Quotations part 2

Question 1

1.Capote is describing the Clutter’s possessions being burned in a big bonfire

Answer 1

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?

Question 2

2.Description of one of Perry’s dreams

Answer 2

It was after one of these beatings that the parrot appeared… gently lifted him, enfolded him, winged him away to paradise

Question 3

3.Dick and Perry are talking after the murders- they are on their way to Mexico
Perry:

Answer 3

Know what I think? I think there must be something wrong with us. To do what we did

Question 4

4.Dick and Perry are talking after the murders - they are on their way to Mexico
Dick:

Answer 4

Deal me out, baby… I’m a normal

Question 5

5.Capote describing detective Nye

Answer 5

In brief, Nye learned only this: “Of all the people in the world, the Clutters were the least likely to be murdered”

Question 6

6.Capote describing Perry’s desire to be liked by Dick

Answer 6

…It was because he’d wanted Dick’s friendship, wanted Dick to “Respect” him, think him “Hard”, as much “The masculine type” as he had considered Dick to be

Question 7

7.Capote describing Perry

Answer 7

Of course, Perry could have struck out on his own, stayed in Mexico, let Dick go where damn well he wannted. Why not? Hadn’t he always been “A loner”, and without any “Real friends”

Question 8

8.Capote describing Dick

Answer 8

There were thos Dick claimed to love: three son’s, a mother, a father, a brother- persons he hadn’t dared confide his plans to, or big goodbye, though he never expected to see them again- not in his life

Question 9

Description of how Perry feel’s about his siter Barbara

Answer 9

He loathed her