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Breakfast at Tiffany's follows the story of a young girl named Holly Golightly who moves to New York City. She establishes a life in New York and supports herself by accompanying men to events like a high-end escort. Holly wants the finer things in life and is looking for a wealthy man. One day a man named Paul Varjak moves into her building, Paul is a modest writer. He is seeing a wealthy married older woman at the time. Paul and Holly hit it off and slowly get to know each other. Throughout the movie, they face issues that prevent them from being together, but it adds to the drama of the movie. Breakfast at Tiffany's is a dramatic love story and for that reasons, there are many things keeping them apart and it is done so that everything is much bigger than it would be in real life.

The friendship that occurs between Holly and Paul is theatrical with twists and turns. Their path to being together is not direct. The obstacles that stand in the way of their relationship is melodramatic from the acting to the music. In one particular scene, Holly’s character goes through a series of emotions during her relationship with Paul. Holly beings the scene happy and curious. During her conversation with Paul, she quickly becomes distraught and begins to cry. By the end of the scene, Holly is in a state of exhaustion and falls asleep. During each of these emotions Holly’s character makes it extremely apparent how she is feeling, each emotion is exaggerated with a lot of shouting and tears. In addition, the plot itself is melodramatic because there is a sense of sadness and loneliness between these two characters. As the viewer, you don’t have a lot of hope for these two to be together.