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How does Capote subvert the state laws about the psychiatric evaluation?
He offers the psychiatrist who evaluated Dick and Perry a space to give a lengthy discourse on their levels of sanity and their disordered personalities, a luxury the state law didn't allow. This allows Capote's account to be more nuanced and more complex than the official reports or testimony.
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How do the autobiographical statements written by Dick and Perry affect your feelings about them? How does the psychiatric evaluation affect your feelings about them?
This harkens back to a thought question from the previous day. Given both men's family lives, and both men's...
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