Holly flyttade helt enkelt männen för sina pengar, uppenbarligen att betala toalettskötaren , men i själva verket fick hon pengar och använde det för att betala sina hyres- och levnadsutgifter.
I source novella får vi denna utbyte;
"I wasn't impressed by the honorarium either; you can do as well as that on tips to the powder room: any gent with the slightest chic will give you fifty for the girl's john, and I always ask for cab fare too; that's another fifty.".
Observera att Holly inte är en prostituerad (sällan sover hon med sina datum) så mycket som en semi-professionell " bra tjej ", vilket gör männen att betala för hennes företag under förevändning att vara på ett riktigt datum.
Truman Capote talade om Holly i en Playboyartikel från 1968
Playboy: Would you elaborate on your comment that Holly was the prototype of today's liberated female and representative of a "whole breed of girls who live off men but are not prostitutes. They're our version of the geisha girl..."?
Capote: Holly Golightly was not precisely a call girl. She had no job, but accompanied expense-account men to the best restaurants and night clubs, with the understanding that her escort was obligated to give her some sort of gift, perhaps jewelry or a check ... if she felt like it, she might take her escort home for the night. So these girls are the authentic American geishas, and they're much more prevalent now than in 1943 or 1944, which was Holly's era