Truman Capote
Truman Capote is a representative of 20th-century American critical realism literature, such as "Cold Blood" and "Breakfast at Tiffany".
Truman Capote is one of America's most controversial and glamorous writers. Unlike other critical realist literature in the United States, Truman Capote belonged to the neo-journalism category, dominated by "nonfiction." Non-fiction novels take major social, historical and political events as the material, and present social reality truthfully and clearly through documentary and fictional techniques, just like the camera lens.
Breakfast at Tiffany
Like Cold Blood, Breakfast at Tiffany's is Truman Capote's masterpiece, and was named one of Time Magazine's "100 Best English Novels."
"Breakfast at Tiffany'" is very similar to the story of Dreisy's masterpiece "Carrie's Sister", which is the story of a rural girl who comes to the big city to break through. The phenomenon of material worship in society is satirized, which profoundly reveals the confusion of rural people coming to the city, the confusion of urban spirit, the city that cannot be tolerated, and the countryside that cannot be returned.
The story is set in New York during World War II, when Holly was 14 years old, but she was married. But she was not willing to continue to live a poor life in the countryside, so she came from the country town to the metropolis of her dreams, New York, eager to occupy a place here and enter the luxury of the upper class.
Wanting to forget all her past unhappiness, she replaced her original name with Holly, Ruramie Barnas. She gave herself a new name that meant saying goodbye to her former state of life. But as a young girl with no education and no background, how can Holly establish herself in New York and have her own home in New York?
She may have thought about relying on her own hands, on her own efforts, on her own hard work, but how long does it take to go shopping at her favorite Tiffany luxury store? It was far away, she couldn't wait, she wanted to realize her dream quickly. Of course, for pretty girls, they have shortcuts.
So she chose a path of worship of gold, with a good appearance and figure, between rich men. Holly uses her good looks to try to join the upper class of drunken fans, and there is no shortage of suitors around her, there are playboy Trusts under the age of fifty in the United States, who occupy the 9th place in the rich list, Holly can easily play with the trusts in the palm of her hand, but she does not say anything about his pursuit, and ignores his model girlfriend Wai Maggie.
After the struggle with the trusts was over, Berhosi appeared. The handsome and wealthy Brazilian diplomat became Holly's perfect husband. Just when Holly thought her dream was about to come true, a lawsuit turned Berhosy into a stranger Holly knew best. Sad and helpless, Holly was eventually forced to leave New York and travel to South America to find her new life.
"Breakfast at Tiffany" presents us holly from a gold worship girl who wants to enter the upper class, in the process of pursuing flashy dreams, facing the temptations of money, love, fame and fortune, and finally after experiencing the death of relatives, the abandonment of lovers and other setbacks, see through the so-called wealth and prosperity of the world.
An ever-expanding city
In 1865, after the end of the American Civil War, large-scale industrialization, urbanization, and modernization began. By the end of the 19th century, the United States had basically completed urbanization, and a large number of people were concentrated in the city, and New York and Chicago were developed during this period.
Industrialization, urbanization, and modernization have brought unprecedented wealth and confidence to the United States, providing an important economic force for the United States to become a world hegemon. However, this rapid development has also led to changes in the social structure, promoted new contradictions, caused general anxiety and uneasiness in society, and surged deep anxiety and fear behind the prosperity and optimism.
Confused people in the city
With the development of industrialization and urbanization, the city continues to expand, and more and more people are concentrated in the city. They come either from the countryside or from small cities. After they came to the city, although some people had gained achievements and wealth, their hearts could not be integrated into the city, they could not understand the dialect, and they wanted to escape the city all the time. Compared with these foreign achievers, there are more outsiders who cannot gain a foothold in the city.
Those who have sunk into the metropolis of foreign livelihoods, they can neither fully establish themselves nor return to the countryside, where the way of life and habits of thought are no longer suitable for them.
When industrialization and urbanization bring opportunities, wealth, hopes, and dreams, they are also mixed with sin, the gap between rich and poor, deception, loss, and reality, which are like blindly deadly poisons that eat away at the vitality of foreign earners, who are eliminated along with the ups and downs of the metropolis.
Industrialization, urbanization, and modernization have brought materialization, and the materialized society erodes people's dreams, thoughts and feelings, and in the game with reality, such spiritual alienation becomes more and more acute and prominent, they cannot stay and cannot escape, and finally can only let the confused people hide in the illusion they have created and become the real weak.
Once idyllic life has created their mindset of clinging to the land for generations, but in the face of the impact of the urbanization process, these closed and old ideas and limited horizons have always restricted the drifters. They are eager to find a position and foothold in the city, imagining that they used to have their own "land" in the city, but they lack the ability to settle down, and eventually become the catch of being eliminated. These weak will eventually be engulfed by the development of cities.