Based on Capotes personal life and this non-fiction novel In Cold Blood, it proves that Capote has an overall pessimistic outlook. This novel retell a true story, set in Holcomb, Kansas which is seemingly perfect. Capote uses imagery to display Holcomb and the neighboring areas as plain, friendly and pure. He then presents the Clutter family as the perfect family. Describing Nancy baking pies and of Herb’s success, but just as soon as he introduces us to paradise, Capote snatches it away, revealing the distrust and murder. Within the first couple of pages Capote describes Holcomb and Garden City involving details found on page 53,” Signs , their messages ignited by the car’s headlights, flared up, flew by : “ See the Polar Bears,” Burtis
