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Mag Wildwood
Rusty Trawler is an outgoing man whose flushed demeanor makes him seem like a child with a grown man’s body. Rusty’s wealthy parents died when he was very young, making news because his father was killed by an anarchist (his mother died shortly thereafter of shock). Public attention centered on Rusty again when he later accused his godfather of “sodomy” (it’s unclear if this means his godfather had sexual relations with him or with someone else), and then he made news once again when he went through the first of his three divorces. When the narrator meets him, Rusty is a Nazi-sympathizer who has been seeing Holly, and everyone thinks they’ll most likely get married. Holly, for her part, admits that she would only do so because Rusty is rich, especially because the marriage wouldn’t be real, anyway, since Rusty is gay. Despite what everyone thinks, though, Rusty ends up marrying Mag Wildwood. This leaves Holly free to marry José, though this never happens, either.
Rusty Trawler Quotes in Breakfast at Tiffany’s
The Breakfast at Tiffany’s quotes below are all either spoken by Rusty Trawler or refer to Rusty Trawler. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Breakfast at Tiffany’s
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“Rusty thinks I should smoke marijuana, and I did for a while, but it only makes me giggle. What I’ve found does the most good is just to get into a taxi and go to Tiffany’s. It calms me down right away, the quietness and the proud look of it; nothing very bad could happen to you there, not with those kind men in their nice suits, and that lovely smell of silver and alligator wallets. If I could find a real-life place that made me feel like Tiffany’s, then I’d buy some furniture and give the cat a name.”
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Or, and the question is apparent, was my outrage a little the result of being in love with Holly myself? A little. For I was in love with her. Just as I’d once been in love with my mother’s elderly colored cook and a postman who let me follow him on his rounds and a whole family named McKendrick. That category of love generates jealousy, too.
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Rusty Trawler Quotes in Breakfast at Tiffany’s
The Breakfast at Tiffany’s quotes below are all either spoken by Rusty Trawler or refer to Rusty Trawler. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Breakfast at Tiffany’s
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“Rusty thinks I should smoke marijuana, and I did for a while, but it only makes me giggle. What I’ve found does the most good is just to get into a taxi and go to Tiffany’s. It calms me down right away, the quietness and the proud look of it; nothing very bad could happen to you there, not with those kind men in their nice suits, and that lovely smell of silver and alligator wallets. If I could find a real-life place that made me feel like Tiffany’s, then I’d buy some furniture and give the cat a name.”
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Or, and the question is apparent, was my outrage a little the result of being in love with Holly myself? A little. For I was in love with her. Just as I’d once been in love with my mother’s elderly colored cook and a postman who let me follow him on his rounds and a whole family named McKendrick. That category of love generates jealousy, too.
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