He became preoccupied and smitten with he unfeeling and shallow female, even though she was disdainful of his club-foot (she sneered when he walked out of the tearoom) and his obvious all-encompassing interest in her, although they had nothing in common.Norman""s Acquaintance with Singer/Dancer Esther Blodgett:After the performance, Maine realizes the extraordinary gesture she has made and thanks her.The Kid offers to split the reward fifty-fifty:I""m heading up north in through Nobrera to Wyoming.I""m gonna kill a couple of no-good cowboys...for cuttin"" up a lady.They cut up her face, cut her eyes out, cut her ears off, hell, hey even cut herteats...A thousand dollars reward, Will.Five hundred apiece.Munny is unresponsive to the tempting offer.In his past, his whiskey drinking encouraged his gunplay, but through the guiding, controlling, taming influence of his late wife, who "passed on.The film inspired Robert Penn Warren""s novelization "The Cave" published in 1959, and set in fictional Johntown, Tennessee.