Capote explores multiple aspects of a killer's psychology and attempts to tell Dick and Perry’s side of the story while exploring what led them to kill the Clutter family. Capote gave the readers an extensive backstory in an attempt to explain their psychological states, but as a result he also created relatable characters that sympathy from the readers. From a reader’s perspective this gives another dynamic to the story, but for the living Clutter family this made the killers relatable which sickened them greatly. By understanding all sides of the story, Capote told a complete story that gives the readers the complete story behind the quadruple murder.
Truman Capote explores the theme of nature vs nurture and investigates what makes a killer by giving an in-depth background on Dick and Perry. Dick had a rather normal childhood with both parents in a stable environment which elicits the debate of nature vs nurture and what could lead “normal” people to murdering the clutter family. On the contrary, when he was young, his …show more content…
The most common way that Dick was able to manipulate Perry is by adding honey or baby to the end of what he said. While in the Clutter house, Perry stopped Dick from doing an unspeakable act so Dick responded, “O.K., honey. If that’s the way you feel (244).” Although Perry was asserting his dominance in the moment by not allowing Dick to touch Nancy, by calling Perry honey he was attempting to manipulate Perry. One way Dick was able to keep Perry’s loyalty was by manipulating him, which is a very common characteristic of psychopaths. While in Mexico, they had pondered whether or not they should stay together and run or if they should split up and the consensus said that if they split up they would get caught, but it might’ve been Dick solidifying himself to manipulate Perry who had been a follower all his
Truman Capote explores the theme of nature vs nurture and investigates what makes a killer by giving an in-depth background on Dick and Perry. Dick had a rather normal childhood with both parents in a stable environment which elicits the debate of nature vs nurture and what could lead “normal” people to murdering the clutter family. On the contrary, when he was young, his …show more content…
The most common way that Dick was able to manipulate Perry is by adding honey or baby to the end of what he said. While in the Clutter house, Perry stopped Dick from doing an unspeakable act so Dick responded, “O.K., honey. If that’s the way you feel (244).” Although Perry was asserting his dominance in the moment by not allowing Dick to touch Nancy, by calling Perry honey he was attempting to manipulate Perry. One way Dick was able to keep Perry’s loyalty was by manipulating him, which is a very common characteristic of psychopaths. While in Mexico, they had pondered whether or not they should stay together and run or if they should split up and the consensus said that if they split up they would get caught, but it might’ve been Dick solidifying himself to manipulate Perry who had been a follower all his