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Breakfast at Tiffany's 60%

Holly's past revealed.
Orphaned, taken in by Doc Golightly in Tulip, marries him at 14. Grows up a little and runs away.

Journey:
Just a small town girl
Livin' in a lonely world
She took the midnight train goin' anywhere

 Came to mind.  Her "husband" shows up to try to take her back.  She's kind to him as he was kind to her, but of course she doesn't go back.

 Tragedy: her brother Fred dies in the war.

 More fast living. Her roommate Margaret Thatcher(!) marries the man who seemed to be Holly's beau, Rusty. 

 Don't much care for Holly, but Capote's writing is fantastic.  I don't usually like metaphors and similes all that much--too showy--but his are perfect so they seem natural.  What a gift.

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