"I broke in to say, 'It is a personal matter.'
'Did you get your settlement?' said Mrs. Floyd, who could no more keep her mouth closed than a yellow catfish."
In Charles Portis's book, True Grit, a substantial amount of the scenes in which Mattie is staying at Mrs. Floyd's inn display how opposite Mattie is from the typical woman of the day. She chooses to not meddle in gossip, and avoids lace, frills and "shiny things," as Lucky Ned Pepper puts it. This is an extremely defining characteristic of Mattie, singling her out from the others of her sex, and helping her prove that she is capable of tagging along with Rooster and LaBouef.
can you be extremely defining?
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