"A Diamond Guitar" and "House of Flowers" are two dainty pieces, blown like pretty pieces of dyed boa into the air. In the end, one imagines this flaw to be more than a matter of showmanship than of writing craft, one of a lack of full imaginative control. Capote indulges in over-acting more than over-writing. Runs through all these stories: a tendency to over- glaze situations, to overdress characters-not stylistically so much as conceptionally-a tendency to fool with characters on the author's terms of whimsy, not on the characters.Īctually, Mr. Capote's characteristic resorting to almost vaudevillian devices weakens his originally serious conception of his character, thins it down and so, in mid-reading, forces the reader to a dimmer view of her. and asks us to believe psychological motivations compelling Holly that we are not prone to put our faith in, very seriously. He also plunges his reader into an unbelievable melodrama involvingĬrime, defrocked priests, lost brothers, etc. Capote begins to make up a plot involving Holly and one Sally Tomato (a dope peddler serving a term in Sing Sing) he vitiates the up-to-then sharp power of his character. Piney-woods husband comes to New York and explains the psychological and spiritual basis for her behavior, Holly seems to the reader less feasible.
Holly Golightly flew not into the sky but into Tiffany's and decided that if she could find "a real- life place that made me feel like Tiffany's, then I'd buy some furniture and give the cat a name * * *" When her Until they're strong enough to run into the woods. Capote makes her say, in lucid and poetic explanation of herself, "Never love a wild thing * * * you can't give your heart to a wild thing the more you do, the stronger She is a wild thing searching for something to belong to. In with the Colony set and the El Morocco crowd. This is a very funny portrait of an ex-child wife-from some place named Tulip, Tex.-who made several mistakes upon coming to New York, the most serious of which was getting herself mixed up with Tiffany's and falling The short novel, "Breakfast at Tiffany's," is a valentine of love, fashioned by way of reminiscence, to one Holly Golightly, a " real phoney" and one-time inhabitant of a brownstone in the east Sixties of New His own hand: a short novel and three stories. N this book, Truman Capote once again suggests that he is perhaps the last of the old-fashioned Valentine makers. That Old Valentine Maker By WILLIAM GOYEN
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