Part 2 Quotations Flashcards
Capote describing the Clutter’s possessions being burned in a big bonfire
‘How was it possible that such effort, such plain virtue, could overnight be reduced to this - smoke, thinning as it rose and was received by the big, annihilating sky?’
Capote describing Alvin Dewey
‘Solving the crime was a personal proposition’
Description of one of Perry’s dreams
‘It was after one of these beatings that the parrot appeared… gently lifted him, enfolded him, winged him away to paradise’
Perry talking after the murders while they are on their way to Mexico
‘Know what I think? I think there must be something wrong with us. To do what we did’
Dick talking after the murders while they are on their way to Mexico
‘Deal me out, baby… I’m a normal’
Capote describing Perry’s desire to be liked by Dick
‘It was because he’d wanted Dick’s friendship, wanted Dick to ‘respect’ him, thank him ‘hard’, as much ‘the masculine type’ as he had considered Dick to be’
Perry describing his family
‘Jimmy a suicide. Fern out the window. My mother dead’
Perry describing his mother
‘Always drink and never in a fit state to provide for us’
Description of how Perry feels about his sister Barbara
‘He loathed her’
Dick’s father talking about him to Detective Nye
‘An outstanding athlete - always on the first team at school… a good student too, with A marks in several subjects’
Dick’s father describing him
‘He wanted to go to college, but we couldn’t do it. Plain didn’t have the money. Never had any money’
Description of Dick’s mother from one of her neighbours
‘A heart ad big as a barn’
Description of Perry’s sister Barbara’s house in San Francisco
‘White picket fence’
Description of Perry’s sister Barbara
‘Middle income, middle class’
Description of Perry’s sister, Barbara and the way she felt everyone in her family was fated to lead a bad life
‘They shared a doom against which virtue was no defence’
