in cold blood talk show

if i were a talk show host and had to invite one character from in cold blood by truman capote, i would choose to interview perry smith. i would choose him because he really is an unstable character and i would like to learn more about that – it is obvious he is dealing with many mental illnesses such as severe anxiety and depression, and i am very interested in that (mental illnesses, disorders, and abnormal psychology as a whole). i would ask if anything in specific triggered these illnesses to arise, or if it was just him bad home life in general – which i would also ask about. in some parts of the book, he seems like he’s not fit for the life of crime, while in others, he confesses to brutal murders and considered another two murders as well as suicide. i want to know which side of him is the real one.

one huge question i would have for him is why he did what he did at the murder scene, which was setting everyone up in comfortable positions, even though he was planning to kill them/knew they were going to die within the next minute or do. it just doesn’t add up to me – why would you even bother wasting your time to do that? if you really felt bad enough for them that you went out of your way to make them comfortable and even speak to the daughter for about then minutes, why would you kill them?

the last topic i would want to ask about is if he even trusted wells in the first place (the one that told dick and perry about the clutters), or if he was just going along with dick’s plan or some reason.