The author goes into great detail in the first paragraphs of the story to convey a very special setting, a memory from childhood that he has embellished.
Capote describes the kitchen in a comfortable country house. You can almost feel the roaring fire in the fireplace, as the boy tells the story. The setting has a rural charm to it, the black stove, the fireplace, the rocking chairs, they all suggest a country lifestyle.
In the first few paragraphs, he identifies the setting, the characters and the time period.
"Imagine a morning in late November. A coming of winter morning more than twenty years ago. Consider the kitchen of a spreading old house in a country town." (Capote)
"A great black stove is its main feature; but there is also a big round table and a fireplace with two rocking chairs placed in front of it. Just today the fireplace commenced its seasonal roar." (Capote)
"The person to whom she is speaking is myself. I am seven; she is sixty-something, We are cousins, very distant ones, and we have lived together—well, as long as I can remember." (Capote)
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