How Does Truman Capote Use Metaphors In Chapter 1

Although Truman Capote presents the reader with an ordinary, rural town filled with joyous elation and faith, He converts it into a melancholy town lacking any kind of faith residing in it; therefore, Capote reveals that even with the most splendid places, corrupt thoughts and people can taint it to the very core. Fresh in the beginning of the chapter Capote uses a metaphor to present the horrors of what happened in the previous chapters and how it affects those around the. Capote starts out with explaining Herb Clutter 's close friends then he tells of something unusual to the norm, stating, “Today this quartet of old hunting companions had once again gathered to make the familiar journey, but in an unfamiliar spirit and armed with odd, non-sportive equipment - mops and pails, scrubbing brushes , and a hamper heaped with rags and strong detergents.”(Capote 77) They came with different equipment because they came for a different reason. To cleanup the mess left by the murderers. They felt that it was “their duty, a Christian task” to clean up the Clutter’s house but it is actually cleaning the town of the bloodshed and uncertainty the people of Holcomb have. The metaphor

It starts out with a quick conversation between Dewey and his wife where she says to him ”Only, when you come home tonight, you 'll have to ring the bell. I’ve had all of the locks changed.” The norm for Dewey has changed and that the murder affected his family too. Then after he hangs up one of his colleagues asked, “What’s wrong? Marie scared?” Dewey responds with “Hell, yes… Her, and everyone else.”(87) Zeugma is active here because Capote applies that both Dewey’s wife and everyone else in Holcomb is scared of being killed in their own homes. Showing the fear inside of Holcomb and everyone drastically changing Holcombs entire nature of trust to