Collin Fenwick and his eccentric aunt Dolly Talbo resemble characters seen in A Christmas Memory (1966), and the young male orphan taken in by a dominant female relative also appears in Other Voices, Other Rooms (1948; see separate entry). In addition, a young man's coming of age is the major theme in Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958; see separate entry) and Capote's unfinished work Answered Prayers (posthumously published in 1987).