Breakfast At Tiffany's                 Part 8 : Celebration


Holly With Cig

Before Watching :
Read this extract from the novel:

TRAWLER MARRIES FIFTH. I was on a subway somewhere in Brooklyn when I saw the headline. The paper that bannered it belonged to another passenger. The only part of the text that I could read: Rutherford 'Rusty' Trawler, the millionaire playboy often accused of pro-Nazi sympathies, eloped to Greenwich yesterday with a beautiful - Not that I wanted to read any more. Holly had married him : well, well, I wished I were under the wheels of a train.

When I reached the station I bought a paper; and reading the tail-end of that sentence, discovered that Rusty's bride was : a beautiful cover girl from the Arkansas hills, Miss Margaret Thatcher Fitzhue Wildwood. Mag! My legs went so limp with relief I took a taxi the rest of the way home.


While Watching :
  1. What is Paul embarrassed about and what does he suggest to Holly?
  2. What is the surprising thing about Rusty?
  3. How has Paul been spending his time recently ?
  4. Why does Holly like Tiffany's ?
  5. Why won't Holly wear diamonds before she's forty?
  6. How much have they to spend on a present?
  7. What does the salesman offer them and what is the problem with it?
  8. What do they decide to do in the end and how does the salesman react?
  9. What does Holly think of the public library ?
  10. What things do they try to steal from the shop ?
After Watching :
Holly's idea is for them to 'spend the whole day doing things they have never done before. What four things do they do that they haven't done ?
  • Paul has never..................................................................................
  • Holly has never..................................................................................
  • Paul has never..................................................................................
  • Holly has never..................................................................................
Now ask your teacher how to play the "I've Never" game

Created and Maintained by: Graham Stanley
All Lesson Plans Copyright Graham Stanley, 1999
...but feel free to use them with your classes.

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