How Does Harper Lee Use Indirect Characterization In To Kill A Mockingbird

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In To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the author shows that Scout is self-centered through the use of indirect characterization. When Scout brings a tire for Dill, Jem, and her to play with, they start arguing about who will go first and Scout comes out and says “I’m first” (Lee 49). She doesn’t even take what the other two want into consideration. All she cares about is her going first in the tire. While Scout is leaving her classroom at the end of the day, her teacher is crying and she says that “Had her conduct been friendly toward me, I would have felt sorry for her” (Lee 29). She doesn’t try to comfort her teacher or feel at all bad for her. Just because her teacher her teacher reprimanded her, Scout gives her teacher no consideration