Symbolism In Breakfast At Tiffany's
Breakfast at Tiffany's reveals a persistent theme of freedom and need to break confinement with a hidden unwarranted desire for stability. The desire for these things can cause individuals to act in unusual ways to protect the things they want the most. Holly craves this sense of freedom and independence while others attempt to form a more stabilized bond and environment with Holly, she refuses. The intense desire she feels for the necessity to be independent causes her to push people away and neglect any close ties individuals attempt to have with her. The symbols presented throughout the story show the evolution of Holly, as a character, as her once overbearing desires become restrained in an attempt to get a taste of a life of stability.
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A cage is a reoccurring object; the cage first comes into the picture when the narrator and Holly are walking past an antique shop in New York City. When Holly first sees the cage in the window of the store, she expresses her true disgust for them. "It was near the antique shop with the palace of a bird cage in its window, so I took her to see it, and she enjoyed the point, it's fantasy: "but it's still a cage"(Capote, 44). The audience, later on, finds out that Holly envisions herself as a "wild animal" that should never be caged. She thinks that all wild animals should be free and should not be held captive by people in cages. When the narrator and Holly walk through Central Park, she refused to go near the zoo never the less through it. The description she gives of living life in Doc's house in Tulip, Texas was like being held captive in a cage for her. It doesn't stop there the cage becomes prevalent again. When Christmas rolls around the narrator and Holly exchange presents, Holly gives the narrator the massive picturesque bird cage they saw in the window of the shop. Well, Holly gives the narrator the cage, she requires that he never puts any wild things in the cage; which she knows that if she gifts the cage to him, he will listen to her and not put any wild thing within it. The cage came to be a symbol of the narrator and Holly's connection. It was also the cause of an argument the two shared, as a result the narrator
A cage is a reoccurring object; the cage first comes into the picture when the narrator and Holly are walking past an antique shop in New York City. When Holly first sees the cage in the window of the store, she expresses her true disgust for them. "It was near the antique shop with the palace of a bird cage in its window, so I took her to see it, and she enjoyed the point, it's fantasy: "but it's still a cage"(Capote, 44). The audience, later on, finds out that Holly envisions herself as a "wild animal" that should never be caged. She thinks that all wild animals should be free and should not be held captive by people in cages. When the narrator and Holly walk through Central Park, she refused to go near the zoo never the less through it. The description she gives of living life in Doc's house in Tulip, Texas was like being held captive in a cage for her. It doesn't stop there the cage becomes prevalent again. When Christmas rolls around the narrator and Holly exchange presents, Holly gives the narrator the massive picturesque bird cage they saw in the window of the shop. Well, Holly gives the narrator the cage, she requires that he never puts any wild things in the cage; which she knows that if she gifts the cage to him, he will listen to her and not put any wild thing within it. The cage came to be a symbol of the narrator and Holly's connection. It was also the cause of an argument the two shared, as a result the narrator