As a Truman Capote fan for a while now, any book/story of his I read is amazing from a artistic and literary point of view. 'Breakfast At Tiffany's is as american as apple pie some might say and at only aaround 100 pages it is technically a Novella. However when you are finished reading it you do not feel like you read a short story but rather a meaty novel, and that is Truman Capote's genius. I connected with Holly Golightly (a name that is a metaphor in itself I'm sure) as a character and I also connected and felt for our protagonist, which was based on Capote's own experiances as a young man. I believe all of America related to at least one of the characters and I believe that is what makes this novel so successsful, the fact that you can either feel for our protagonist and the love/hate he feels towards miss Golightly, or we feel related to Holly and we feel for her ever wandering spirit and heart and the sadness that is her constant retreat from realism. It is in this character I found solice yet I felt for him also because I knew what it was like to love someone so much like Holly Golightly and again this is the genius of the novel and why it worked on so many levels. The character development (which is of course a main theme in all of Capote's work) is very fleshed out and thats all you seem to need in his novels are the characters and the rest just falls inro place, astonishing almost is Truman Capote and his way with words. Another amazing book that wasn't hard to put down in the sense of a good thriller, you just don't want to put it down because reading this book is like life, an experiance in which you must participate in.