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Mag Wildwood is a tall, striking woman who works as a model. After attending one of Holly’s parties (at which Holly tells all the men that Mag has a venereal disease, so they stop flirting with her), Mag gets outrageously drunk and never goes home. In fact, she starts living with Holly, and the narrator eavesdrops on them as they speak to one another on the fire escape, listening as Mag speaks with a stutter about her Brazilian boyfriend, José, a Brazilian politician whom she plans to marry. However, this never happens, perhaps because Mag suspects that Holly and José are in love after they all go on a vacation with Rusty Trawler. On this vacation, Holly and José spend quite a bit of time together. This is possibly why Mag later marries Rusty, and though Holly insisted there was nothing going on between her and José, she immediately falls into a relationship with him. When the narrator ends up calling everyone Holly knows to ask them to bail her out in the aftermath of her arrest, Mag tells him that she and Rusty never want to hear about Holly again.
Mag Wildwood Quotes in Breakfast at Tiffany’s
The Breakfast at Tiffany’s quotes below are all either spoken by Mag Wildwood or refer to Mag Wildwood. 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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“Fred’s that boy upstairs? I didn’t realize he was a soldier. But he does look stupid.”
“Yearning. Not stupid. He wants awfully to be on the inside staring out: anybody with their nose pressed against a glass is liable to look stupid. Anyhow, he’s a different Fred. Fred’s my brother.”
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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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Mag Wildwood Quotes in Breakfast at Tiffany’s
The Breakfast at Tiffany’s quotes below are all either spoken by Mag Wildwood or refer to Mag Wildwood. 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:
).
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Quotes
“Fred’s that boy upstairs? I didn’t realize he was a soldier. But he does look stupid.”
“Yearning. Not stupid. He wants awfully to be on the inside staring out: anybody with their nose pressed against a glass is liable to look stupid. Anyhow, he’s a different Fred. Fred’s my brother.”
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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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