Perry, a character who commits appalling crimes and at the same time is capable of a strange level of sentimentality. When he engages with Willie-Jay, Perry is taken aback by Willie-Jay’s belief that Perry has the power to take control of his life and not leave it up to the fate he views as inevitable. In Willie-Jay’s presence Perry appears relieved that someone whom he looks up to, accepts him and does not see the monster he perceives himself to be when taking a look at his own skin. Here marks a time when readers can garner a glimpse of a poorly guarded Perry and witness who he is when unworried by other people’s reactions or Dick’s dissuasions. Perry trusts Willie-Jay and trusting someone with what is inside one’s heads reveals who one is…show more content… Perry and Dick blame their actions on people and events they believe set them on a course of destruction, while the people of Holcomb’s realization of Dick and Perry’s involvement in the demise of the Clutter family, limit their search of a possible decency within the two. Upon reminiscing, both of the culprits come to the same conclusion: that they ended up where they did because of their misfortunes, instead of accepting responsibility for their behavior. Perry places blame on his upbringing and therefore on his father and last living sibling and Dick on an unfair economy. Capote utilizes similes and cathartic expressions to achieve his goal of proving that plenty is omitted because of the narrow lens people sometimes choose to look through. The author suggest that when one allows their perception to falter, one begins to create a nonexistent reality when he says, “when the crowd caught sight of the murderers … it fell silent, as though amazed to find them humanly shaped” (248). He indicates that the citizens of Holcomb quickly judged the criminals for the crime accused of and in their minds began trying to make sense of how such a thing could take place. With the use of the simile, the author reveals that the only thing they could think of capable of the acts committed is a monster, leaving little room in their
