Document Type
Essay
Abstract
[First paragraph]
Serialized from 1953 to its publication in 1958, and adapted into a celebrated film starring Audrey Hepburn in 1961, Truman Capote’s Breakfast at Tiffany’s focuses on the ingénue/Cinderella figure Holly Golightly. A poor white, Southern-farm-girlturned starlet-turned-NewYork-call-girl, Holly Golightly both fascinates and repels the narrator of her story by the very libidinous terms of her mobility. She exists in the novel as the narrator’s construction: an untenable, though tantalizing, figuration of a deviant postwar female sexuality.
Repository Citation
Smith, Dina. "Traveling with Holly Golightly: Breakfast at Tiffany’s as Cinderella Mythology." Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture vol. 9, no. 2, 2009, pp. 1–22. https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/reconstruction/vol9/iss2/11