Paris Trout and The Fixer

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Although both authors illustrates the importance of the community pressure on the trials, Dexter gives the reader more in depth view of the people’s attitudes towards the accused by including a detail description of the people around Paris Trout. Everyone in the small town turns back to Trout. After constant abuse by Paris, Hanna Trout threatens him that she is poisoning him so he will move out of the house and leave her alone. Harry Seagraves also does not know how to handle Trout and he drops the case just before the appeal in front of the Supreme Court. Trout scares everyone around him with his bizarre attitude. This influences the life of the small town because people are always looking whether Paris Trout is going to show up with a gun. On the other hand, Malamud provides the reader with a historical background, which implies the effect that the trial has on the community. The vagueness about people’s believes about Yakov’s guilt, however, gives the reader hope.
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