Although Capote strives to improve Perry’s story and defend him, he is obviously shown as a psychopath; therefore it is essential to understand even murders have humanizing characteristics. Capote uses litotes to achieve the affect of how others look at Perry at first before they truly know what he is capable of. When Perry is in the cell he is very quiet to Josie Meier the sheriff's wife, later when she gets home she tells her husband, “...and I decided- well he wasn’t the worst young man I ever saw” (Capote 253). Perry came off very gentle to her and she was very astonished that a man like that could kill a family. She may see him as kind but ignored that he was very intimidated by her not just “shy”. He felt very uncomfortable just being
