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Breakfast at Tiffany's: Movie vs. Novella
Angel Carter
Professor Woods
English 152
2 April 2014
Breakfast at Tiffany’s: Movie vs. Novella Writer, Truman Capote, created a goldmine when he wrote the book (turned film) Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Both the book and film center around a 19 year old young woman named Holly Golightly who lives in New York City. Golightly has a high spirit and bright smile, but within she is lonely, and yearning for the love that she needs. The film has a few differences from the book such as supporting characters and scenes, the description of the narrator’s feelings for Holly and the endings which makes it easy to say that the movie was overall better than the book. In the book, Breakfast at Tiffany 's, the reader is unaware of the narrator’s name. However, Capote identifies him as somewhat of a successful writer who eventually falls in love with the main character, Holly. In the beginning of the book, Holly moves into the apartment that the narrator also stays in but is somewhat of a hassle. She has numerous amounts of parties which annoy the neighbors and typically result in her asking them to let her in. Overtime, the narrator develops a friendship with Golightly which teaches him that the sweet, energetic, and boisterous young woman he spends his time with is actually sad, lonely, and confused. Holly has been on her own since the age of 14 and just wants to be happy but living the life that she has she doesn’t know exactly what she wants. At the end of the movie, like the film, Holly is arrested for drug trafficking, and eventually moves to Brazil where she never speaks to the narrator again. The movie, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, is directed by Blake Edwards and stars Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly, and George Peppard as the narrator. Unlike the novella it originated from, the movie identifies the narrator as Paul Varjack. In the book, Paul is a homosexual writer, but in the film he is complete eye candy for every woman in sight. Over time, Paul develops strong



Cited: Capote, Truman. Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories. Reprint ed. New York: Vintage, 1993 Print. Breakfast at Tiffany 's. Dir. Blake Edwards. Perf. Audrey Hepburn and George Peppard. Paramount, 1961. DVD.

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