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To Kill a Mockingbird Women and Femininity Quotes Page 1
Citations follow this format: (Chapter.Paragraph)
| Quote #1 I was not so sure, but 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. (4.119) |
Scout believes from an early age that girl things are bad and boy things are good, and that she can avoid the badness of girls by not acting one. Being a girl for Scout is thus less a matter of what she’s born with and more a matter of what she does.
| Quote #2 "Scout, I'm tellin' you for the last time, shut your trap or go home – I declare to the Lord you're gettin' more like a girl every day!" With that, I had no option but to join them. (6.24) |
Convinced of the unworthiness of girls, Scout will apparently do anything to avoid appearing like one.
| Quote #3 "Don’t pay any attention to her, just hold your head high and be a gentleman." (11.23) |
This is the flip side of Jem’s putting down of girls – being a gentleman seems to signify honor in a way being a lady doesn’t, at least for Jem.
