Breakfast pie

Holly Golightly, carrying a paper bag containing her breakfast. After looking into the store’s window displays, she strolls to her apartment and has to fend off her date from the night before. As she is leaving, Holly is introduced to Paul’s “breakfast pie”, wealthy older woman Emily Eustace Failenson, whom Paul nicknames “2E”.

That night, when Holly goes out onto the fire escape to elude an over-eager date, she peeks into Paul’s apartment and sees 2E leaving money and kissing him goodbye. Visiting Paul afterward, she learns he is a writer who has not had anything published since a book of vignettes five years before. Some time later, 2E enters Paul’s apartment, worried she is being followed. Paul tells her he will investigate and eventually confronts Holly’s husband, Doc Golightly, who explains that Holly’s real name is Lula Mae Barnes and that they were married when she was approaching 14. Now he wants to take her back to rural Texas.

After Paul reunites Holly and Doc, she informs Paul that the marriage was annulled. After drinking at a club, Paul and Holly return to her apartment, where she drunkenly tells him that she plans to marry Trawler for his money. A few days later, Paul learns that one of his short stories will be published. On the way to tell Holly, he sees a newspaper headline stating that Trawler has married someone else. Holly now schemes to marry José for his money, but after receiving a telegram notifying her of her brother’s death in a jeep accident, she trashes her apartment.

Months later, she invites Paul to dinner, as she is leaving the next morning for Brazil to continue her relationship with José. However, the pair are arrested in connection with Sally Tomato’s drug ring, and Holly spends the night in jail. The next morning, Hollywood friend O. Paul is waiting for her in a cab, bringing her pet, “Cat”, and a letter from José explaining that he must end their relationship due to her arrest. Cat out into the pouring rain. Just after they get underway again, Paul storms out of the cab, tossing the engraved ring into her lap and telling her to examine her life.