Dick And Perry Character Analysis
Dicks Manipulation Over Perry
Although Dick and Perry are equally seen to be evil, Capote explains how both a positive and negative atmosphere can influence one’s actions; therefore, he portrays how Perry is easily susceptible of those who he surrounds himself with.
Perry, as formerly explained throughout part 1, grew up having not the same morals ground into his life as his partner, Dick. As Perry fills his life with different people, of opposing personalities, his own traits begin to change as well from what they once were. As Perry explains a sentimental dream to Dick, “He could not help noticing that Dick, busy gouging under his fingernails with a fork prong, was uninterested in his dream” (Capote 92). This amplifies the relationship between …show more content…
In Perry’s words, he explains his dream from when he was seven years old, “that the parrot appeared, arrived while he slept, a bird “taller than Jesus, yellow like a sunflower,” a warrior-angel who blinded the nuns with its beak. Fed upon their eyes, slaughtered them as they “pleaded for mercy,” then so gently lifted them, enfolded them, winged him to “paradise” (Capote 93). The brief description of Perry's feelings, shown by using an anecdote, represents how Perry’s emotions have changed after meeting Dick and that something from decades before, has returned to his memory, making the reader feel that the reason it came back to his mind was that he was thinking how terrified he was in those moments of his dream which relates to the present time of being with Dick. The allusion Perry uses is that Dick is the parrot, and the parrot has changed who Perry is as a person, however Perry hasn’t completely noticed the influence of his negative surroundings, in this case Dick, has made on him. Before, he was just a child from a California orphanage, but over the years, from the drastic impact from others, Perry has turned into a lifeless
Although Dick and Perry are equally seen to be evil, Capote explains how both a positive and negative atmosphere can influence one’s actions; therefore, he portrays how Perry is easily susceptible of those who he surrounds himself with.
Perry, as formerly explained throughout part 1, grew up having not the same morals ground into his life as his partner, Dick. As Perry fills his life with different people, of opposing personalities, his own traits begin to change as well from what they once were. As Perry explains a sentimental dream to Dick, “He could not help noticing that Dick, busy gouging under his fingernails with a fork prong, was uninterested in his dream” (Capote 92). This amplifies the relationship between …show more content…
In Perry’s words, he explains his dream from when he was seven years old, “that the parrot appeared, arrived while he slept, a bird “taller than Jesus, yellow like a sunflower,” a warrior-angel who blinded the nuns with its beak. Fed upon their eyes, slaughtered them as they “pleaded for mercy,” then so gently lifted them, enfolded them, winged him to “paradise” (Capote 93). The brief description of Perry's feelings, shown by using an anecdote, represents how Perry’s emotions have changed after meeting Dick and that something from decades before, has returned to his memory, making the reader feel that the reason it came back to his mind was that he was thinking how terrified he was in those moments of his dream which relates to the present time of being with Dick. The allusion Perry uses is that Dick is the parrot, and the parrot has changed who Perry is as a person, however Perry hasn’t completely noticed the influence of his negative surroundings, in this case Dick, has made on him. Before, he was just a child from a California orphanage, but over the years, from the drastic impact from others, Perry has turned into a lifeless