Eccentric Female Heroines In Truman Capote's Works

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Eccentric Female Heroines in Truman Capote’s Works
Introduction
Truman Capote is one of the most unordinary and witty writers and personalities of the XX century. Not only his works were marvelously insightful and sharp-witted, but his image itself was one of the greatest creations of Capote. Brought up in a small and quiet town of Monroeville, he was known among New York’s elite as a self-style celebrity who led an active social life and managed to combine it with his writing career, at least for some time.
Truman Capote’s most famous works are Other Voices, Other Rooms (1944), Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1958) which was later turned into a movie, and a nonfictional novel In Cold Blood (1966) among other numerous short stories. It is rather difficult …show more content…
One of such short stories was Summer Crossing which is believed to be one of the first mature stories that Capote wrote.
The story is about a 17-year-old daughter of Wall Street financier Grady McNeil. Her parents went abroad and a girl was given a freedom she had never experienced before. Her parents were right in their wonder if Grady would be able to handle her freedom. As she instantly becomes intoxicated with it, she also becomes intoxicated with lots of alcohol and marijuana. Grady starts an affair with Jewish veteran which leads to a disastrous ending for her and her family.
While many literary men criticized Capote’s Summer Crossing for its poor description of the life of lower class and also weak imitation to describe Jewish people together with loose plot. Nevertheless, all of them agreed that image of a young Grady McNeil is fascinating, engaging and well-elaborated. She is often referred to as a light version of Holly Golightly from Breakfast at Tiffany’s: she is a debutante who does not comply with social boundaries of the upper class but enjoys everything unusual and unbridled. “People did usually look at her, because she suggested the engaging young person at a party to whom you would like to be introduced,[…..]. There were a few whose eyes she held for a different reason: and it was because, in her aura of willful and privileged enchantment, they sensed she was a girl to whom something was going to happen.” (Capote
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