The star of this most famous of Truman Capote's works happens to be Miss Holly Golightly, a rather young woman with a world of charm of someone twice her age. Capote clearly put a lot of work into developing such a unique and timeless character; Miss Golightly is well known by those who live around her in the city and most still admire her despite her annoying late night arrivals forgetting her key and buzzing someone up to let her in at any hours of the night. The novel is a very quick read partially because of the quirky and fast-paced dialogue that reminds me of the conversations between Rory and Lorelai on Gilmore Girls; Audrey, Rory, and Lorelai all share that their speech is often random and not always clear to others, but yet the three women possess a light and warmth about them that seems welcoming and makes you envy their natural ease at life.
What is ironic about how perfect Capote makes Holly out to be is that is not at all how she was raised; she grew up with many siblings in a very rural area yet she manages to quickly adjust and flourish in the life of the city. At the same time that Holly seems so truly and effortlessly the image of feminine perfection she still has a sense of doubt within herself. She lets this show through when referring to her cat, "poor slob without a name. It's a little inconvenient, his not having a name. But I haven't any right to give him one: he'll have to wait until he belongs to somebody. We just sort of took up by the river one day, we don't belong to each other: he's an independent, and so am I. I don't want to own anything until I know I've found the place where me and things belong together." This statement addresses the uncertainty in all of us; we don't know exactly what we're looking for all the time, sometimes just something to make us feel complete. Through the novel Holly finds herself through her encounters with various individuals that impact the course of her life.
The classic also brings about the eternal truth that shopping is the best therapy, as Miss Golightly herself mentions, " What I've found does the most good is just to get in a taxi and go to Tiffany's. It calms me down right away, the quietness and the proud look of it; nothing very bad could happen to you there, not with those kind of men in their nice suits, and that lovely smell of silver and alligator wallets." Even if your not the shopping type of gal, any woman and any human can relate to the comfort in having a sanctuary of one's own whatever that might be. I would recommend this book to anyone looking for a fast but sweet read and don't forget to check out the film as well.
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