![]() ![]() I don’t want to own anything until I know I’ve found the place where me and things belong together. We just sort of took up by the river one day, we don’t belong to each other: he’s an independent, and so am I. But I haven’t any right to give him one: he’ll have to wait until he belongs to somebody. ![]() It’s a little inconvenient, his not having a name. “Poor slob,” she said, tickling his head, “Poor slob without a name. His descriptions of Holly and her antics are a joy to read, even if his humble narrator doesn’t seem to ever really grasp her true character or what motivates her. What makes the book truly delightful is Capote’s way with words. Holly is definitely the most interesting character in the story, although she ultimately remains a cipher. ![]() Holly (Audrey Hepburn) and Paul (George Peppard) spend a day in Manhattan in Breakfast At Tiffany’s She proceeds to charm and repel him at intervals, while remaining oblivious to his roller coaster-like reactions to her. He soon encounters his 19 year-old enigmatic neighbor, Holly Golightly. ![]() Truman Capote wrote it in 1958, but the story is set in 1943 as a young, unnamed writer (Capote’s stand-in) moves into a brownstone on the upper east side of Manhattan. Breakfast at Tiffany’s the book shares a lot of the same traits as Breakfast at Tiffany’s the film: charming in places, predictable in others, with some questionable and unnecessary ethnic and racist slurs. ![]()
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