Truman Capote's Breakfast With Tiffany

Many authors use different aspect to make their writing appeal to the audience. For instance, Truman Capote has wrote "Breakfast with Tiffany" with Holly, a seductive women, who is hiding behind certain material things in her life so that she will not have to expose herself to the world or get close to anyone else. Furthermore, readers can draw conclusion as to why Holly is hiding behind the material items. First of all, as seen in the novel, Holly rarely goes without her dark glasses, they are obviously to prevent people from seeing what is going on behind the glasses. With her eyes always being covered, it makes it hard for people to know what Holly is feeling at any moment. Like the narrator says "she was never without her glasses"(12).

She cannot "bear to see anything in a cage"(47) but she does appreciates "its fantasy"(46). The cage represents that Holly never wants to be caged herself. She does not want to feel like she cannot pick up herself and go whenever she wants too. So the birdcage represents the confinement that she has fought so hard against. In the end, the birdcage still functions as a place to keep whatever is inside it from being free. In the novel, Holly makes the narrator promise to never put a living thing inside the cage(47). Even though the birdcage is beautiful and briefly fascinated her, Holly cannot get behind the idea of being caged up. Finally, Holly's escape to the jewelry; the place that she can go where she feels safe from the "mean reds" that infects her from time to time. So to Holly, Tiffany is a refuge. It represents order, security, and balance for Holly. She wants to find a place in the world that she could claim as her own, and to Holly that place should feel like Tiffany's. So therefore Tiffany's symbolizes all that the outside world is not, and thus Holly holds onto it as her ideal. As seen in "Breakfast at Tiffany's" there are hidden meaning behind certain material items that helps Holly to hide from the world and from not getting too close to anyone. Thus, showing that Holly has her own idea what life is and she has to hide behind those certain things to get the life that she