Breakfast at Tiffany's - Personal Notes

General.

• Arrives in New York in a yellow taxi.  = Traveller?
• Elegantly dressed, black gown & gloves.
• Sunglasses = Mysterious?
• Big dreams = Tiffany's.
• Individual but lonely; as shown by the opening scene when she's walking down NY highstreet.
• She's observant, never misses a thing.
• Visits a mobster in Sing Sing prison >Sally Tomato. > She carries coded messages.
• She's inquisitive. 
• Likes diamonds > idea of perfection.
• Reading about South America being a rich continent. 
• All women in the film are dressed elegantly and glamorously.
• Ends with Holly and Paul kissing in the rain.
  
  Why Holly Golightly is different.
• She keeps her slippers in the fridge.
• Runs to avoid her dates from nights before.
• She uses charm and suggestion to get her own way. 
• Has a cat that she refuses to name because she doesn't feel it belongs to her.
• She sleeps nude.
• Keeps her phone in a suitcase to muffle the noise.
• Really disorganised > unconventional for a woman.
• Whistles like a man for a cab in the street.
• Waters plants with alcohol.
• She cares immensely for her brother, Fred.
• Doesn't save money well.
• Has nightmares about her brother Fred, who is in the army.
• Smokes.
• Party animal.
• Gets arrested by the police.
• She calls her neighbour Paul, 'Fred'. < shows her attachment to her brother and how much she longs to see him.
• She's frequently drunk.
• She marries people for their money.
• Drinks champagne.
• Thrives to do things that she's never done before. 
• She's shy to commitment.
• Devastated at the loss of her brother, she trashes her apartment. 
• After the death of her brother, she took up knitting and dresses casually > no glam.
• Recognises belonging and love at the end > Searches for 'cat' who she chucked out of the taxi and threw on the street.
• Ultimate realisation of love.
  
  Quotes:
• " I hate snoops."
• "She's got a lot of style and class."
• "I need money and I'll do anything to get it."
• "I think it would be tacky to wear diamonds before I'm 40."
• "C'mon don't be a chicken" < encouraging Paul to steal.
• "She's a phoney, a real phoney!"
• "People don't belong to people, I don't wanna be locked in a cage!"
• " I've got to do something about the way I look. I mean a girl just can't go to Sing Sing with a green face."
• "I'm like cat here, a no-name slob. We belong to nobody, and nobody belongs to us. We don't even belong to each other."