Dolphus Raymond Character Analysis

Appearances are only skin deep as it is what is on the inside that counts. Harpers Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird is about a town in Southern Alabama. Atticus Finch, a lawyer, and father of Jem and Scout lives in a racist society but has a non-racist mind. Fellow neighbors of the Finches: Mrs. Dubose, Arthur (Boo) Radley, and Dolphus Raymond are judged by the people of this small town. In judging others, one might not see their true self.

Mrs. Dubose is perceived as a nasty old lady by Jem and Scout. On their way to school, Jem and Scout would pass by Mrs. Dubose’s Home. One day, Mrs. Dubose yelled from her front porch, “Don't you say hey to me, you ugly girl”(Lee 133). These remarks are not that she is nasty lady, but the fact that she is trying

Dolphus Raymond is the Town drunk, he does not go into town often but when he does he stumbles in; and the town use that as his excuse saying “Dolphus Raymond’s in the clutches of whiskey that’s why he won’t change his ways. He can't help himself, that’s why he lives the way he does”(Lee 200). As a matter a fact, he is not a drunk but the town of Maycomb uses that to explain why he has biracial children, and why he sits with the African Americans. It is not because of whiskey, but because he likes to but at that time no one understood that they needed an excuse. Harper Lee depicted Dolphus Raymond as a no good drunk but Jem and Scout were able to see that he is ahead of the town of

The towns rumors have even invaded the younger generation’s minds with Jem telling Scout “ Boo drove the scissors into his parent’s leg, pulled them out, wiped them on his pants, and resumed his activities”(Lee 11.) That is quite the contrary, Boo was the opposite he cared for them. He would watch them from his window and see their entire lives play out. He was their second father and no one knew that. Jem and Scout at the beginning of the novel saw Boo as a man to be afraid of that by the end they realized he was a loving and caring individual afraid to face the