All of Scout’s life, she has grown up being a tomboy. This may be because she was raised mostly by her father, Atticus, and was highly impacted by her brother, Jem. She’s always grown up with the idea that being a girl was a bad thing. This concept is mostly brought on by her brother when making comments to her such as “I swear, Scout, sometimes you act so much like a girl it’s mortifyin’” (Lee 42). When playing with the boys, Scout also tells the readers, “Jem told me I was being a girl, that girls always imagined things, that’s why other people hated them so, and if I started behaving like one I could just go off and find some to play with” (Lee 45). While she is encouraged to act this way by her brother, she is also exposed to the stereotype of women in the town. In the book, there is an underlying sense of how women are supposed to act and behave. They are to dress and act like a lady, and stay home taking care of the house. Women do not have jobs, or participate in politics. Women are considered more as property rather than
All of Scout’s life, she has grown up being a tomboy. This may be because she was raised mostly by her father, Atticus, and was highly impacted by her brother, Jem. She’s always grown up with the idea that being a girl was a bad thing. This concept is mostly brought on by her brother when making comments to her such as “I swear, Scout, sometimes you act so much like a girl it’s mortifyin’” (Lee 42). When playing with the boys, Scout also tells the readers, “Jem told me I was being a girl, that girls always imagined things, that’s why other people hated them so, and if I started behaving like one I could just go off and find some to play with” (Lee 45). While she is encouraged to act this way by her brother, she is also exposed to the stereotype of women in the town. In the book, there is an underlying sense of how women are supposed to act and behave. They are to dress and act like a lady, and stay home taking care of the house. Women do not have jobs, or participate in politics. Women are considered more as property rather than