How does barbara feel about perry

Barbara was loathed by Perry and this must have made her feel resented. Respect and sincerity are two things Perry has never really shown and will probably not due to him feeling like Barbara is scrutinising him and so he just resents her more making Barbara feel extremely disrespect, I know she feels extremely disrespected because the italics are used to emphasize her feelings.

Something Perry is blind to. This material is available only on Freebooksummary. Obviously she mentioned how they seem to be coping with the incidents with Jimmy, Fern and also praising mum and dad for passing on their artistic flair.

Barbara admitted that even though their environment played a role in their growing up, she felt grateful for those experiences. I am sure that made him feel good and his ego boosted because I assumed he was ticked off a bit having read the letter to that point. Nonetheless Barbara continued and this time introduced the issue with his dad, which is a very sensitive issue for Perry because he had a sticky relationship with him.

Interestingly Capote presented Barbara as she struggles with her own emotions and the whole issue. She believed that her dad loved Perry more than he had loved her. His father built a mobile home and the two traveled the country together.

Perry joined the merchant marine when he was 16 and the army after that. He was on his way to join his father in Alaska after finishing his service, but a motorcycle wreck delayed him in Washington State for a year.

He helped his father build a roadside lodge, but it never gained much business. He and his father began to starve, and they have a falling out over the last biscuit. He headed for Massachusetts, where he planned to meet up with an old army man, but along the way he fell in with "bad company" and robbed an office supply store in Kansas.

They were arrested, but Perry escaped in a stolen car. He went to Massachusetts, but failed to find his friend. He moved to New York for a while, but eventually the Federal Bureau of Investigation caught up with him and brought him back to jail in Kansas--where he met Dick.

By this time, his mother had died, his brother Jimmy had killed himself, and his sister Fern had "fallen" out of a window. He finds a letter that his remaining sister Barbara wrote him while he was in jail.

It scolds Perry for feeling sorry for himself and for blaming their father and his childhood for his troubles. Perry loathes his sister. Perry also finds an interpretation of his sister's letter, written by his prison friend Willie-Jay.

In quasi-intellectual language, Wille-Jay writes that Barbara is obviously a conformist. He writes that it shows she is full of human frailings. The interpretation is full of quotations from Barbara's letter.

Perry also finds some of his own notebooks. One is a "dictionary" of odd words that Perry has learned, such as "Thanatoid" or "Depredate. All this time, Dick has been making love on the other bed to Inez, a prostitute he has promised to marry.

Dewey has been working very hard on the case, almost to the point of exhaustion. He is on his way to check over River Valley Farm, a habit of his.

On the way, he stops at Hartman's Cafe, where some citizens harass him, asking him to arrest somebody soon so their wives will stop being afraid. Dick and Perry are hitchhiking in the Mojave Desert. They have almost nothing. They are waiting for a car that they can rob.