Mild spoiler warning for episodes 1-6 of Feud: Capote vs.
The Swans
That said,Feudhas finally started treating Capote with sympathy.
It took long enough to get here.
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The caricature was even vicious enough to inspire aSlatepiecetitled, Why doesFeudhate Truman Capote so much?
However, one of Capotes contemporaries atEsquireindicated that Capote didnt exactly commit the craven act of betrayalFeuddescribed.
By publishing the tell-all about his Swans, the man was just doing his job.
Truman was a writer and he was also a journalist, said Capotes colleague Dotson Rader in aninterview withEsquire.
But thats your job.
But why would a man with no attachment to the Swans feel so wounded by their snubbing of him?
So, didFeudthink that Truman Capote only cared about getting invited to dinner parties?
Had the show thus forgotten that he was, above all, a writer?
The reassurance serves as a call-to-arms for Capote, inspiring him to write an entire novel about the Swans.
Ever the social outcast, even at his height, Capote has spent his life observing from the sidelines.
Ultimately, he has done what any good writer would do: He reflected their world back at them.
Then, in Episode 6,Feudidentifies Capotes greatestflawas an artist.
Its tragic; its sincere; its indulgent.
Moreover, its an admission that underlinesFeuds portrayal of Capote as a whole.
Throughout the show thus far, weve seen Capote engage in surface-level buffoonery during his feud with the Swans.
(Do the creators ofFeudthink that alcoholics can quit drinking at the drop of a fedora?)
Still, the show has at least acknowledged this incongruity in Capotes life.
Plus, there are two episodes remaining.
IfFeuddoesnt do these things, then it will only have contributed to the central tragedy of Capotes life.
