You know the type. Okay, anyway. Scout compares her to Mount Everest: "throughout my early life, she was cold and there" 9. And whenever Scout expresses a desire to do something Aunty believes is Not Done By Finches, she's down on her niece like an avalanche. She took off her glasses and stared at me. I'll not have you around him, picking up his habits and learning Lord-knows-what.
Aunty sees the Finch name like an exclusive brand: it's valuable when you can only find it at Bloomingdale's, but make it available at Wal-Mart and it'll seem cheap. Aunt Alexandra, in underlining the moral of young Sam Merriweather's suicide, said it was caused by a morbid streak in the family. Let a sixteen-year-old girl giggle in the choir and Aunty would say, "It just goes to show you, all the Penfield women are flighty.
But she uses that Destiny as a metaphorical club to beat Scout into line with. Click the character infographic to download.
Besides instilling the Finch kids with a sense of their own importance, Aunt Alexandra's other mission is to make sure Scout grows up into a nice young lady. She sets to work trying to quash Scout's tomboyish tendencies and to prepare her for a life of docile domesticity:. Aunt Alexandra was 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 pants. Atticus spends as much time with his children as he can and tries to teach them racial tolerance through his treatment of Calpurnia, who is seen as very much one of the family. It is almost as if Aunt Alexandra believes Sam Merriweather was bound to kill himself simply because the rest of his family had always been gloomy and depressed.
It is also believed by some people that members of the Ewell family will always be untrustworthy. This makes it very difficult for individuals to break free from their family connections and be seen as individuals in their own right. It has also resulted in many residents of Maycomb becoming narrow minded and prejudiced and unable to see the world from a wider perspective. They have become inward looking and see Maycomb with its racist tendencies as the centre of their universe.
People tend not to move away from Maycomb and so the same ideas and prejudices are passed from generation to generation. This is why Scout tells the reader at the start of the novel that Maycomb County had recently been told it had nothing to fear but fear itself. Families like the Finch family and their neighbours such as Miss Maudie and Aunt Rachel are seen as middle class but the Ewell family are regarded as white trash.
The term white trash refers to white people, particularly those living in the southern states of America, who are poor and who have a poor standard of living. The term was first heard in and was initially used by black enslaved people to describe poor white people. Rich white people then began to use the term to describe those white people who they felt were socially inferior to them.
The Ewells live near the town dump and Bob Ewell, who is the head of the household, cannot keep a job for very long. Instead he lives on handouts from the state, money which he selfishly spends on alcohol.
This leaves his children starving and it takes Mayella Ewell a whole year to save enough money to afford to buy each of her brothers and sisters an ice cream cone. The children are dirty, illiterate and covered with lice. She is happy to see Scout, who has succeeded in not spilling the coffee pot. While Alexandra seemed to be extremely bigoted, going by her comments about Atticus, she appears to have changed when the conversation at the missionary circle gets heated.
She is also portrayed as a no-nonsense woman, who seems to lack compassion and warmth. Aunt Alexandra, as Scout notes, fits perfectly into Maycomb society. Her prim and proper notions about how ladies ought to behave makes for much comedy between her and the rebellious, overall-wearing, tomboyish Scout. She is an imposing figure, and Scout describes her as being like Mt. What does Aunt Alexandra believe about social class? Anybody can be a good person.
Nobody is truly good. When she moves in with Atticus and the children, she tries to get them to acknowledge their family history, particularly with respect to their social position. Atticus is very liberal and honest with Jem and Scout.
Some of the qualities Scout learns from Aunt Alexandria are arguably good and represent the more positive aspects of these social norms. For example, she is a skilled and gracious host. In seeking to impart this condition to Jem and Scout, Aunt Alexandra can be seen as a conformist force in the family. At first, Scout dislikes her Aunt Alexandra.
Aunt Alexandra is a cold woman who does not seem to understand how to deal with children. Worst of all for Scout, Aunt Alexandra wants to make her into a lady. Begin typing your search term above and press enter to search. Press ESC to cancel.
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