A Character Analysis of Truman Capote's Novel "Breakfast at Tiffanys" Essay

Breakfast at Tiffany'sTruman Capote wrote the novel Breakfast at Tiffany's without a rhyme or a reason. He used real life characters possessing different names. It is stated that the narrator just might have been Truman himself during his early years in New York. It is clear that Mr. Capote does not believe in traditional values. He himself did come from a wealthy unorthodox family life. Capote's ideal woman was created in Holly Golightly. Mr. Capote uses Authentic Modernism as the literary movement. An author can use his or her literature to live out fantasies. The theme of the novel is, friendship can make people take drastic measures in helping a friend. This novel appears to be written for pleasure purposes. At the beginning of the novel the narrator starts by explaining the friendship between Joe Bell, Holly, and himself. Capote keeps the reader on his or her toes by there being arguments that would create conflicts putting a halt to the friendships between the main characters. Then, Holly and the narrator would meet and make up over a drink at Joe Bell's bar or Holly's apartment room. " The bulk of Capote's work persuades us...that both humor and the supernatural are acts of the imagination intended to question our surface evaluations of reality, and indeed to affirm the counterreality of fantasy. The prevalence of dreams, the interest in childhood, the negative conception of adolescent initiation, the concern with W Wiley 2 self-discovery, the emphasis on homoeroticism, and the general stasis of the mythic...