How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #1
"The meanest one is Rooster Cogburn. He is a pitiless man, double-tough, and fear don't enter into his thinking. He loves to pull cork. Now L.T. Quinn, he brings his prisoners alive. […] He will not plant evidence or abuse a prisoner. He is straight as a string." (2.37)
Mattie doesn't even have to think about this; she chooses Rooster, because she wants justice—her kind of justice, which just might involve not bringing the prisoner in alive.
Quote #2
They had ridden the "hoot owl trail" and tasted the fruits of evil and now justice had caught up with them to demand payment. (3.86)
Mattie feels sorry for these chained up prisoners at first, but she gets judgmental pretty quickly. It doesn't seem to enter her mind that some of these men are innocent, or that some of the crimes that the punishments they are receiving might not fit the crimes.
Quote #3
MR. GOUDY: I felt sure it would come to you with a little effort. Now let us see. Twenty-three dead men in four years. That comes to about six men a year. (3.160)
This attorney sees Rooster as a hired killer and as a menace to society. Mattie sees him as a bringer of justice. How do you think he sees himself?