Scout Finch Feminism

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In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the obvious lack of the female gender is surely evident. The main character in this novel, Scout Finch becomes influenced in the wrong way as a result of the lack of female rolls in her life. Although she hangs out with males most of the time, the times she hangs out with mother-like figures opens up her eyes for only a short bit of time and makes her realize that being a girl isn’t half as bad as she has been influenced to think.by the men in her life. She is impacted by Atticus’s views on how women should be treated, Jem’s teasing towards Scout for being a girl, and she is influenced by certain women in her life when she accompanies them that being a lady isn’t all that bad. If Scout were to have more women figures around her, she would have known better during all the times she was being downgraded for being a girl. Firstly, Scout looks up to her father very much and believes every word he says because he is her father; whom she loves and respects very much. In other words, she becomes highly influenced by everything he tells her. When Jem and Scout become curious about if women can serve on a jury, Atticus tells them that the reasons are since ‘[women] cannot serve on a jury because [they are] women” (Lee, 221) and that “[it is] to protect […] frail …show more content…

For example: she “[begins] to think there [is] some skill involved in being a girl” (116) when she watches Calpurnia in the kitchen. This suggests that as she watches a woman, she realizes that there really isn’t even anything bad with it. Also, Aunty Alexandra is a role model to Scout as scout becomes influenced to act like a lady since “if Aunty [could] be a lady at a time like this, so could [she]” (257). To conclude, Scout is in need of more women figures in her life to influence her

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