With the discovery of the Clutter family murder Holcomb residents changed in the way they looked at each other. With no witnesses, very little evidence, and no explanation for the killing the people living in Holcomb began to look at their neighbors wondering if they killed the Clutters. This type of thought destroyed the trust in the town between people.
Mrs, Dewey asks her husband “ Alvin do you think we’ll ever get back to normal living?” because without witnesses the town was left to make up in their head’s what happened. They did so because there was no story being told that would assure the town folk that it was an outsider that killed the clutter family. As soon as people started to suspect