Holly Golightly In Breakfast At Giffany's

One of of Truman Capote's most dynamic works, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, tells of the frustrating yet interesting life of young beautiful girl living in New York named Holly Golightly. Capote shows the immoral and somewhat reckless lifestyle of the New York upper class and the high society during the 1940’s and one girl’s attempt to take part in all of its glamour encompasses the evident need to “fit in” named Holly. Holly, originally an orphaned child bride named Lula Mae in a small town in Texas, ventures off to New York, where she dreams that she will be able to cast off the of shame of her past. She wants to be a moviestar, a wife, and to find “normalcy” among the her new “friends”, so she changes everything about herself and invents a new persona that she clings to in desperation hoping to fill the void inside her.
She cannot be one or the other because she has changed too much, but also not enough to feel accepted. In the novel, Holly remarks “Home is where you feel at home. I'm still looking.”(Capote, 39).In his own life, Capote suffered from similar issues as he was a closeted homosexual from Alabama in the 1950’s trying to discover who he was. He surrounded himself with ladies that were upper class,despite changing his attitude,appearance, and erasing his past, he still felt alone. Breakfast at Tiffany’s is Capote’s attempt to demonstrate his own isolation through characters who would never belong in certain social circles and are emotionally isolated from