All of the quotations prove that Darby Shaw is very brave. She puts her life at
stake just to meet Gavin, someone that she never meets before. Therefore, I can conclude that she is a brave woman.
4.1.4 Diligent
Darby Shaw is also a diligent woman. She often goes to the library and study there. In the library, she reads many cases from every state and compares to
each other. She can stay in the library for hours, especially if she has works to do. This time, she wants to know the relationship of the murder of two Supreme
Court justices. She checks all cases from those two Justices in the library. In cluttered study carrel on thee fifth level of the law library, between the
racks of thick, seldom-used law books, Darby Shaw scanned a printout of the Supreme Court’s docket. She had been through it twice, and though it
was loaded with controversy, she found nothing that interested her.
She compiled a neat list of possible suspects, but they would be obvious to everyone. The list was now in the garbage p. 62.
The way Darby Shaw was looking for information about the murder of two
Supreme Court justices shows us that she is very diligent. She is able to read many thick cases and make a list of the suspects of the murder.
Unable to find out what she needs, Darby Shaw goes back again to the library on the same day. Now she is reviewing the cases through computer
monitor and prints it. She carefully chooses the file she wants to print and then prints it. After printing the cases, Darby Shaw brings home a six-inch-thick
summary of the docket. She is very diligent in reviewing the summary file. A few minutes after ten, she walked to the computer room on the fourth
level of the library and sat before a monitor. The room was empty. She
pecked away at the keyboard, found what she wanted, and soon the printer was spewing forth page after page of appeals pending in the
eleven federal appellate courts around the country. And hour later, the printer stopped, and she now possessed a six-inch-thick summary of the
eleven dockets. She hauled it back to her study carrel and placed it in the center of the cluttered desk p. 63
Not finding what she wants in the library, with her diligence, she goes to the federal building that keeps many kinds of public records, including all trial
cases. She finds all cases that involve those two Supreme Justices. In the clerk office, she asks the permission to see the records of the cases by the Supreme
Justices. Having the permission to access the file, diligently, she examines the file of the cases for four hours. The way Darby gets the information can be seen
from the following quotations. Darby parked in the near-empty lot of the federal building in Lafayette,
and entered the clerk’s office on the first floor. The clerk scribed the information on a clipboard hanging near the door.
‘How long will you be?’ ‘I don’t know. Three or four hours.’
‘We close at five. Find me at the office when you leave.’ She closed the door with a smirk. Darby opened a drawer full of pleading, and began
flipping through files and taking notes. The lawsuit was seven years old, with one plaintiff and thirty-eight wealthy corporate defendant who had
collectively hired and fired no less than fifteen law firm from all over the country. Big firm, many with hundreds of lawyers in dozens of offices p.
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All of quotations above shows that Darby Shaw is very diligent. She is able to print and read such a thick documents, just to find out any information on her
lover’s death. With her diligence, she is also able to find another way to find the connection between the cases. Her diligence in comparing and analyzing the
cases brings her a great result. Darby with her diligence in reading many documents is able to find the thin red line between the cases by reading the case
record in the federal building. Therefore, I can conclude that she is a very diligent woman.
4.1.5 Caring
Darby Shaw is a caring woman. She really cares to Callahan. At first, she is his student at the school of law and then she becomes his lover. She loves
Callahan very much. She shows her attention and care in any situation, including when they have an argument over a dinner. At that time, they have the dinner at a
restaurant. The argument starts whenever Darby Shaw forbids Callahan from drinking too much alcohol. Callahan gets drunk and is not able to walk and drive.
Darby Shaw, who cares Callahan, asks him not to drive. She says that she will drive the car. Darby Shaw asks the key from Callahan. Darby Shaw is afraid that
Callahan will have an accident if he drives the car with high alcohol level on his blood.
The argument started with dessert, a portion of the meal Callahan preferred to drink. He was drinking too fast and getting sloppy, and by
the time she finished rattling off this accounting he was angry. He gulped it and ordered another, and she was furious p.123
Darby Shaw forces Callahan to hand the key by stopping on the other side of the road and refuses to go home by car. She insists that she will walk
home if Callahan does not hand the key. The argument turned nasty on the sidewalk as they walked away
from the restaurant. He pulled the keys to the Porsche from his pocket, and she said he was too drunk to drive. She said she would walk. Have a
nice one, he said. His blood level was at least point-two-zero. He was a law professor, dammit. He would kill someone p. 123
