shortly after he moves in the upper East-side apartment house he notices Holly and is fascinated with her from the start, her late hours, partying, friends, the way she looks. The nineteen year old is often in an admirer’s company
They get to know each other when one evening she crawls through his window from the fire escape fleeing from a boyfriend.
Thenceforward she calls him “Fred”, because he reminds her of her brother. He is delighted by her charm and despite the deceptions and secrets that seem to trouble Holly’s relationships with others, the two become close.
He enjoys observing Holly, however neither he knows anything about her past nor she is going to tell him where she is from. She sustains her disguise, until Doc Golightly arrives and reveals that he is her husband. He tells the narrator he married Holly, originally Lulamae Barnes, in Tulip, Texas, when she was fourteen after she and her brother, Fred,
Author
Truman Capote (1924 New Orleans-1984 L.A.) was a story writer, novelist and playwright originated from poor background. He loved to be surrounded by the famous and rich and it was often told that Holly Golightly resembles her creator. She shares Capote’s philosophies as well as his fears and anxieties.
Setting
Breakfast at Tiffany’s is set in Manhattan’s Upper East East Side during the final years of second World War.
Plot summary of „Breakfast at Tiffany’s“
The heroine of the short novel Holly Golightly has become Capote’s best-known creation. It was published in 1958, however it’s 1943 in the book.
While the novel focuses upon Holly, the story is told from the point of view of the unnamed narrator, a now very successful writer.
He the, the first-person narrator, gets back to the place where he lived approximately ten years ago and had a friendship with his neighbour the devil-may-care playgirl.
The frame story is that the writer recalls all Holly’s experiences.
He tells how shortly after he moves in the upper East-side apartment house he notices Holly and is fascinated with her from the start, her late hours, partying, friends, the way she looks. The nineteen year old is often in an admirer’s company
They get to know each other when one evening she crawls through his window from the fire escape fleeing from a boyfriend.
Thenceforward she calls him “Fred”, because he reminds her of her brother. He is delighted by her charm and despite the deceptions and secrets that seem to trouble Holly’s relationships with others, the two become close.
He enjoys observing Holly, however neither he knows anything about her past nor she is going to tell him where she is from. She sustains her disguise, until Doc Golightly arrives and reveals that he is her husband. He tells the narrator he married Holly, originally Lulamae Barnes, in Tulip, Texas, when she was fourteen after she and her brother, Fred,