"That was when I went out to the staked plains of Texas and shot buffalo with Vernon Shaftoe and a Flathead Indian called Olly." (144)
Rooster's origins are not the most honest things, and even what Rooster still does is not very moral. Portis chose to write Rooster as a rough, harsh man to make the emotional transformation that he makes throughout the book more prominent. The rougher Rooster was at the beginning, the more of an effect Maddie had on him. Thus representing the title of the book - True Grit, which is why Maddie chose Rooster to accompany her in the first place.
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