Aunt Alexandra Flashcards
Aunt Alexandra and gender roles- ‘She said I wasn’t…’
‘supposed to be doing things that required pants’
Aunt Alexandra and gender roles- ‘Grandma says all men…’
‘should learn to cook… and wait on [their wives] when they don’t feel good’
Aunt Alexandra and racial equality- ‘Grandma says… now he’s turned out a…’
‘nigger-lover, we’ll never be able to walk the streets of Maycomb again’
Aunt Alexandra and prejudice- ‘Aunt Alexandra was of the opinion… that…’
‘the longer a family had been squatting on one patch of land, the finer it was’
Aunt Alexandra and Atticus- ‘I’m…’
‘sorry, Brother’
Aunt Alexandra and social equality- ‘The thing is, you can…’
‘scrub Walter Cunningham until he shines… but he’ll never be like Jem’
Aunt Alexandra and Scout- ‘Are you…’
‘alright darling?… Aunty brought me my overalls’