Emotionally abnormal

Throughout the first three parts of In Cold Blood, Dick isn’t the most interesting or complex but the reader can sense that there sis something wrong with him. Although Dick seems normal as explained by Dr. Jones, “Richard Hickock is above average in intelligence…He is alert of what is happening around him, ad he shows no sign of mental confusion or disorientation” (294). Dick is smart and perfectly capable of living in a “normal” society. Dr. Jones isn’t sure that Dick has brain damage due to the accident in 1950, but Dr. Jones does say, “ Hickock does show signs of emotional abnormality” (294). Dick isn’t able to learn from experience and he does things without a conscience. Secretly he has a low self-esteem and feels he can’t please women sexually. The sexual inadequacy might explain why he preys on little girls because he can’t please women. Dr. Jones delves further into Dick’s emotional abnormality, “…he professes usual standards he seems obviously uninfluenced by them in his action…he shows typical characteristics of what would psychiatrically be called a severe character disorder” (295). This might explain why he shows no kind of emotion after the murder he acted like nothing happened. Although the reader figures out what is really wrong with Dick. I still have no sympathy for him, at least not sympathy as I have for Perry.