Scout Finch

Looking at Scout Finch through a feminist lens really isn't hard, if you look close enough, you can see many examples of feminism within events happening around Scout, not to mention Scout herself. Scout is a tomboy, and while most girls her age were playing with dolls,  wearing dresses, sewing, having tea and learning how to be 'ladies', Scout was playing outside in overalls with Jem and Dill.  This behavior was unheard of, and considered unacceptable by other women of the time, and when Scout's Aunt Alexandra comes to stay with the Finches, she hassles Scout and tries to teach her the ways of being a lady, though Scout wants no part in it. In the early parts of the book where Dill and Jem are playing, and Scout either wants to join or disagrees with them, Jem says to her: "Stop being such a girl."Scout doesn't want to be a girl or a lady, all she wants to be is herself. The taunts from her brother just make her even more determined not to be the stereotypical girl of that era. Scout is portrayed as the feminist in the novel.

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