Finally, Ed Sansom embodies the literal and figurative symbol of confinement in Other Voices, Other Rooms. When things collapse between Pepe, Randolph, and Dolores, Randolph goes to Dolores’s room only to find it overturned. Randolph hears someone walking in the house, finds a gun, and, when the stranger comes close to the door, Randolph, unsure of who it is, fires the gun. “The door opened, I fired once, and again, and Jesus dissolved, become nothing but Ed… doubled over, he stumbled toward the stairs, and rolled down the steps loose like a ragdoll” (Capote 122). Ed is not helped for two days, until Amy comes, but by then it is too late. “And his father … was paralyzed, helpless; he could say a few words (boy, why, kind, bad, ball, ship),