Atticus Finch Character Analysis

Miss Maudie is like an aunt to Scout and Jem. *insert quote here* She accepts Scout for who she is, with or without the overalls. She “babysits” them during the day. She also spoils them with cake. Maudie Atkinson has a sense of familiarity and home to her.

Page 43” this shows how even though Maudie spends her time outside, just as Scout had, she was just as beautiful and mature as the other ladies in Macomb. Scouts description of Maudie shows how both women share the same outdoorsman characters, yet Maudie still maintains a strong feminine presence.

Scout is worried about Miss Maudie but Miss Maudie tells Scout not to “ worry about [her] Jean Louise Finch. There are ways of doing things you don’t know about (Lee 97). Here we identify Miss Maudie’s selfless personality and that even at a time like this she is trying to stay positive and teach Scout that she isn't obliged to follow one way in life, there is always an alternative. It is important that Scout takes it in this way as it develops her character into a more caring and understanding person, this also helps her separate herself from the sheep in Maycomb conforming to the Maycomb disease. Earlier in the novel, Miss Maudie is telling the kids about Nathan Radley and that he is the “kind of [man] who [is] too busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one” (Lee 46).

Scout despises the fact that everyone wants her to be a girly girl, and it bothers her because she does not want to wear a dress, and she has fears of growing up as a female, she would rather wear overalls according to Shackelford (3).” She resents the influence of her genteel aunt Alexandra, who loathes dirt and wishes that her niece would play with stoves and tea sets; is disgusted by her hateful, elderly, and bedridden neighbor, Mrs. Henry Lafayette Dubose; and ridicules her first-grade teacher, Miss Caroline Fisher, a “peppermint drop” of a pretty, proper young woman” (Holmes). However, her morals and values really show because she has a devotion to her father’s opinion and what he does by taking a stand against the racial society, in the book “To Kill a Mockingbird” it states “.. I wondered at the world of women... There was no doubt about it, I must soon enter this world, where on its surface fragrant ladies rocked slowly, fanned gently, and drank cool water” (236).

Scout is surrounded by adults who want the best for her and encourage her to be who she wants to be, however, they cannot shield her from the societal pressures to conform to the set gender stereotypes in her community. Atticus and Miss Maudie both encourage Scout to grow up freely and to have fun, they do not hold specific gender biases and allow her to wear pants and to play with the boys. Through their actions, “Scout and her parental figures demonstrate this flexible view of gender. Scout is not born with an innate predisposition to be a tomboy; rather, her behaviors define her as a tomboy”(Earnest 10). While she grew up free, she has reached the age where she starts to get told that she should wear dresses and that she should become more ladylike.

Scout was particularly affected by gender discrimination as she was a girl. She was told she acted too much like a boy when she should be acting like a girl. Scout described Aunt Alexandra as “Fanatical on the subject of my attire. I could not possibly hope to be a lady if I wore breeches; when I said I could do nothing in a dress, she said I wasn’t supposed to be doing things that required pant” (108). Aunt Alexandra discriminated Scout for not wearing lady like attire and told her that if she continued to dress that way then she could not be a lady. Aunt Alexandra soon became determined to put an end to Scout’s non-feminine behavior. Atticus tried to explain to Scout that "She asked me to tell you must try to behave like the little lady and gentleman that you are. She wants to talk to you about the family and what it's meant to Maycomb County through the years, so you'll have some idea of who you are, so you might be moved to behave accordingly"(178). Atticus decided to take his sister’s word and told his children what they should act like despite him not approving of this. Scout’s behavior is what leads her Aunt Alexandra to discriminating her and telling her she will never be a lady if she continues to not dress

It had something to do with my going around in overalls” (108). Aunt Alexandra was always complaining how Scout doesn’t act like a girl and Atticus doesn’t do enough to teach her how to act right.

When asked a question about her attire and her future, Scout does not answer in the way anyone else would. The women think she is joking as a result they laugh which makes her uncomfortable but Miss Maudie never did. She has “never laughed unless [Scout] meant to be” (Lee 307). She understands how out of place Scout feels so in order to ease her tension she supports her. In the middle of a conversation between the women, Scout begins to feel out of place, Maudie sees this and in return she held Scout’s hand “its warmth was enough” (Lee 308).

In chapter 9, Scout is constantly criticised for not being more like the rest of the women in the town, and although she partially conforms in chapter 24, Scout still wears her overalls underneath her dress. Scout rethinks the comments made by the women in her Aunt’s circle, became increasingly wondered by the world of women and thought: “There was no doubt about it, I must soon enter this world, where on its surface fragrant ladies rocked slowly, fanned gently, and drank cool water. But I was more at home in my father’s world. People like Mr. Heck Tate did not trap you with innocent questions to make fun of you; even Jem was not highly critical unless you said something stupid. Ladies seemed to live in faint horror of men, seemed unwilling to approve wholeheartedly of them.

Aunt Alexandra comes to live in the Finch household when she thinks Atticus is not fit to raise the kids on his own. Part of the reason she moves in with them is because she thinks Scout needs a role model so Scout can learn how to act like a lady. In the 1930s, it was frowned upon if women wore pants, this was something Scout loved to do. Aunt Alexandra does not believe in the feminist movement that existed at the time. Which means she criticized Scout when she wore overalls or pants.

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