As Jem grows older and Scout begins school, their relationship undergoes a change. Scout still views her brother as a companion, but Jem views himself as older, superior–he wants greater distance from his baby sister. He instructs Scout to interact with him as little as possible at school, and during the summer, he and Dill begin to push her away and ridicule her when she has a different view. Jem’s most popular insult is to scathingly say, “…you act so much like a girl it’s mortifyin’” (50). While Scout is a girl, this statement carries a negative connotation due to the extreme gender roles at the time. Calling Scout a girl was equivalent to calling her weak, frivolous, whiny, and, most of all, inferior. In short, Jem’s treatment of Scout