has anyone read "Breakfast at Tiffany's"?

Question

I've seen the movie and it doesn't seem to make any reference that Fred is gay. ( I know the writer is)
I saw a Seinfeld episode where they say "George, Fred is gay".
I don't get it. Does the book go into more detail that the movie doesn't?

Answer 1

Truman Capote, the author, hated the movie. It changed a lot of the book's plotting and characters.
Fred is based on Capote himself, who was gay.
Holly is based on various women Capote knew ( he denies that her character was based on a gay man), but she was also very like his own violently alcoholic mother who dreamed her entire life of getting to New York.
There are lots of keys to Capote's life in the book---the scene when Holly is playing and singing a song (in the movie, "Moon River") in the book she is playing a tune from "Oklahoma." Truman Capote's longtime partner, Jack Dunphy, was a dancer in the original production of "Oklahoma".
But her line of dialogue about "Breakfast at Tiffany's" was something Truman Capote heard a gay male friend of his say.
In the film, the George Peppard character has some issues---he is being "kept" by an older woman(Patricia Neal), who is mothering him. He certainly isn't tough and independent as we would expect a "straight" man to be.

And, in my opinion, good as the book is, Truman Capote's unfinished work SUMMER CROSSING, which was published last year, is 10 times better. Don't miss reading it as well as BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S.

Answer 2

The book makes no reference to Fred being gay; he speaks of being in love with Holly and he services his mistress, which aren't impossible for a gay man, but certainly don't point ot him being gay. The only reason people say Fred is gay is because the story is written in first person, by a male narrator struggling to become a writer, and the actual writer of the story is gay. They can't separate the author from the narrator, or think the author can't, or just want him to be gay because they like George Peppard.

Answer 3

If the e book is something like the action picture (which i might assume that's because of the fact the action picture Breakfast at Tiffany's is consistent with it) i might say %. out the biggest turning factors. whilst she first meets the male lead, or possibly whilst they first shuttle to Tiffany's - interior the tip whilst she realizes she should not be so preoccupied with herself. the universal topic of Breakfast at Tiffany's is the hunt for connections with human beings and places My best advice is to think of of the e book whilst dealing with your track sequence and attempting to stay with specific songs to thoughts you had whilst analyzing the e book. it's going to come to you :) eg: The Weepies - "the international Spins Madly On" suits nicely with this e book because of the subject of the sensation of loss however the international keeps to spin no rely what occurs.

Answer 4

I read the novella quite a while ago and then realised how different the film was. The book is less sanatised in that Holly is portrayed more as a call girl / prostitute and you don't have this happy ending with boy/ girl kissing in the rain with the cat snuggled in between.

Answer 5

no, sorry