![]() As Capote put it, she’s not a prostitute, but an “American geisha”-a material girl in a material world, an unattached dreamer pursuing some ideal of happiness. ![]() In the early 1940’s, an unnamed narrator befriends his neighbor, Holly Golightly, a country girl turned New York café society girl who makes money by socializing with wealthy men who range from playboy millionaires to Brazilian diplomats and Mafia gangsters. ![]() Good? Honest is more what I mean… Be anything but a coward, a pretender, an emotional crook, a whore: I’d rather have cancer than a dishonest heart.” ![]() “Good things only happen to you if you’re good. In many ways, she is the perfect embodiment of the male fantasy… as dreamed up by a gay man who doesn’t seem to have a very high opinion of women. We may have Truman Capote to thank for the original prototype of what later became the Manic Pixie Dream Girl trope-Holly Golightly, by his own admission his favorite character he’s written, is effortlessly eccentric and quirky, enigmatic and unattached, sexual yet naive, charming yet self-absorbed, fragile yet willful. ![]() Title: Breakfast At Tiffany’s and Three Stories ![]()
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