Summary of Breakfast at Tiffany's

     Holly Golightly, a young and beautiful woman who lives in an apartment in New York City, is always looking for somewhere she really belongs to. As a mammonish and heartless lady, she gets in lots of troubles. She makes a living by earning fifty to a hundred dollars per hour every day. She likes to stay in Tiffany's because it makes her feel comfortable and safe. In fact, she is just willing to having a wealth and easy life. In order to earn more money, she even agrees to visit a dangerous person who has ever sold drugs but was sent into a jail called Sing Sing every day. She contacts with many rich young men, and she is known as a kind of social butterfly in New York.

     A young writer called Paul Varjak, who wants to be famous one day, relys on a rich decorator to gain a lot of money and have a better life. When Paul moves into the apartment where Golightly lives, they become neighbors and soon be familiar with each other and they establish a friendship. As they know more about each other, they find that there are something in common between them. Paul eventually falls in love with Golightly. However, Golightly tells him that a rich man comes from Brazil wants to marry her and she has already accepted even though it is not true. Paul is upset but he doesn't want to give up. He breaks the relationship with the decorator and refuses her help.

     Golightly is arrested because of being accused of having connection with the smuggler, but Paul bails her out of the jail. In a morning, it begins to rain heavily outside when Golighty and Paul are on their way home. Paul sends her a ring with the letters of TIFFANY. They have an argument on the taxi and Golightly feels angry and sad, and she leaves her cat. However, when Paul tells her that she is such a nervous lady she is deeply touched. She finally realizes that who she really wants to be and what she wants to do in her life. She gets out of the taxi and finds her cat. Paul finds Golightly and then they kiss each other in the pouring rain.