Breakfast at Tiffany's has always been a favorite of mine. The book, and the movie of course in their own right. Ever since I saw the movie, I have always admired how Holly, the main character, lived her life. It was just so free-spirited and she lived her life to the fullest. She was only nineteen and still lived in the village of New York City. To me, that is what I call an independent woman. Something I never felt I was. Something I think a lot of girls in 2017 aren't. This isn't to say that no girl is independent or has the opportunity to be these days. All It means is that it's something that is lacking in today's society and I find it horrible. Let's take a look at one of my favorite literary characters ever, Holly Golightly, and maybe you'll see why it just might be the time we take a page out of her book.

I think the main problem with Holly is she's a character who you're supposed to love to hate. She has a lot of flaws she tries to cover up, but she never fails to own what flaw shines through her tough exterior. She had a rough childhood. Her parents died when she was young, and she had to move in with relatives who didn't really want her. So she and her brother Fred run away and begin to live with Doc Golightly, a man who is pretty old but falls in love with Holly.

I think that this is a good starting point to see where we can love Holly because we finally get a little background and see that maybe there is a different side to her. She ends up running away and even changing her name to Holly Golightly from Lula Mae Barns so she could be poised. It worked because she comes of as the most pretentious person in Manhattan and manages to catch everyone's attention. When you look into it, I think she does all of this because she is broken. This is why I love Holly and I think more people need to pay attention to her. She is a broken soul who does a lot just to try and make it look like she is perfect. I think it's relatable, and maybe people won't agree with me, but I think that everyone has felt like this once or twice. I know I have.

Now, I want to talk about how she becomes the most free-spirited, mature person in a novel. She is only nineteen and proves to ever man, woman, and child, that she doesn't need a man just to show her what she's worth. She knows it and makes sure everyone else does too. I admire that highly because let's be honest, who doesn't need that validation these days. It's a harsh reality, but I think that is yet again, why we need to pay attention to Holly. So many men are all about her, I mean she is a call girl after all. In the book and movie, they make mention of four men, all of which at some point liked her.

To one man she even tells him off after a date. "Oh Mr. Arbuck, the next time a girl wants a little bit of powder room change, take my advice darling, don't give her twenty cents." This is the same man who was just banging on her door trying to get in more time with her. I think the thing that I like to focus on most is that she remains a "wild thing" even in the end when she realizes that she can have love and also have her own life. Face it, I'm sure you have at least one friend who has a boyfriend and every move she makes is all about him. “We don't belong to each other: he's an independent, and so am I.” Holly doesn't let that happen. Yeah, that quote is about a cat, but I think it could fit in here just fine.

One more lesson I think we can take from Holly is accepting ourselves. Holly knows who she is and where she came from, she tries to cover it up, but when she realizes she can't run anymore she finally comes clean and lets herself be who she really is, and Paul accepts her after telling her what she had to hear to finally be the mature women she tried so hard to be. "You know what's wrong with you, Miss Whoever-you-are? You're chicken, you've got no guts.

You're afraid to stick out your chin and say, 'Okay, life's a fact, people do fall in love, people do belong to each other, because that's the only chance anybody's got for real happiness.' You call yourself a free spirit, a 'wild thing,' and you're terrified somebody's gonna stick you in a cage. Well baby, you're already in that cage. You built it yourself. And it's not bounded in the west by Tulip, Texas, or in the east by Somali-land. It's wherever you go.

Because no matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself." I think under her Dark sunglasses, she is someone who is really insecure and needs someone to accept her. No one person can live without being accepted. It is apart of our human nature, but I think this is just one more example of how actually relatable Holly really is. It really takes Paul, her best friend to make her finally see that she has people that want her, that want to accept her, and I can only imagine how it felt to finally see that she has love in her life. Not just men who use her for their own gain.

Holly is a character who by the end of the movie and book leaves you questioning everything about her. At the beginning you hate her. She is a pretentious woman who plays games and acts like a high socialite, when in reality, she's a girl who didn't really make it too far because she was so busy trying to run away from herself. But by the end, she leaves you questioning everything. Should she have a happy ending? Is she the good guy?

Or is she is a good actress and good at sucking people into her crazy life? But something that is undeniable is that she never feels bad for herself and stress isn't something that she knows much of. She is someone I think we should all strive maybe not to be, but be like. She after all is like the definition of girl power. So, maybe I'm far off and Holly is the worst role model and she is really just a fake person living a phony life, but in my eyes, she is someone I think we all need a little of in our lives.