When grandfather dies Mattie shows how much she loves him. She shows it by how she felt about putting grandfather out on the road for the death cart. She was sad that grandfathers was gone, mad because she thought she could’ve done more to save him, but she missed him so much. She also showed how much she loved him because she demanded the men at the cemetery to have a proper burial at the graveyard. In the book Mattie said, “This was a great man, Captain William Farnsworth Cook, of the Pennsylvania Fifth Regiment. He was my grandfather. You will not bury him without a prayer.” After she said this the men running the cemetery got out their bibles and recited a prayer for grandfather. This shows that Mattie loves her grandfather. …show more content…
Mattie was worried about mother and wanted to stay and take care of her and the coffeehouse. Mattie can’t stop thinking about if she lived or not. More evidence is that when Mattie saw her mother come home and she stepped out of the carriage Mattie ran to her mother and gave her the longest, biggest hug. “I gathered her in my arms. She felt like a frail bird. We stood there in silence, rocking and holding onto each other as if the rest of the world didn’t matter. Which was true.” This quote and evidence shows that Mattie has a big heart for her