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Truman Capote's Short Story 'A Christmas Memory'

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One universal theme in the short story “A Christmas Memory” is poverty. It is a story of two friends that live together and prepare for Christmas. Their tradition for the holiday is to bake fruit cakes, decorate a tree, and exchange presents, but the friends are very poor and at the end of all the celebration they are left close to being broke.The first tradition is that they make fruitcakes. When they go to buy the whiskey from the gloomy, tall, and scared Indian man and he sees them paying with pennies he feels bad and barters with the the whiskey for the fruit cake (Capote 4). They had to mail some of the finished cakes to their friends, and that cost them most of their money. The decorations for the tree were,”coils of frazzled tinsel

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