In Cold Blood Xxxxx Flashcards
Perry
“‘I finished the first grade,’ Perry recalled, ‘which was the finish’”
“Mush and Hershey kisses and condensed milk”
“Say there wasn’t any difference between niggers and indians”
“Thick, crouching torso of a weight-lifter”
“No taller than a 12-year-old child”
“You think I like myself? Oh, the man I could have been!”
Dick
“I promise you, honey, we’re gonna blast hair all of them walls”
“Deal me out, baby I’m normal”
“But at the time I never gave any thought to whether it is right or wrong”
“he was like a wife that must be got rid of”
Nancy
“She’s got character. Gets it from her old man”
Dewey
“I’m going to know what happend in that house; the why and the who”
“I’m haunted by them”
Surroundings
“Stands on high wheat plains”
“Handsome white house… place people pointed out”
“Only person who locked doors round there was Mrs Helm”
Religion
“He did not smoke and of course he did not drink”
“he was sorry, but it was not for him—heaven, hell, saints, divine mercy”
“But thats impossible. Can you imagine mr clutter missing church?”
Masculinity
“Mr Clutter out of necessity had learned to cook”
“Totally masculine” (Perry about Brick)
“A fearless self-assurance that set him apart”
“total of eighteen men were assigned to the case full-time”
“wife, children—those were experiences a man ought to have”
Feminity
“Nancy Clutter is always in a hurry, but she always has time. And that’s one definition of a lady”
“just to prove”—as she had told a friend, “that I once succeeded at something.”
Family
“led to suppose that life was a sequence of agreeable events”
“church every Sunday, grace before meals, prayers before bed”
“On their way, and never coming back—without regret, as far as [Perry] was concerned”
