What Is Aunt Alexandra's Transformation In To Kill A Mockingbird

In the book To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, you can see the character of Aunt Alexandra developing throughout the whole of the book from being presented as cold and harsh to more caring and showing how she has a softer feel. It may not be evident at first, but as you read and look closely at her character's actions you may just understand how evident these changes may be. In this essay, we will discuss this along with how her character compares and interacts with Scout and Jem along with how they react to her doing these things and how it affects them, from when she's first introduced to the end of the story when she's last mentioned. When you first meet her character, it’s at Finch’s Landing for Christmas (which takes place in chapter

A little later Aunt Alexandra comes out and asks Scout where Francis is. Scout says he's in the kitchen and Aunt Alexandra says how he's not supposed to be in there, but Francis says “Grandma she’s got me in here and won't let me out!”(Lee 83) to which Scout says she doesn't have him trapped in there. And although technically she doesn't have him trapped in there Aunt Alexandra sides with Francis “Jean Louis if I hear another word out of you I’ll tell your father.”(Lee 83) This once again shows how Aunt Alexandra is harsher on Scout than she is on the other children, and how she doesn't really believe her even if it’s the

One such instance when this came to light was when Aunt Alexandra talked to Atticus about teaching the kids what it means to be a finch, “No, I just want to explain to you-your aunt Alexandra asked me…son, you know you're a Finch, don't you?” (Lee 133) This leads to a conversation about how their Aunt wants to impress onto Jem and Scout about how they’re Finch’s and how it is important that they must hold themselves to that standard. Aunt Alexandra wanted them to live like the young lady and gentleman they were becoming. Atticus soon went on about how gentle breeding led to their family lineage being so important. Jem and Scout were both disgusted and with that Scout got up and started playing with a comb on Jem’s dresser, she made noise and with it by dragging the edge on the side of the dresser. Atticus yelled at her to stop the noise. Compared to normally he was oddly harsh and unusual to the children. Scout knew it was her aunt that put him up to this, She said “My father never thought these thoughts. My father never spoke so. Aunt Alexandra had put him up to this, somehow.” (Lee 134) Scout was terrified that things would change, and she even asked him if they would, but he promised that they wouldn't. But this exact instance shows how Scout thought of her aunt and how she blamed her. It also shows how Aunt Alexandra