Perry and Dicks Relationship; Not a Two Way Street

Perry listens and respects Dick, while Dick shuts Perry’s dreams down for laughter; this relationship is clearly not reciprocal. Perry literally killed for Dick. Perry only murdered to start a new life, the life he has been fanaticizing about for some time now. For example, Capote describes Perry at a diner, he states, “Perry felt elatedly tall- now Mexico, a new chance a ‘really living’ life” (99). Perry clearly only agreed to murder the Clutter’s in order to start fresh, give himself a brand new beginning, and leave all of his sadness behind him, and start living in Mexico, like Dick said that they would. Perry kills for Dick because he wants to, but Dick is a hypocrite, doesn’t go on his word like Perry did with the murders, and laughs in Perry’s face about Mexico. Capote describes, “Dick had only been pretending, just kidding him” (100). Perry would never do the same thing as Dick did to him. When Perry says he will do a “score” he does it, no matter if he really did want to kill the Clutters or not, he does it because he made a vow, and he believes to never go back on his word. Perry only murders the Clutter’s because he believes that after the murders are over with, he can start a new life; in a way, the murders were closure for him to his life that he wanted to leave behind. However, Perry did it for nothing; Dick’s word was a complete fallacy. This is a clear representation of their relationship.