Holiday Golightly A sexual outsider
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"If I could find a real place that made me feel like Tiffany's, then I'd buy some furniture and give the cat a name." (Capote 40) This is one of the phrases that made Holly Golightly the icon that she was. Published in 1958, Holly's character inspired women to pack their bags and seek new lives in the big city. What was so enticing about Holly's character that captivated so many people?
Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's is a story about a young woman's struggle with her identity and the passage she takes into womanhood. In Holly, Capote creates a character that almost everyone can relate to on a personal level. Ignoring our troubles and setting out to have a good time at no expense is something that most people go through at least once in their lives. Do we all however have a bit of "sexual otherness" in us? This is the aspect of Holly that caught everyone's attention. In Susan Douglas's essay Holly Golightly and Women in the early 1960's, she describes Holly as "The first irresistible, androgynous, and nonconformist female character...