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Truman Capote “Out There” response In the beginning of the story Capote uses strong descriptions of the people that live in Holcomb to set the description for the whole town. By doing this I think it helps the reader paint a very real picture of the town. When he describes the people as having a “prairie twang and a ranch-hand nasal ness” and men wearing high-heeled boots with pointed toes” it automatically makes me picture an old out of date redneck town. As he goes on to describe the town’s size instead of telling the population right away he chooses to show the size by his descriptions. He starts out by saying “at one end of the town stands a dark stucco structure, the roof of which supports an electric sign-DANCE- but the dancing has ceased for several years” that automatically tells the re