I'm Cold Blood

Question 1

Rural America

Answer 1

“lonesome area”
“Aimless congregation of buildings”
“They were outdoor folk of varied stock- German, Irish, Norweigian, Mexican, Japanese”

Question 2

Religion

Answer 2

“He did not smoke, and of course he did not drink”
“Though subscribed to several periodicals, non of these rested in her bedside tabke- only the bible”
“he was was sorry, but it was not for him- heaven, hell, saints, divine mercy”

Question 3

Men and masculinity

Answer 3

“Mr clutter enjoyed the chore, and was excellent at it-no woman in Kansas baked a better loaf”
“compared to himself, so authentically tough, invulnerable”
“eminent republican and church leader”

Question 4

Women and Femininity

Answer 4

“Nancy Clutter is always in a hurry, but she always has the time. And that’s one definition of a lady”
“Instead she met and married Herb”
“She liked it too well, so much that it seemed to her unchristian”

Question 5

Family

Answer 5

“The clutters had so ardently adopted her that the fatherless girl from California soon came to seek like a member of the family”

“not spoilt but spared, led to suppose that life was a sequence of agreeable events”

Question 6

Criminality

Answer 6

“people thought maybe, in account of her spells”

“I thought the answer might be another woman- a triangle… she was semi-invalid, she slept in a separate room”

Question 7

Madness

Answer 7

“Little spells”
“a natural born killer”
“‘He might be ready to kill you, but you’d never know it’”

Question 8

Plans and Dreams

Answer 8

“Always certain of what he wanted from the world, Mr Clutter had in large measure obtained it”
“the son of a farmer, he had from the beginning aimed at operating a property of his own”
“Stoked a longing to realise an adventure his imagination swiftly and over and over enabled him to experience”