Jay, Golightly!
It's strange.
Every time I saw Audrey Hepburn drawl "darling" in Breakfast at Tiffany's, I imagined Jay Gatsby saying "old sport". So much in common, those two: the "real phony" escort and the bootlegger "worth the whole damned bunch put together". Their professions: damned, but their ideals: tinged with a childlike purity. Their lifestyles: lavish, but their dreams: simple. Their names: forged, but their identities: sacred.
Putting aside the obvious (somewhat nagging but not indulged in) issue of plagiarism, I ask: What did these two men (F. Scott Fitzgerald and Truman Capote) have in common that made them choose such similar themes, and then treat them in exactly the same manner?
P.S. Just saw Breakfast at Tiffany's ... I think the novel much better than the movie, Hepburn notwithstanding. I understand the Hays Code and all that, but it would have been much better left alone - especially minus 2E and the narrator's romance with Holly.
Every time I saw Audrey Hepburn drawl "darling" in Breakfast at Tiffany's, I imagined Jay Gatsby saying "old sport". So much in common, those two: the "real phony" escort and the bootlegger "worth the whole damned bunch put together". Their professions: damned, but their ideals: tinged with a childlike purity. Their lifestyles: lavish, but their dreams: simple. Their names: forged, but their identities: sacred.
Putting aside the obvious (somewhat nagging but not indulged in) issue of plagiarism, I ask: What did these two men (F. Scott Fitzgerald and Truman Capote) have in common that made them choose such similar themes, and then treat them in exactly the same manner?
P.S. Just saw Breakfast at Tiffany's ... I think the novel much better than the movie, Hepburn notwithstanding. I understand the Hays Code and all that, but it would have been much better left alone - especially minus 2E and the narrator's romance with Holly.
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