Nance indicates that “In Cold Blood” was written as a “true expansion of Truman's artistic scope; a vindication of his imagination” in an article titled “Theof Truman Capote.” Nance also criticizes the fact that Perry Smith resembles the protagonists of alternative histories and that in “In Cold Blood” there are also sufferers and dreamers. Nance explains that Truman's most influential deviation is the "brain explosion" in which he turns to his father figure. He increases his criticism by adding that “In Cold Blood” is to some extent a “return to Capote's childhood and a real-life confirmation of his first imaginative creations, his technique, artistic and ideological assumptions are the most predictable consequences which he started capturing in the second phase of his career." William says “In Cold Blood” was not a tragic drama but rather a meditation on reality. The dramatic interests lay primarily in the sensational quality of the murders and the prosecution of the criminals. But Capote's approach to some events has been called "voyeuristic." Nance adds that Dwight Macdonald attacked Truman's composition as untragic and dramatic