2nd blog entry..

Here I go again with another posting. I found it interesting that Capote decided to go into great detail about Dick and Perry getting ready before they went on their road trip to get the perfect score. He states how the two men were "as tidy as two dudes setting on a double date." Yet, they were far from going to do such an innocent task like going on a date. Dick and Perry were all trimmed and ready to go. Capote could have chose to put this detail in because it is ironic (here I go again). Why would two people who were off to rob a family for money who were planning to leave no living witnesses get all dressed up to perform such an act? This could be because the two were trying to casually fit in and not draw attention that wasn't needed. Holcomb was a small town and the kind of town where everyone knew everyone else and no one was a stranger.
Another thing I noticed was the dialogue that Capote wrote about between Dick and Perry. Dick is calling Perry "honey" and a "beauty" as they are getting ready. This is not normal for cellmates to call each other such feminine names. I think Capote had this dialogue between Dick and Perry as a joke because the two were getting all dressed up to go do a horrific act. The two knew they were going to kill someone because they had all the necessities needed in order to succeed in a murder. I also don't think that Dick or Perry would have told Capote about such a conversation when Capote interviewed them. Men that were once in prison don't want to even have the slightest chance of people thinking that there was more to their relationship than just being cellmates. Jokes on these kind of relationships are made all the time but two guys who killed a whole family would not want to be seen in that kind of light.