Breakfast At Tiffany's

The character of Holly Golightly seemed to be very relatable to the narrator in Joan Didion's "Goodbye to All of That". Both stories had a sense of living in the city, but always with the sense of escaping it eventually. The narrator in Breakfast at Tiffany's descirbed Holly's living space of having the feeling of being just moved into, and appearing as if she could be moving out any any time. Joan Didion decribed the type of New Yorker who has moved from there another part of the country, and never has that full feeling of calling New York City "home". Holly appears to have the same feeling, due to the fact that she is always readin about new places to travel to, and never truly finds comfort in her living space, or anyone else's. As well as Didion's charater falling into the same routine of social gatherings and seeing the same people all of the time, and feeling the false friendships she has made during her time in the city, the Capote's characters appear to be in a similar position. A perfect scene of these shallow social circles is the coctail part Holly throws in her apartment. Every guest is random and no one really knows each other and is slightly uncomfortable, but they are all there with a sense of belonging since they can all relate to each other on that level.