In Another Man’s Moccasins (2008), by Craig Johnson, the character Walt Longmire has three moral attributes and those are being compassionate, being responsible, and being respectful. Walt’s appearance in the beginning of the book makes him seem like he is not compassionate to anyone and comes off as being hard. Walt’s character starts to evolve as the book goes on and opens who he is truly as a person. But, throughout the entire book, Craig gives many examples of how Walt is compassionate for his daughter’s mental health and his co-workers, responsible when it comes to his job, and how he tries to remain respectful through his investigations. First moral attribute Walt has is being compassionate, and this is mainly for his daughter’s mental health and wellbeing. Within the first few pages we can see that Walt has compassion for working with his daughter Cady, who was in physical therapy and pushed her to finish her exercises. When Walt is in the field with the HPs, he asks Cox’s “to have Rosey radio into our dispatch and ask them to tell Cady I won’t be coming home …show more content…
Even though there are characters that were also compassionate, responsible and respectful, Walt makes use of all his moral attributes to make him grow as a person and relate to everyone. Walt doesn’t just stop at being compassionate for one person or one thing he uses compassion with everything he does as sheriff of Absaroka County. Along with having compassion for everything Walt did, he was responsible when it came to his work and made sure that everything was done the right way. Being respectful kind of just tags along with being responsible because he wanted to make sure that he was respectful to everyone he encountered. Walt’s overall moral attributes makes him a very strong and bright man that knew what needed to be done and when it needed to be