What is a main setting in In Cold Blood?

Question

in one sentence only can someone explain the importance of the setting in the work (how the setting develops plot, character, conflict, or tone)?

Answer 1

In Cold Blood is an intensely researched true crime novel with commentary on how fragile living the American dream is and how quickly and abruptly it was shattered by criminals.

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Answer 2

The LEAST you can do is go to sparknotes.com/lit/incoldblood   , though you'd be better off figuring it out on your own (but we know THAT'S  not happening, right?)

Answer 3

The book opens with Capote's description of western Kansas, where the story takes place, emphasizing particularly the openness of the landscape, where horses, herds of cattle, a white cluster of grain elevators rising as gracefully as Greek temples are visible long before a traveler reaches them. This is the kind of landscape where one could never hide, so open and empty that not a soul sleeping in Holcomb heard themfour shotgun blasts that, all told, ended six human lives.

Source:  "In Cold Blood," in Literature Resource Center, Gale Research

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