Handcarved Coffins
In Truman Capote’s novella, “Handcarved Coffins: A Nonfiction Account of an American Crime,” he gives a detailed description of numerous murders brilliantly executed in “a town in a small Western state” (Capote 68). These murders are so meticulously organized that the perpetrator is never brought to justice. However, the identity of the killer is brought to light by a detective named Jake Pepper. Jake ultimately points his finger at the prominent Robert Hawley Quinn, Esquire. (Esquire was added by Jake, not as a gentlemanly gesture, as is suggested, but to show the irony in his personality.) Jake’s despise of Quinn is revealed when he quotes Mark Twain, “Of all the creatures that were made, man is the most detestable. Of the entire brood he is the only one, the solitary one, that possesses malice. That is beset of all instincts, passions, vices—the most hateful. He is the only one creature that inflicts pain only for sport, knowing it to be pain. Also in all......
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