Your mother will make no decision without you, nor will she sign anything, not even common receipts hence, nothing can move forward until you are here. Just take a gander at this passage from Lawyer Daggett's letter to Mattie before she sets off into Indian Territory: The Anvil of Foreshadowingīut True Grit also has plenty of novelistic moments, when we can see that there's a skilled craftsman behind the story. These devices lend the book an almost journalistic air, like Mattie is going to a lot of trouble to make the book seem straightforward and accurate. Mattie uses a lot of devices to give her story credibility, like reproductions of court transcripts and letters. As for educational-well, check out our section on " Setting" for all the history that True Grit can teach us. Sounds a lot like True Grit to us: "true" (check), "interesting" (check), and "graphic" (imagery, description, sensory details-check). She's something of a writer, penning unpublished articles about history, and she even has a sense of her own style: "Nothing is too long or too short either if you have a true and interesting tale and what I call a 'graphic' writing style combined with educational aims." (3.93) Let's do a bit of both and see where it takes us.įirst, Mattie lets us know late in the novel that her story is a written account. Do we talk about author Charles Portis' writing style or about Mattie's own writing style? Don't they overlap? Analyzing writing style gets tricky in novel like True Grit, which is itself framed as a written story.
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