Breakfast at Tiffany's
Breakfast at Tiffany's
by Truman Capote

Breakfast at Tiffany's Characters

Meet the Cast

Holly Golightly

Holly is one of those literary characters that academic folks love to talk about since she isn't as cut and dried as she initially appears. She might first seem like a party girl with no substance,...

The Narrator

Although we never learn the narrator's real name, he's still central to the novel, more for what he tells us about Holly than for what he tells us about himself. In fact, we actually learn very lit...

Fred and Doc Golightly

Fred, Holly's brother, and Doc, the man who took her and Fred in as children and who she's married to, are pretty minor characters when it comes to actual action in the story (in fact, we never act...

José Ybarra-Jaegar

Like most of the other characters in the novel, José is interesting because of what he can tell us about Holly. When Fred dies and Holly has to change her future plans, she seems to really enj...

Joe Bell

Joe's a pretty interesting guy in that he's kind of gruff and rough around the edges, but he's also a big softie when it comes to Holly and he offers her (dare we say it?) a sense of unconditional...