The two Hutter sisters, in Cooper's The Deerslayer, are complements of each other. The two women differ in ideals and intellect. Judith, the more beautiful daughter, starts the novel with a promiscuous reputation, changes her immoral ways, and in the end returns to her life with men. Her motive to become a better Christian is her love for the Natty Bumppo. Judith is willing to change her ways in order to gain the love of Bumppo. He does not return her love, which sends her back to her unchristian way of life. Hetty, on the other hand, is a good Christian who preaches her values to everyone in the novel. Unlike Judith, she is not beautiful but plain. Her simple mindedness keeps her Christian values strong. Her plain features and simple mind keep her from wandering away from immoral actions. Her strong Christian faith in the end endangers Bumppo, because she is unable to lie and see the necessity of trickery during the time of war. Judith helps Bumppo by using her beauty and intellect.

Judith Hutter, as Hurry Harry describes, is the coquettish daughter of Tom Hutter. She is a woman who is materialistic, but has a strong intellect. When Natty Bumppo first sees her room he describe

The canoe ride back to the castle after Hetty speaks to the Mingos proves Judith's skill in the wild. She rows "with a skill little short of that of a man." When the Mingos chase Judith and Hetty in their canoe, the Mingos fear "the disgrace of being baffled by women." When the girls return to the castle, Judith "approached it with extreme caution." She then uses her wits and sends Hetty in first, "Do go into the house, Hetty...and see that the savages are gone. They will not harm you; and if any of them are still here, you can give me the alarm." She knows the Mingos see Hetty as gifted because of her simple mind; she knows the Mingos will not harm Hetty.

Hetty's simple and honest ways lead her to help the group in many ways. The Mingos will not harm Hetty because of her simple mindedness, so she often speaks to the Mingos whenever the groups need to communicate. During the event when the Mingos capture Bumppo, Hetty unintentionally puts Bumppo in more danger. When Judith comes to the Mingo site dressed in finery and tells the Mingos that she is a woman of power, Rivenoak is not swayed. He sees something odd about the performance of Judith and asks Hetty about her. Hetty, unable to lie, tells the Mingos, "That's my sister Judith, Thomas Hutter's daughter-Thomas Hutter, whom you call the Muskrat." During the same event, Hetty endangers Bumppo again because of her simple mindedness. Hetty is unable to pass the knife Hist gives her to Bumppo secretively. "The small keen-edged knife...was passed...into the hands of Hetty, as the safest and least suspected medium of transferring it to the Deerslayer. But the feeble intellect of the last defeated the well-grounded hopes of all three." Hetty unable to understand the plan with the knife did not do what the others wanted, which was to give the knife to the Deerslayer, but she tried to cut the ropes herself. While trying to cut the ropes, she did not

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