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What Did He Have To Do With Harper Lee?
- Capote and Lee became lifelong friends in Monroeville when they were neighbors
- Truman Capote served as the character Dill Harris in To Kill a Mockingbird
- Dill was portrayed as a lively imaginative character just as Capote
Quotes That Relate To Truman Capote in To Kill a Mockingbird
- "Dill was a curiosity. He wore blue linen shorts that buttoned to his shirt, his hair was snow white and stuck to his head like duckfluff; he was a year my senior but I towered over him. As he told us the old tale his blue eyes would lighten and darken; his laugh was sudden and happy; he habitually pulled at a cowlick in the center of his forehead " (Lee 9).
- Lee captures Capote's persona almost perfectly, and the reader can imagine him as a child. Capote kept his stylish and clean cut look throughout life and his personality as well.
- "In this matter we were lucky to have Dill. He played the character parts formerly thrust upon me — the ape in Tarzan, Mr. Crabtree in The Rover Boys, Mr. Damon in Tom Swift. Thus we came to know Dill as a pocket Merlin, whose head teemed with eccentric plans, strange longings, and quaint fancies " (Lee 9, 10).
- Capote had a big imagination when he was young and he brought it out into his stories and books.