She paints those that help/work for McGinniss as well as McGinniss himself as concerned about money and status. An example of this is McGinniss’s lawyer Kornstein, who acts antagonistically towards Malcolm. He acts dismissive of her and repeats “I’m sorry, I can’t answer you” (Kornstein, quoted in Malcolm Part 2, 1969, p. 69) several times throughout their interaction. Before she leaves, he also asks her if she “[knows] anything about [him]” (Kornstein, quoted in Malcolm Part 2, 1989, p. 70) in an attempt to assert importance and authority. Malcolm similarly regards McGinniss as disingenuous: “When, two days later, he called to cancel our future interviews and to say ‘I want to put all this behind me,’ I was not surprised, and rather relieved: I had begun to sense that McGinniss’s confession to me was not a new one” (Malcolm Part 1, 1989, pg 40). Both McGinniss and Kornstein had a strange distance to the case and did not want any more involvement, which consequently led to their portrayal in writing as reserved and
She paints those that help/work for McGinniss as well as McGinniss himself as concerned about money and status. An example of this is McGinniss’s lawyer Kornstein, who acts antagonistically towards Malcolm. He acts dismissive of her and repeats “I’m sorry, I can’t answer you” (Kornstein, quoted in Malcolm Part 2, 1969, p. 69) several times throughout their interaction. Before she leaves, he also asks her if she “[knows] anything about [him]” (Kornstein, quoted in Malcolm Part 2, 1989, p. 70) in an attempt to assert importance and authority. Malcolm similarly regards McGinniss as disingenuous: “When, two days later, he called to cancel our future interviews and to say ‘I want to put all this behind me,’ I was not surprised, and rather relieved: I had begun to sense that McGinniss’s confession to me was not a new one” (Malcolm Part 1, 1989, pg 40). Both McGinniss and Kornstein had a strange distance to the case and did not want any more involvement, which consequently led to their portrayal in writing as reserved and