Rita Morales ( Romantic Comedy)

Breakfast at Tiffany’s Short Story/ Film
Genre: Romantic Comedy
Author: Truman Capote
Breakfast at tiffany’s is a beautiful short story which was transmitted to an onscreen classic .In the movie breakfast at tiffany’s we are introduced to Holly Golightly a young ,witty, and at sometimes naïve young women whom resides in New York City. Holly Golightly’s aspirations are to live a life of luxury and financial security; this is why we often see throughout the movie that the men she becomes romantically involved with poses extreme wealth. That is until she meets her new neighbor Paul who is a writer, they establish a platonic friendship that later builds into a romance.

I believe this fist a perfect mold of what a romantic comedy translates to. It is my belief for a story to be considered a romantic comedy it must poses the following; for the most part we are often introduced to two characters that have two different perspectives on life, and somehow they teach each other their life’s mantra. Both characters enlighten each other. What makes this romantic is that often the barriers or impediments that are put on their love are by the actual characters themselves, then unfolding into a realization by the end of the story. What makes it a comedy is the irony of two people whom seem completely opposed to each other’s life’s belief are often more alike than they make out to be or is often unwilling to accept.

For example my favorite scene from Breakfast at tiffanies is at the end when she and Paul are in a cab heading towards the airport. Holly’s boyfriend has invited her to live in Brazil with him where he is a very important man. Paul then presents Holly with a letter in which it states that he and holly can no longer be together due to some trouble she had gotten herself into. She’s so stubborn that she decided to go anyways. Paul thought that by reading this letter it would make her stay, but it did the opposite it reinforced her idea that all men are “Rat’s” as she would say, although she admitted to Paul that she had never considered him a rat but felt a disappointment in herself for falling in love, something she didn’t believe existed. Paul then blurts to her how he’ still in love with her. Holly then follows by saying that she belongs to no one and that she is a wild spirit. Holly is unwilling to let herself fall in love because being in love would mean being vulnerable to another person. Holly tells Paul that he wants to put her in a cage in which he replies “all I want to do is love you” Holly’s response is “it’s the same thing”. Paul then storms out of the cab but before he leaves he explains to her that the cage which she speaks of was put there by herself and her unwillingness to except that love sometimes does have happy endings.