Holly: You know those days when you get the mean reds?
Paul:The mean reds, you ____ like the blues?
Holly: No. The blues are because you're getting fat and maybe it's been raining ____ long, you're just sad that's all. The mean reds arehorrible. Suddenly you're ____ and you don't know what you're____ of. Do you ever get that _____ ?
Paul:Sure.
Holly: Well, when I get it the only thing that does any _____ is to jump in a cab and go to Tiffany's. _____ me down right away.

Audrey's husband Mel Ferrer,Audrey Hepburn and Truman Capote during the making of the film.

1. Who gets out of the taxi after Holly has hailed it?
2. Why does Holly go upstairs to Paul's flat?
3. Who does Paul look like to Holly?
4. How much money does the decorator leave?
5. What does Paul do for a living? Is he successful at it?
6. How were the stories in Nine Lives described in the review?
7. How does Holly know Paul hasn't written anything lately?
8. What has been bothering Paul all day?
9. What has Holly been trying to do with the money she makes?
10. Who is Fred? What do we find out about him?
11. What does Holly dream about?
12. What kind of person does Holly say she hates when she wakes up?

Truman Capote was already a celebrity by the time Breakfast at Tiffany’s was released in 1958.  Like Capote’s other works, Breakfast at Tiffany’s received mixed reviews. Some writers called it "slight" or not living up to Capote’s earlier work. It is a short book that can easily be read in one sitting.

Capote later in life said that Holly Golightly was his favorite character. In an early version of the book her gave her the inappropriate name of Connie Gustafson, but later gave her the more symbolic name Holly Golightly: for she is a woman who makes a holiday of life, but treads through it lightly.

Along with the book’s publishing came what Capote called the Holly Golightly Sweepstakes, where half the women he knew and some he did not, claimed to be the inspiration for his character. One New York resisdent, named Bonnie Golightly, even tried to sue Capote for invasion of privacy and libel. But she was a fat forty year old woman and lost the lawsuit without much effect. But in truth the person that Holly most resembles is her creator. She shares Capote’s philosophies as well as his fears and anxieties, an example is Holly’s panic attacks called "the mean reds."