Is Holly Golightly The Great Gatsby in Drag?

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	Is Holly Golightly The Great Gatsby in Drag?

zizzy

9-26-2009 10:16 AM

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The resemblance of Truman Capote's novella to Fitzgerald's jazz age classic is eerie

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/9d84f0e9-e821-4e9d-a8a8-15b88d18ce15/301548FD-3A4B-440C-96ED-1409234738E7/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2009/sep/15/holly-golightly-great-gatsby" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2009/sep/15/holly-golightly-great-gatsby" style="font-size: 11px;">www.guardian.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2009/sep/15/holly-golightly-great-gatsby"><P>"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." <EM><A href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/fscottfitzgerald">F Scott Fitzgerald</A>, The Great Gatsby</EM></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2009/sep/15/holly-golightly-great-gatsby"><P>"I am always drawn back to places where I have lived, the houses and their neighbourhoods." <EM><A href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/truman-capote">Truman Capote</A>, Breakfast at Tiffany's</EM></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2009/sep/15/holly-golightly-great-gatsby">The closing sentence of one classic of American literature and the opening sentence of another, both reflecting upon the inevitable pull of the past. <A href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/sep/05/breakfast-at-tiffanys-audrey-hepburn">Sarah Churchwell's recent article on Breakfast at Tiffany's</A> drew comparisons between these two works' shared themes of "escape and reinvention"</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2009/sep/15/holly-golightly-great-gatsby">Breakfast at Tiffany's can be read as an actual re-write of The Great Gatsby. As well as these common themes there are a number of structural similarities that suggest Capote used Fitzgerald's novel as a model for his novella</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2009/sep/15/holly-golightly-great-gatsby">To start with, let's take a look at the similarities between Jay Gatsby and Holly Golightly</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2009/sep/15/holly-golightly-great-gatsby"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.guardian.co.uk/img/BD996857-27F8-45FA-A697-E187DDACC78F" alt="The Great Gatsby and Holly Golightly" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2009/sep/15/holly-golightly-great-gatsby"><P class="caption">Twins ... Robert Redford as Jay Gatsby and Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly. Photograph: Ronald Grant Archive/Rex</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/301548FD-3A4B-440C-96ED-1409234738E7/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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