![]() ![]() ![]() She wants badly to bring him to justice, and her consistent drive for revenge defines her character for much of the book. ![]() Mattie also hires Rooster Cogburn to hunt down Tom Chaney, her father’s murderer. Mattie takes her father’s affairs into her own hands, convincing Stonehill to buy back the ponies he sold to Frank right before his death. She comes to Fort Smith in the aftermath of her father Frank Ross’s murder. Mattie is a strong-willed young woman who uses her intelligence and determination to succeed in a world where she is consistently undervalued. A fourteen-year-old girl from Dardanelle, Arkansas and the narrator of True Grit. ![]()
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