In Cold Blood | Techniques
The most obvious technique in In Cold Blood is the journalistic one. After his first fiction was published Capote turned to journalism for money and because it interested him as an art form. With In Cold Blood he was ready to impose the structures of fiction onto a factual event. During the 1950s he had published a number of nonfiction pieces, most notably The Muses Are Heard (1956) for which he was criticized for being possibly less than objective. Of course he wasn't objective.
The whole tour is seen through his sly, glittering eyes. That was his achievement. Just...
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