Plot overview
Scout takes umbrage at being called a girl, and loves to play with Jem and Dill. She refuses to be considered a girl. When Jem and Dill were going somewhere, and Scout didn’t want to because she was scared, Jem called her a girl and Scout felt she had to join them to prove her braveness.
“‘Jem please-’
‘Scout, I’m tellin’ you for the last time, shut your trap or go home-I declare to the Lord you’re gettin’ more like a girl every day!’ With that, I had no option but to join them’” (Lee 52).
Scout wears overalls and plays in dirt, unlike the rest of the young girls in Maycomb.
This quote represents the feminism theory because it is referring that girls are scared of being adventurous and courageous. Also, in the book, being girly means that you are a coward and that’s why Scout couldn’t take it and had to defend her self.
Another character that plays role in feminism is Scout’s Aunt Alexandra. She is considered a perfect Southern lady. She stands for everything a traditional Southern woman is supposed to, She wears dresses, and she host’s tea parties, and gossips. She stands by the thought that only old, white families are of value, and that every family had a “streak”. Whether it is a drinking “streak” or an incest “streak”, Aunt Alexandra has something against everybody. She gossips and tries to make believe she is perfect. She despises Scout’s overalls and she tries so hard to force Scout to be the perfect Southern lady that Scout has no desire to become. “Aunt Alexandra’s vision of my deportment involved playing with small stoves, tea sets, and wearing the Add-A-Pearl necklace she gave me when I was born; furthermore, I should be a ray of sunshine in my fathers lonely life. I suggested that one could be a ray of sunshine in pants just as well’” (Lee 81). This quote represents the meaning of feminism because Aunt Alexandra wants Scout to be like the other woman. Especially like her self.
Scout takes umbrage at being called a girl, and loves to play with Jem and Dill. She refuses to be considered a girl. When Jem and Dill were going somewhere, and Scout didn’t want to because she was scared, Jem called her a girl and Scout felt she had to join them to prove her braveness.
“‘Jem please-’
‘Scout, I’m tellin’ you for the last time, shut your trap or go home-I declare to the Lord you’re gettin’ more like a girl every day!’ With that, I had no option but to join them’” (Lee 52).
Scout wears overalls and plays in dirt, unlike the rest of the young girls in Maycomb.
This quote represents the feminism theory because it is referring that girls are scared of being adventurous and courageous. Also, in the book, being girly means that you are a coward and that’s why Scout couldn’t take it and had to defend her self.
Another character that plays role in feminism is Scout’s Aunt Alexandra. She is considered a perfect Southern lady. She stands for everything a traditional Southern woman is supposed to, She wears dresses, and she host’s tea parties, and gossips. She stands by the thought that only old, white families are of value, and that every family had a “streak”. Whether it is a drinking “streak” or an incest “streak”, Aunt Alexandra has something against everybody. She gossips and tries to make believe she is perfect. She despises Scout’s overalls and she tries so hard to force Scout to be the perfect Southern lady that Scout has no desire to become. “Aunt Alexandra’s vision of my deportment involved playing with small stoves, tea sets, and wearing the Add-A-Pearl necklace she gave me when I was born; furthermore, I should be a ray of sunshine in my fathers lonely life. I suggested that one could be a ray of sunshine in pants just as well’” (Lee 81). This quote represents the meaning of feminism because Aunt Alexandra wants Scout to be like the other woman. Especially like her self.