Rooster Cogburn

Rooster Cogburn is the hero that we admire. He's the guy we want to be, but are afraid to become. We like his ruthlessness and his basic B.A. factor, but we also secretly admire the fact that he's a hero. Because he aids the good guys in the film we love him, but had he been the antagonist we would deplore the very same characteristics of Cogburn that we love in him now. After our initial meetings with Rooster, we see that he is most certainly not afraid to inflict a little kick ass on a convict or two, but we also get a glimpse into a softer side of Rooster. When Cogburn states that he killed all of those men because he had to, we believe him. And because he was forced to kill, we are admire and praise him all the more. I know that he'll come off as a villain at times, and will most likely have conflicting views with Mattie, but ultimately the good guys will win, Rooster and Mattie both will have transformed or evolved some how, and Rooster will go off and do something that might seem bad at the moment, but will ultimately end up being a great deed later on after it's initially completed.