Breakfast At Tiffany`s Breakfast at Tiffany's by T...
             Breakfast At Tiffany`s Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote is about the thought that friendship can make a person take drastic measures in helping a friend. The setting is New
             York City. The point of view is first person limited. Seen through the eyes of the narrator, called "Fred" ( the main character ), who is a starting writer. I enjoyed the story because it was very interesting to learn and experience life in old New York. The story starts out, probably in the present time, when "Fred", who had now been living in New York for a great deal of time, goes into his friend Joe Bell's bar for a drink. There he learns the his long time friend, Holly Golightly, is still alive by the use of a photograph from an explorer which shows a wood carving made by a tribesman which bears the uncanny resemblance to Holly. After this encounter, "Fred" begins to reminisce about his past with Holly and all of their wild adventures.
             "Fred's" first meeting with Holly was through his apartment window. Holly
             Golightly is a nineteen year-old self-sufficient woman. Some of her personality traits are admirable, affectionate, while cold hearted. She is motivated in life by striving for her purpose in life, which is to be rich and famous while keeping her ego. She believes that love is not sexual. Holly, trying to escape a horrible date, decides to visit her new downstairs neighbor. There she practically tells "Fred" everything about her life. Fred was a name Holly chose for "Fred" because he looked like her brother Fred, but since the point of view is first person, the narrator refers to himself throughout the story as "I", but Holly generally refers to him as "Fred". In
             "Fred's" apartment, Holly tells "Fred" about her involvement with a imprisoned drug runner name Sally Tomato, a stock mobster character who pays
             Holly to visit him. "Fred" learns more abou
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