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Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote
The novella, in part, details a struggle between a desire for freedom and a desire for a place to belong. Holly Golightly is a self-defined traveler and wild thing, defending the right of both human and animal to live outside the cage. Yet she also desires to live as a family again with her brother, Fred, and hopes for a child and marriage with her South American boyfriend. The narrator exists adrift in the text, nameless and without job security yet he craves home and literary success.
Derogatory slang of the time aside, the text offers a subtle and interesting view into how sexuality can be both freeing and limiting as well. Holly practices a measure of self-deception in not equating the money she receives from men she has “banged” with prostitution. She views it rather as given with at least the illusion of love, and as a means to an end – her continued freedom to exist as she chooses outside the rules and expectations of others. Capote’s depictions of the gay men within the work are also defining moments as they reflect both the social constrictions of the time and Capote’s suggested possibility that asexual unions, freed from the burden and unpredictability of desire, can yield a purer form of love or devotion.
Fragile and lovely. Sad and empowering. Thoughtful rhythmical read for those interested in a struggle to live outside the box where the unattainable - breakfast at Tiffany’s - exists as the ideal.
Mine was actually an October read, but I got a bit sidetracked.
One down and ten to go!
Er, that’s nine to go….
2 down and 8 to go….
3 down and 7 to go, and now that I’ve linked my November blogs so far, I had better start reading the remaining 7 quick smart if I’m to finish on time!
That’s four now, and six to go. Two per month - can I do it??
I haven’t been reading as much from my list since the start of the semester, but I finished The Bell Jar this weekend and loved it. Six of ten done–four more to go, but I’ll admit that I’ve been changing my list from the original one.
I just finished A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro You can read the review here
http://plays-with-needles.blogspot.com/2008/12/pale-view-of-hills-by-kazuo-ishiguro.html
For the first time, I’m being requested to enter a username and password as this is a restricted site? I have entered what I thought was my login and it is not working…how do I get my username and password so I can enter my book into the Mr. Linky list? Has anyone else had this problem?
Reviewed Choke today. Three more books to go!
Posted review of The Hours today. Still have 8 to go before the end of February!
Five now, and five to go. Since joining, I’ve read In A Free State, by VS Naipaul, The Hours by Michael Cunningham, The Plot Against America by Philip Roth, The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brian, and Fanny Hill by John Cleland. I’m aiming to read Perfume, The Child in Time, The Remains of the Day, Alias Grace (a long one!) and Shroud by the deadline!
Six now, and four to go. Since joining, I’ve read In A Free State, by VS Naipaul, The Hours by Michael Cunningham, The Plot Against America by Philip Roth, The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brian, Fanny Hill by John Cleland, and The Remains of the Day by Kasuo Ishiguro . I’m aiming to read Perfume, The Child in Time, Alias Grace (a long one!) and Shroud by the deadline! Can I do it in five weeks?