Summary

Breakfast At Tiffany's is from Nick's point of view of his friendship with his crazy, spaced out apartment neighbor, Holly Golightly. In the beginning, Holly only uses Nick as a way of getting into the building, since she never used her key (Page 14). She would ring his buzzer every night at around two in the morning. One day, Holly climbed the fire escape to Nicks room and started talking to him (Page 17). Holly told Nick about her every Thursday bus ride to the local jail and talking to a man named Sally Tomato and how he would give her the weather report for her to tell Sally's friend out of jail. Holly never knew what it meant. 

Nick went to party after party in Holly's apartment room, where there was no furniture, and everyone had a drink in their hand that never seemed to empty. Nick met all of Holly's friends, and her boyfriend, who ended up running away with Holly's friend. He also ended up meeting Holly's husband who she married at the age of 14 (Page 69). Lulamae, which was Holly's real name, had run away from her home and moved to the big city to start a new life. After Holly's ex and friend ran away together, a letter came for Holly saying that her brother had died. This drove Holly crazy, for she loved her brother, even though she never got to see him. Holly drover herself crazy for a couple of months, causing her friend's ex boyfriend to move in with her to keep her from hurting herself. A couple of months later, Holly became pregnant, or 'preggers' as she called it, with the man's child (Page 81). A couple weeks after, Holly was brought to jail, to go on trial about helping Sally Tomato with drug deals while visiting him (Page 89). Nick didn't know who to call to help, Holly had a lot of acquaintances, but not a whole lot of friends who would help bail her out of jail.

Will she ever get out?