Breakfast At Tiffany's; Was Fred Gay?
Hank Gillette
This is a pretty silly question, I know. There was an episode on Seinfeld
(American TV program) where George was in a reading group which was
discussing "Breakfast At Tiffany's". 100 pages apparently being too much
for George, he watched the movie instead. When he tried to join the
discussion by talking about "Fred" as played by George Peppard, someone
said "Fred is gay".
Well, I recently read the book and I don't really see it. Is this the
common opinion about Fred? The only evidence I can see for Fred being gay
is that perhaps he's actually Truman Copote and Copote was gay. On the
other hand, Fred said that perhaps he was half in love with Holly himself.
I'd appreciate getting some opinions on this.
--
Hank Gillette
Jim Collier
Been years since I read it, and I don't really remember but I think he
was. I remember he narrates in the first person which suggests
he is Capote. Further, I kind of recall at least from the movie
that they lived on the Upper East Side, which is where Capote lived
before he started a parade over to low-rent (then!) Brooklyn Heights
in the 1950s.
Holly Golightly's personality was ditzy, not naive as in the movie.
She wanted a Lesbian roomate "because a dyke is a good housekeeper" or
something like that, which was completely unacceptable for 1961 movies
(I remember the year because "Moon River" was such a hit), but quite
hilarious. Even if you knew nothing about Truman Capote, his female
characters were such unlikely creatures that it was obvious he had
never had pillow talk with a member of the gender.
But whatever, he was one of the great raconteurs of American lit.
His charm readily translates into other languages. Can't pull that
off with somebody who is tight and withdrawn.
Jim
Janet M. Lafler
I admit that I've only seen the movie, not read the book, but...
aren't we talking about Paul, not Fred? Holly just calls him Fred
because he reminds her of her brother.
/Janet
P.S. No opinions on whether he's gay, though of course there's the
old stereotype of the gay gigolo to consider.
--
ja...@netcom.com
"Consider the lilies; they sneer not, neither do they make little
quotation marks in the air."
-- Jon Carroll
Hank Gillette
In article <janetEu...@netcom.com>, ja...@netcom.com (Janet M.
Lafler) wrote:
>I admit that I've only seen the movie, not read the book, but...
>aren't we talking about Paul, not Fred? Holly just calls him Fred
>because he reminds her of her brother.
I'm not sure he has a name in the book, other than Holly calling him Fred.
--
Hank Gillette
raymond...@gmail.com
saw same episode kinda through me of track,cause I read the book and there was no hint that hihe was gay.
just saw the same episode now (signfeld)
Thank you
Ray
