In Cold Blood (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Truman Capote
- First Published: 1966
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Detective and mystery
- Time of Work: 1959
- Setting: Kansas
- Genres: Nonfiction, New Journalism
- Subjects: 1950’s, Crime or criminals, Murder or homicide, Midwest, Moral conditions, Human behavior
- Locales: Kansas
Characters Discussed
Perry Edward Smith, a superstitious and sentimental man, an inveterate dreamer with an explosive personality. As a child, Perry was shunted from one orphanage to another, neglected by an alcoholic mother and a father who drifted in search of gold. Perry joined the merchant marine, then the Army, serving a four-year hitch. A motorcycle crash left him with permanently disfigured legs and constant pain. He escapes from a Kansas jail, where he is serving a sentence for burglary, but is recaptured and sent to prison, where he meets Dick Hickock. Dick’s plan to...
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