A Socioeconomic Analysis Of The Movie Breakfast At Tiffanys

Kat, the leader of the pack is also a father figure to Paul. One night Paul says to Kat, "We don't talk much, but I believe we have a more complete communion with one another than even lovers have."

the love and care he unknowingly needs. Paul takes on roles that disguise his own traits and turns him into what he believes to be a person nobody can say no to. When he takes on these roles, he

Holly is not Lula Mae or even Holly Golightly but someone different who does not have a place in society. “I don't want to own anything until I know I've found the place where me and things belong to each other. I'm not quite sure where that is just yet. But I know what it's like"(Capote 32). Holly optimism that she does have a place only shows a longing to belong, a longing that unfortunately, will never be satisfied as she cannot be satisfied,much like all people who believe the grass is greener and eventually grow bitter and remove themselves and bury these hopes deep within themselves. Aberra says “Holly thus lends herself better to postmodern theories on the instability of identity.” (Aberra 20). Holly is unstable because of her lack or loss of identity and as her many personas become mashed and molded together, she loses parts of herself until she can no longer recognize who she is and despite the many sides of Holly that the reader sees, Holly true identity is never revealed and left ambiguous. ”The characterization of Holly is built on this sense of flux; it is a continuous, ever-changing process of becoming whose origin and end are shrouded in mystery”(Aberra 20). Unlike the other characters in Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Holly does not reveal her desires besides belonging. She cares nothing for money, love, sexual favors, or fame (Tiddswell). What she craves is order, hence the name, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, She adores Tiffanys because of the kind and welcoming people,

We’re adrift in a labyrinth of woven backstreets. A Stygian darkness settles over the pavement. Steam blows up from the gutter and soaks the world in a veil of white fog.

By masquerading herself into society, Holly Golightly attempts to escape the haunting loneliness of her past. In discussion of her past, she left her former home in Tulip, Texas because she had found an overwhelming sense of loneliness there. Her older brother left the household in order to fight in the war. Without her brother, she experienced an inordinate amount of alienation; since her parents had died and she was forced into foster care, Holly endures the thought that she lacks a family without her brother. With the absence of the closest people in her life, she married at fourteen to try and escape her fears of living without her immediate family.

“How do you know he don’t feel good”. “Well how’d you feel if you’d been shut up for a hundred years with noticing’” but cats to

One hundred dollars. As I grasped the flimsy 6” x 2” white check perforated with a pay stub, happiness pervaded my body. Glistening on the “pay to the order of” line, for the first time, was my name. The fruits of all my labor translated into a single piece of paper, all that was left to do was to figure out how to spend it.

In Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Holly GoLightly battles with a psychological struggle between the basic need for stability and the aspiration for freedom. Throughout the book, Holly is coded as various animals symbolizing her independence. She fears being captured by her feelings of belongingness. Although she may toy with the idea of personal connection through superficial relationships, she ultimately chooses isolation, which she believes, is freedom.

“I wrote that your aunt really wanted to see our new kitten, so we took him along,” she said.

In conclusion, Holly rants to Ms. Leone about her current situation in life, but soon she will become “friends” with her through her writing.

“I have a kitten. We found it mewing without its mother. They must have separated during that storm last night,” he responded.

Later in the day, Miss Kitty came around and acted as if nothing happened when we first met. She asked, “What kind of cat are you? You are so different from any I have seen. Hold still a minute and let me get a closer look. I have never seen a cat with markings like yours, and your smooth silky coat is so unusual. In the sunlight, it glitters.”

Eventually finding a friend on the internet, Holly became involved in a scam. Alex sent her romantic poems, convinced her she was beautiful and was there when she needed to vent, capturing her imagination and her heart. Vowing to marry her, he was first to go away to sea on a mission for his employer. However, all was not as it seemed. Only a few days after he’d left, Holly received a desperate message advising

I stared at the money with the imagination of myself going to the convenient store on the way home but opened my mouth to say, “I can’t accept this.” She chuckled. “I didn’t think there were many people like you on Earth” she pleaded. How many kids do you know would turn down five dollars? She asked Mrs. Santos. Mrs. Santos laughs to say, mine wouldn’t!

Holly is wanderlust. She is the embodiment of a globetrotter. She has a hunger for freedom and it shines through her everyday activities. Holly is disbursed by her need to always escape from places, people and things. Even Holly's identity is in a constant state of change. Holly adopts the name "Holiday Golightly", which summarizes her approach on avoiding stability by making a holiday out of life, and deserting relationships and responsibilities that she feels interfere with her freedom.