The American Dream is an idealistic aspect of living that the majority of people have incessantly striven for. For Truman Capote, this dream was an equivocally opaque idea that praises a conception coinciding with Thomas Jefferson’s’ idea of the pursuit of happiness, including materialist abundance to be equivalent to happiness, it being that glamour and luxury is the key to a fulfilling lifestyle. This obscured notion was a concept that Capote has challenged about society through his literary works. According to Wikipedia, Truman Capote was an American author, actor, playwright, and screenwriter; whom many of his novels, plays, and short-stories have been recognized as literary classics. Truman Capote’s greatest literary strength was having …show more content…
His clarity of what he grasped as the truth is demonstrated throughout In Cold Blood, which he intended to dispute the perception that there is an impeccable objective to seek. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote is a nonfiction novel that portrays the American Dream that demonstrates how this perceptional dream inspired two ruthless men to have a lust for wealth. The novel narrates the tragedy of the homicidal bloodshed of the Clutter family. Capote reveals the motives that lead the murderers to commit such a heinous crime. The family was living in Holcomb, Kansas, and on November 15, 1959, they were savagely murdered by Perry Smith and Dick Hickock. The family was discovered restrained, and ruthlessly murdered by blasts from a shotgun, shredding their faces. Only money and items that could be pawned were missing from the home. As far as detectives could tell, there was no evident incentive for the malefaction, and there was virtually no evidence. In this location, the American Dream seemed as if it were indestructible, “'Howdy, Stranger! Welcome to Garden City. A friendly place" (In Cold Blood). Capote talks about the near perfect location and