Atticus A Bad Father Analysis

Atticus is a good father to both Jem and Scout. During the course of the book Atticus has been blamed to not have been a good father to his children when he allows them to do what most parents would not allow. Such as allowing Scout to wear breeches as it shows “[Scout] could not possibly hope to be a lady if I wore breeches; when I said I could do nothing in a dress…” (Lee 83). This shows that people inside the family and outside the family want Scout to act like a lady and do what lady are suppose to be doing, not running around in boy pants. As it said “[Scout] could not possibly hope to be a lady if I wore breeches…” (Lee 83), this shows that Atticus is very worry or care much of what she does. Though it may show that Atticus is a bad father
This part was showing that Atticus know so much more than most adults about the stages of what children go through in their life. Atticus shows that he knows children can tell when an adult is evading a question when he said “Children are children, but they can spot an evasion quicker than adults, and evasion simply muddles ‘em.” (Lee 90). Atticus shows that not all adults seem to know that children can see evasion better than adult. It is shown that when Atticus has to tell his brother that children can see evasion better than adult. With both these statement shown above it shows that Atticus really does know what he is doing, it is just that the in the town can not see what he is doing for his children is really letting Jem and Scout figure out the what they want to know on their own and he will only help if they ask. Atticus has been able to keep Jem and Scout out of many differnet di that he did not want them to get, one would be the Maycomb’s disease also known as racism. Atticus has been a good parent for both Jem and Scout taught them