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Breakfast At Tiffanys Essay Research Paper Breakfast

Breakfast At Tiffany`s Essay, Research Paper


Breakfast at Tiffany?s by Truman Capote is about the thought that friendship


can make a person take drastic measures in helping a friend. The setting is New


York City. The point of view is first person limited. Seen through the eyes of


the narrator, called ?Fred? ( the main character ), who is a starting


writer. I enjoyed the story because it was very interesting to learn and


experience life in old New York. The story starts out, probably in the present


time, when ?Fred?, who had now been living in New York for a great deal of


time, goes into his friend Joe Bell?s bar for a drink. There he learns the his


long time friend, Holly Golightly, is still alive by the use of a photograph


from an explorer which shows a wood carving made by a tribesman which bears the


uncanny resemblance to Holly. After this encounter, ?Fred? begins to


reminisce about his past with Holly and all of their wild adventures.


?Fred?s? first meeting with Holly was through his apartment window. Holly


Golightly is a nineteen year-old self-sufficient woman. Some of her personality


traits are admirable, affectionate, while cold hearted. She is motivated in life


by striving for her purpose in life, which is to be rich and famous while


keeping her ego. She believes that love is not sexual. Holly, trying to escape a


horrible date, decides to visit her new downstairs neighbor. There she


practically tells ?Fred? everything about her life. Fred was a name Holly


chose for ?Fred? because he looked like her brother Fred, but since the


point of view is first person, the narrator refers to himself throughout the


story as ?I?, but Holly generally refers to him as ?Fred?. In


?Fred?s? apartment, Holly tells ?Fred? about her involvement with a


imprisoned drug runner name Sally Tomato, a stock mobster character who pays


Holly to visit him. ?Fred? learns more about Holly?s friends when he


attends a party hosted by Holly. There he meets Rusty Trawler, Holly?s current


boyfriend, Mag Wildwood, a cunning southern bell from Arkansas who would


eventually steal away Holly?s boyfriend. ?Fred? realizes that Holly?s


friends are not the usual type of people that attend parties. Which is described


when Mag first enters the party and says in her southern accent, " You


b-b-boys not vexed at me for butting in on you

r p-p-party." Mag says this


even though everybody knows she was attending. The tone of the story is funny


and sarcastic. The action then abruptly changes when Holly, Mag, Rusty, and


Mag?s boyfriend, Jose` Ybarra-Jaegar, an eccentric Brazilian politician, went


on a trip to Brazil. There Mag steals Holly?s boyfriend, Rusty, and Holly does


the same with Mag?s boyfriend, Jose`. When they get back, Holly is detected by


her former husband. ?Fred? then learns that Holly?s real name was Lulamae


Barnes before she was married as a child bride to a southerner named Doc


Golightly. Also, over this period of time, Holly?s involvement with Mag?s


ex-boyfriend drives Mag away. This is a very rough time for Holly. In order to


ease the pain and pass the time, Holly spend more and more time with ?Fred?


drinking in Joe Bell?s bar. Joe Bell is a shy bar owner who conceals his


feeling about the rambunctious Holly. Even though he is in love with her, Joe


keeps his feelings hidden. Everything is fine till one day after horse-back


riding. After ?Fred? has a sever accident, involving a horse and an abrupt


trip downtown, Holly is suddenly arrested for being involved in a drug triangle


with Sally Tomato. Apparently, Sally was using Holly to relay information from


him to his drug empire outside the prison walls. At this same moment ?Fred?


finds out that Jose` is leaving Holly and he has to tell her the news. The theme


is reinforced in these chapters by the way the narrator goes out of his way to


do things for his friend, Holly. They go horse back riding, even though


?Fred? is uneasy about riding. They also decide to steal masks from a


costume store. After all of these horrible things happen to Holly, she decides


to break out of jail and move to Brazil. Even though ?Fred? knows she is


probably never coming back, he still has hope for Holly?s return. And he


shares that hope with Joe Bell at his bar. ?Fred? knows that he would have


done anything to keep his and Holly?s relationship strong. Which is the theme


of the story: friendship can make a person take drastic measures in helping a


friend. Holly Golightly was just a lost romantic. A surreal person living in a


real word. Dealing with real people and problems in an unorthodox way. So, if


you?re ever in Brazil and you happen to see Holly, tell her that ?Fred? is


doing fine.

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