Why Is Miss Maudie Important In To Kill A Mockingbird

Harper Lee accurately outlined a not so desirable trait that all humans have in her timeless classic book To Kill a Mockingbird. She brilliantly brings it to people’s attention how desperately humans are to be noticed by others. Regardless of how much we deny our dependency on getting attention, our disgusting addiction for it will not go away. We long for the satisfaction of knowing something that others do not, so we assume we have all the answers and tell people things that we infer about someone just from the observations we make. We think we know the person’s whole life storyfrom the brief interaction we had with them and we spread rumors. Let us be honest, it feels good to have people swarm you begging for you to tell them what you know about someone or something. Nobody wants to be the guy who gets

She gets that feeling through gossip and spreading rumors. Stephanie is a symbol of our greed for knowledge as people. She only looks to get attention; she doesn’t care about other people’s opinions or feelings. She thinks that she is entitled to make sure everyone knows about everything that she wants them to. When Scout, Jem, and Dill were sitting on the front porch after the trial, Scout observed that Miss Stephanie Crawford was “busy telling [the news about the trial] to Miss Maudie Atkinson and Mr. Avery” (244-245). One might ask why she feels the need to be the one to tell everyone about Atticus’ loss because of how annoying that must’ve been. Not only did Scout’s single parent lose an important case, and a man and his family’s lives were just torn apart, but now the whole county knows about how Atticus lost the biggest trial of his life while trying to defend a black man. It must’ve been hard for the kids to recover from, especially for Jem because he was old enough to understand that Tom was innocent and his dad was