'You're not who you're supposed to be...'

"I don't know how [that woman] is raising you, but you're not who you're supposed to be."

"Neither are you!"

Perfect dialogue between distant parent and child. Happens all the time. Absent parent judging the other parent (in this case an aunt) raising the child and shaming them for not being who they think they're supposed to be when they've made no effort to be in their lives. Usually the child doesn't hear it said that explicitly. It's usually doled-out piecemeal in implicit ways over a lifetime. And even if said that explicitly they'd probably at so young an age just cry instead of grasping what Capote can put into the character's mouth now and reply what the adult eventually realizes his childhood self was feeling (not thinking) which is, "You're not who you're supposed to be either." We just don't understand that until we have the hindsight of age usually.

And after demanding he respect him that way he will never respect him a day again. He showed how profoundly disrespectful he is.

Please paint something cool today...Don't paint the sun anymore!