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I think that Morrison was much more intimate with her characters, just as Capote was, and much more so than Updike. I didn't feel like she related to an individual person in the book like Capote did with Perry, but that she seemed to know them all very well as if she could relate to similar events or feelings in her life.
Even though I felt that Updike may have written from some personal knowledge, he didn't allow the intimacy of his knowledge to become evident in his writing. Capote was very evident that he had become personally involved.