Perry as a Superior

As Capote continues to develop Perry’s character, the reader comes to find that he feels himself superior. He is particularly proud of his ability to see things before they happen, which he believes that he possesses. He agrees with his friend Willie-Jay who pronounced that, “I had a high degree of ‘extrasensory perception’” (90). He pads this statement with various examples of his premonitions. The way he presents this believe exudes pride, and feeling of superiority. Perry is clearly excited to believe himself special, and different. He also seems to believe himself better educated than others, and likes to flaunt it. He mentions while reading the paper, “That’s incorrect. The grammar is. It ought to be ‘For this killer or these killers’” (89). This correction furthers the portrait of Perry as a superior know it all. His own psychology aids this theory. In his dreams, he sometimes fantasizes about heaven. He describes, “ascension to a paradise that in one version was merely “a feeling” a sense of power, of unassailable superiority” (93). Supremacy is his ultimate bliss.