The Arts in NYC

Yes, Lillian, I completely agree with you. As I was reading Breakfast At Tiffany’s, Holly Golightly was just like Blanche Dubois, in my opinion. I saw Blanche as a slut just as I saw Holly. They both are lacking something in their lives, therefore they go out and try to look for that “something,” but unfortunately they never find it. Instead, they gain a bad reputation. Blanche loses her husband at a young age after seeing that he cheated on her with a man, and Holly leaves her house at the age of fourteen with her brother who eventually joins the army. Sleeping around is their way of coping with their problems. Even though Blanche is more of a whore, Holly definitely is following her footsteps, especially being that Holly is only nineteen years old.
Micheal compared Breakfast at Tiffany’s to a Catcher in the Rye, and I see that also, but not as much as I saw it in comparison to A Streetcar Named Desire.

As much as it is out of character for you both, both your responses make superbly illuminating sense.

Here’s another connection between the creators of Blanche and Holly:

“Capote’s writing, especially his fiction and more direct autobiographical work, helped establish what might be called the quintessential homosexual writing style of the period, with clear links to the work of Tennessee Williams, for example. That style was at once closeted, in that it seldom dealt with overt homosexuality, and uncloseted, because its code for homosexual interpretations was so easily seen though.”

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I too found the two stories very similar. It seems the two women were looking for something to fill their hearts. They are also both independent. Considering the time it was written, I don’t think women had much of an option. They are both attractive women so they used what they had.