Breakfast At Tiffany's

{draw:g}   The book is called “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” and is by Truman Capote. It’s about a young writer, whose name is never stated, reminiscing his memories of a girl he’d come to known a few years back. The girl was Holly Golightly, a call girl that lived in his apartment building. When Holly get the “mean reds” which are like the “blues” , but worse, she says, Holly goes to Tiffany’s, a jewellery store, and it always makes her feel better. In my opinion the story is about her trying to find a real life place that makes her feel like Tiffany’s; where nothing bad can happen and she can always feel safe and happy.   The story begins with the narrator many years after the story actually happened, where he starts to recall Holly, and brings us back to the East Seventies. The story happens in one year, for Holly is nineteen in the beginning of the story, but near the end it is stated that she is twenty years old.   The story takes place in Manhattan’s Upper East Side, New York, mostly in an apartment building called brownstone. There is a mention of the prison Sing Sing, and Joe Bell’s bar, on the corner of Lexington Avenue, and the story sometimes occurs on the streets of New York. Holly lives below the narrator, and to see each other they sometimes climb up and down the fire escape to each other’s homes. The narrator’s place is well decorated, fully furnished and fashionable. Contrary to his, Holly’s apartment only had suitcases and unpacked crates,vthat were also used for tables.   The story is told in first person, by a man that remains anonymous throughout the story. It is told with the insight of only one mind, and he tells it from his point of view, describing how he felt and what he thought about certain situations.   One of the main characters is the narrator, though there is very little information given about him. Holly refers to him as “Fred” because she says that he looks like her brother, who is very tall, and near the end he’s called Buster. We never learn...