Sexism in 'To kill a Mocking Bird'

Scout
1. I was not so sure, but Jem told me I was being a girl, that girls always imagined things, that's why other people hated them so, and if I started behaving like one I could just go off and find some to play with.
2. Scout believes from an early age that girl things are bad (and probably have cooties) and boy things are good, and that she can avoid the badness of girls by not acting one. Being a girl for Scout is less a matter of what she's born with and more a matter of what she does.
3. [Calpurnia] seemed glad to see me when I appeared in the kitchen, and by watching her I began to think there was some skill involved in being a girl.
Aunt Alexandra
1. Aunt Alexandra expectations of Scout
  1. Jean Louise, stop scratching your head.
  2. we decided that it would be best for you to have some feminine influence.
  3. Aunt Alexandra believes that dressing well, using manners, and being social are necessary to be a proper lady. She insists that Scout should act more like a proper lady. She argues that Scout should wear dresses, attend tea parties, and speak only when spoken to.
Jem
1. "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!"
2. Jem in his "young years" (under age 13) , thinks that Scout should only be a boy, and act like one. But once a teen, ironically, he thinks that she should become a girl and act like one.

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	Created by maxime.janin about 11 years ago