BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S
The book is a frustrating study of a misguided personality. Ms. Golightly can't put down roots. She and her brother, Fred were raised by foster parents when their own parents died while they were just children. Fred is the only "anchor" in Holly's life and she loses him also, in an auto accident. He might have been the steadying influence on her had he lived. Oh well, it's just a story.
Her husband certainly wasn't. When Holly and Fred ran away from their last foster home, they were taken in by the widowed horse doctor. Doc Golightly married Holly, but in search of wider horizons, she leaves Doc, her children, and yes, even Fred for a self-discovery mission.
In New York, Holly meets Paul (George Peppard) who lives above her in the brownstone apartment building. Can he save her? You have to figure that out for yourself.
Holly lives life on the edge, indulging in late parties, one night stands, even guileless drug-running to Sing-Sing (the only thing she does in a committed fashion). She charms, amuses, and entertains, but her dissatisfaction and unhappiness are always sub surface. Breakfast at Tiffany's is about a dreamer. As it's theme song, Moon River, taunts: Oh dreammaker, you heartbreaker, wherever you're goin' I'm goin' your way.
Holly Golightly is a portrait of insecurity. She forgets names, refuses to name her cat, loses keys, is a spendthrift, mostly with other people's money. She has no obvious means of employment. Most of all, she is insensitive. Maybe her own pain blinds her to the feelings of others. Despite her imperfections, she is enchanting. You're drawn into her fragrant web for better or worse.
A well told story by Truman Capote, where we believe if we met her, she would both charm and infuriate us as she did to all her associations in the story. He also wrote the factual chiller, In Cold Blood.
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