Beckie's review
Breakfast at Tiffany's: A Short Novel and Three Stories (Modern Library)
by Truman Capote
Beckie's review
Breakfast at Tiffany's: A Short Novel and Three Stories (Modern Library) by Truman Capote
Beckie's review
rating:
I wanted to read 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' to understand how the man who wrote 'In Cold Blood' could have authored the basis for the Audrey Hepburn movie.
Here's the short answer: the novella is nothing like the film. There are certain plot points in common, and the character of Holly Golightly, and even a few strands of dialogue. But the relationship between 'Breakfast at Tiffany's', the story, and 'Breakfast at Tiffany's,' the movie is roughly that between 'The Little Mermaid,' the Hans Christian Andersen tale and 'The Little Mermaid,' the Disney cartoon. Don't expect a happy ending or a nice moral to the story.
Even half a century after the Capote wrote the story, Holly Golightly is a bit shocking, if only because it's hard to imagine this golddigger and unknowing mob runner as a contemporary of my grandmother.
Yet I can relate to her feelings on buying some furniture and giving the cat a name.
Capote has fascinated me for several reasons: his ambivalent approach to truth...more
Here's the short answer: the novella is nothing like the film. There are certain plot points in common, and the character of Holly Golightly, and even a few strands of dialogue. But the relationship between 'Breakfast at Tiffany's', the story, and 'Breakfast at Tiffany's,' the movie is roughly that between 'The Little Mermaid,' the Hans Christian Andersen tale and 'The Little Mermaid,' the Disney cartoon. Don't expect a happy ending or a nice moral to the story.
Even half a century after the Capote wrote the story, Holly Golightly is a bit shocking, if only because it's hard to imagine this golddigger and unknowing mob runner as a contemporary of my grandmother.
Yet I can relate to her feelings on buying some furniture and giving the cat a name.
Capote has fascinated me for several reasons: his ambivalent approach to truth...more
