Mattie Rigsbee is the main character in Clyde Edgerton's southern style novel, Walking Across Egypt. Mattie is a seventy-eight year old widow with two middle-aged children. Living alone in a small house, she makes sure that everything is taken care of. Although begins to display some signs of aging, and her family is trying to convince her to slow down her lifestyle, Mattie's character and mind setting prohibits her from becoming the stereotypical elder. She …showed first 75 words of 649 total…

…showed last 75 words of 649 total…family tries desperately to have her slow her life down, Mattie Rigsbee has a strong character that is prohibiting her from becoming the stereotypical elder. She has made a decision in her life on which road that she will take to begin the rest of her life. She has not turned onto the dead-end road of reminiscence, disability and dependence, but rather onto the long, fulfilling road of life, happiness, and salvation. Life is good.