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Capote uses a single, melodious sentence to express…

Here, at this stage of the novel, Capote registers a tone of…

Capote offers his endorsement of simple, honest American life which is forced to confront itself in the course of the text.

the primal nature of the evil that has seeped into the lives of Holcomb - it does not belong to the society, but instead cuts through layers of social and cultural expectations and comfortable relationships

Here, Capote highlights the dual faces of US society, in his attempt to catalogue both the comforting and confronting reality of his readers’ context

Hickcock’s cavalier attitude to life and death and his romantic vagabond spirit are paired with his disregard for life and property

Here, Capote employs a characteristic quality of his journalistic nonfiction in the faithful recreation of Perry’s speech patterns

introduce an element of conflict into their reception of Perry’s character.

capote makes central the question of the inevitability of criminality, including the extent to which a traumatic and deprived upbringing can be said to contribute to future wrongdoing.

If there is a clear assignation of value by the author here however, it is conferred on education; Perry and Hickcock were both denied an education, and blame their failure and criminality on squandered opportunities.