In the first thirty pages of In Cold Blood, Truman Capote discuses the characteristics of the main characters. He devotes a few pages to each character, speaking about their qualities and what exactly the characters did on November 14, 1959, the night that they prominent, farming Clutter family was ruthlessly murdered. Although Capote mentions all of the characters he focus’ most of his attention on Nancy, the youngest Clutter daughter. Nancy is introduced as, “The darling of the town, straight A student, the president of her class, a leader in the 4-H program and the Methodists league, and an excellent musician” (18). The people in the town all adore Nancy and the young women in the town all look up to and strongly admire Nancy. They are always asking Nancy for help, whether it be cooking, helping teach them a new song on the piano, or tutoring them for class, and no matter what is on her plate Nancy always has time to help the young women. Nancy’s mother, Mrs. Bonnie Clutter was experiencing some problems at the time and Nancy was accustomed to also cooking dinner, cleaning the house, etc as well as helping all of the young ladies while still making time to do things for herself. While Capote spent a lot of time talking about all the characters, he spent a significant amount of time discussing Nancy Clutter, the 16-year-old young lady that all the little girls in Holcomb County want to be.