Holly's Cages

threw the cage out. Later the reader watches the narrator go back to the garbage where Holly throughout the cage and retrieves it, which reveals the real value at which he holds his relationship with Holly. The cage represents everything that she resists, captivity, restriction, and being tied down. Yet, she still buys the cage because she knows how taken the narrator was by its elegance. Holly purchasing an item for another individual that was extremely expensive, is out of her behavior as a person who claims she wants no intense connections with others.
Doc Golightly sympathized with wild things and tried to support them. Which is probably why he married Holly in the first place, based on previous revelations it is known that Holly like …show more content…
Holly is hardly ever seen without her dark sunglasses on by the narrator. Objects like sunglasses avert people's attention away from seeking who and what's truly behind them. With her eyes almost always covered up, it makes is hard to ever genuinely see or understand what emotion Holly is feeling at any given moment. The other object Holly hides behind is a mask; Seen when the narrator and Holly steal a pair of Halloween masks from the drugstore. The two wore the stolen masks all the way back to their apartments, remaining unidentifiable the entire time. An object such as the dark glasses were the easiest and most obvious way to cover up her emotions on day to day basis. The famous saying "the eyes are the key to the soul" becomes extremely relevant within the story, the reader never truly gets to see the Holly’s soul with her glasses on they are like Holly's protective layer. Using items such as sunglasses and masks were a way for Holly to prevent those around her from getting to attached and for her not to get to attached to them. As the book came to a close, the realization that every time the narrator describes Holly he never addresses the state of her eyes becomes evident. Allowing readers to infer that although she was displaying desires to become part of a more stable environment, she has her doubts about …show more content…
She made a collection of claims to allude to this sense of being a “wild thing” that could not be caged, yet she inadvertently keeps finding herself craving this feeling of security. When progressive steps are being taken to bring Holly closer to security transpire, she feels as though she is getting to comfortable and begins to push people away. The reader witnesses her interactions with both humans and objects, noticing that she can allow herself to get attached to objects but not individuals. You see if the store Tiffany's and the cat were human's, Holly wouldn't permit them to have a special meaning to her. A possible reason why this may be the case is that things like places and animals can't give her their opinion. Everything Holly lives by goes against settling down but if that's the case why does she surround herself with men that she knows are going to fall for her even if it's not in a romantic way. The symbols in the story are bringing to light the true longings that Holly has been trying to lock away her entire life. Holly realizes that freedom does not equal stability, with that she understands that if she wants both of these things in her life, they are not going to come in equal proportions. Holly tries to fight it but in the end, she begins to accept that a little stability in her life will not completely cut out her

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