Much is learned about the characters of In Cold Blood from the setting of the non-fiction novel. What is learned?

The opening of this
novel sets the scene by giving a thorough introduction to Holcomb and the attitudes of the
people who live there. Capote explores how this village is isolated and set apart, being on the
high wheat plains in Kansas, that even other people in the state of Kansas regard as the back of
beyond. There is, however, a curious dignity to life here, conveyed in theof the cluster of
grain...