As I read Truman Capote's "A Christmas Memory", which was published in Selected Writings in 1958, I started asking myself a few of questions. I asked myself, "How can two people with such an incredible age difference be such good friends"" As I looked deeper into the story and the characters, I came to realize that Buddy and his cousin, who I will refer to as Emily, did not bound their friendship with petty things like age. They based their friendship on things of much more substance and value. Some may say that Emily was an unsuitable friend for Buddy but I beg to differ with those people on that one. I believe they are such good friends because they were both children in mind and soul. They also confided in one another. It was these such qualities which drew them so close together.

Certain quotes stuck out to...