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Why Holly Golightly Bugs Guys
One man reveals his true feelings about the sinister Holly Golightly.
by Dave Itzkoff
Yet the movie seems to reward her lies in a way that real life never would. She still gets her guy and her missing cat, in the end. (I wonder how many viewers of Breakfast at Tiffany’s know that Truman Capote’s original short story ends with Holly fleeing, alone, leaving her man and her feline forever lost in New York.)
Our culture already possesses a tradition of stories about reckless, helpless women rescued by compassionate men who redeem them with perfect lives and valuable treasures, and they are known as fairy tales. When a woman embraces a shiny bauble like Breakfast at Tiffany’s, when she aspires to be Holly Golightly, she might as well dream of being Cinderella or Snow White, living on the banks of a fictitious Moon River. Wherever these women are going, I hope they’re not going my way, but I’m still probably gullible enough to give them the cab fare to get there.
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1 Michael // Aug 12, 2008 at 1:05 pm
God, men who don’t read are such a bore…
2 Lisa // Apr 11, 2008 at 11:52 am
Breakfast at Tiffany’s isn’t a happy sweet indulgence about a self-centered socialite…did you even TRY to pay attention?
Holly is a runaway who fled to New York to escape the marriage she was forced into as a child.
When she gets to New York, she realizes she’s completely incapable of taking care of her self and resorts to prostitution to survive.
She isn’t self-centered - she’s still mentally a child and just trying to survive the life she’s living. Really, do you think prostitution was top on her list of life goals?
BAT is a sad story of a woman who is best trying to deal with what life gave her - a choice between a miserable marriage to a much older man or a life of prostitution where she has some semblance of freedom - and who covers up her misery (and mental instability) with parties, alcohol, and general refusal to accept reality.
3 julia // Feb 23, 2008 at 11:22 am
Her husband was a child mollester, he married her when she was fourteen remember? in fact he should have been put in jail. And those weren’t her children. She was a chid herself at the time. How about that
4 Heather // Feb 4, 2008 at 9:37 pm
If you read the novella (not short story) you would know that Holly is certainly not a socialite - she’s a prostitute, as is her friend ‘Fred’. Maybe you should watch the movie again, or read the book. She’s selfish and hard-hearted for a reason.