Only the third one and I'm already not in the mood for another one. I read up to the second section of the book at work (yes I had nothing better to do). One part of the way that the book is set up that I found interesting is how the sections of the book are. Each other "chapter" of the book in the first section is told from different view points. One chapter is told from the perspective of Dick and Perry and the next is from people who live in the town of Holcomb. This is interesting because it is constantly giving the reader two different ways of looking at the book. It is almost like a story within a story. The reader sees the story unfold as Capote tells about all the events that happened to Dick and Perry leading up to the murder of the Clutter family and at the same time he tells the story of what was going on in the Clutter family before they were murdered. It also seems to further separate the connection that Dick and Perry had to the Clutters. The chapters show that Dick and Perry really had nothing to do with the Clutter family before or after their death.
Capote tells about the certain events that lead up to Dick and Perry killing the Clutters. One event is when Dick and Perry stop at a gas station just outside of Holcomb. Perry goes inside the gas station to use the bathroom while Dick waits outside. While Perry is in the bathroom, he is portrayed as having "cold feet." It seems like Perry is not interested in the task that Dick asked him to assist him in. Dick asked Perry to help him pull off this job because Perry once told him how he killed a man in Las Vegas for no reason and this made it seem like Perry was perfect for the job. But, Perry is not just a cold hearted killer and he just secretly wanted to go out to Holcomb because it was close to a city where one of Perry's friends that he met while he was in prison was. This friend, Willie-Jay, was just about to get out of prison at the time Perry would be in Holcomb and Perry desperately wanted to see him. This didn't work out though and Perry now had a feeling he didn't want to go to the Clutter house anymore. I think Capote adds in this detail to show that Perry was just an accomplice and shouldn't have been accused for the murders like Dick was. I could also see Perry telling Capote this when he was interviewed by Capote because he would be trying to pin the whole incident on Dick. It's interesting because now it seems as if Capote is on Perry's side. So I will just have to see how the rest of the book goes.
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one suggestion right away, try and include page numbers. i'm pretty sure we're supposed to include that somewhere in the entry but trust me, i'm not sitting here with the book at my side so its more of a precaution so wells sees it and doesn't have to go looking. but anyway, the suggestion of capote being on perry's side seems very realistic to me and i don't disagree with it. especially since i remember mr wells saying something about capote having some type of feelings for him and that would certainly come through in writing. its interesting how all the little details are coming together and we're not even that far into the novel. [i know my capitalization and punctuation are probably not perfect, but these are blogs and thus, less formal]
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