Title: Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Author: Truman Capote
Genre: Fiction: Classic
Reading Experience: A wistful and charming piece of literature that is a must-read.
Rating: *** 1/2
Breakfast at Tiffany’s revolves around the platonic relationship between the two main characters: Holiday Golightly, who is more commonly known as Holly, and the unnamed narrator. Holly, a former starlet, is a flighty, quirky, yet elegant girl whose unconventional lifestyle attracts the narrator’s attention. Floating through life like “cotton fibers in the wind,” Holly is always in search of a place where she truly belongs and where she can be completely free. Although an endearing girl, Holly eventually becomes more or less different than who she makes herself out to be. At the onset, the plot seems merely whimsical and bereft of substance, but I found that the main point of the story was to ultimately reveal a fresh take on human nature to be less cynical and tragic and more optimistic and innocent. Although the story is not one of the more compelling ones that I’ve read this year, it proved to be a wonderful novel that I’ll remember forever. (Remy Rendeiro, student)
