Breakfast at Tiffany's Friendship Quotes

This reveals to us Joe Bell's definition of friendship. He is appalled that the narrator thinks Holly is really involved in the mess with Sally Tomato. For Joe, true friendship is the complete belief in a friend's innocence.

So, Holly actually does think about someone other than herself. For her, friendship cannot exist without loyalty (even if we think her loyalty might be a little misguided in this case.

In the end, the narrator just misses his friend a great deal. He wants to share the accomplishments of his life with her, and he feels her absence in a very real way.