“Now, on this final day of her life, Mrs. Clutter hung in the closet the calico housedress she had been wearing and put on one of her trailing nightgowns and a fresh set of sweater socks” (Capote 25). That statement reals it's fiction statement because it makes the reader think the author is making this scene up because it's so detailed he would have to be there with her. He actually gets information from people around her that had. The attention to detail is so precise and by normalizing her life and not seeming interested in her life makes his journalist approach credible. The research that Capote conducted blended hardcore facts from the interview and first handed accounts with descriptive fictional elements throughout the