A Compare And Contrast Breakfast At Tiffany's

Film vs. Novella Breakfast at Tiffany’s, both the film and novella, is a classic that deserves recognition even today. It is a story about a woman, Holly Golightly, who receives money from both from male escorts and a man in prison. She one day meets the new writer that lives in her apartment complex, Varjak. As time goes on she gets close to Varjak, the writer, and meets a man named José. She later in the film decides she wants to marry him to get away but ends up not going through with it. However since most of the plot is the same in the film and novella, the film should be viewed first as it is a little better “read” then the book because of the viewablitity, the difference in endings, and the similarities in the plots. The main reason that the film is better and easier to accept is that it is more viewable then the book. The film makes the viewer able to see the characters and their relationships more clearly. In the film you can see when Golightly first meets Varjak, she is immediately attached to him and even calls him Fred, her brother who she loves very deeply and is in the army. Being able to see this connection in the film gives the viewer a distinct notion that, despite never seeing Varjak before, Golightly is very comfortable with him. However in the book this is less clear and the reader may not get that as quickly
Both the film and novella make Golightly to be very spontaneous and very loveable. She makes the same actions in both the movie and novella. The plot serves to show her as a very likeable person because she is always getting money from escorts just by telling them she is going to the washroom. She is perceived as the same person in the film and novella with hardly any differences. She is shown as a little more spontaneous in the book but the film rounds her out a little more, proving that she has times that she is jumping from one thing to another and times she is calm and