Aunt Alexandra Flashcards
Edge
‘She hurt my feelings and set my teeth permanently on edge.’
Deportment
‘Aunt Alexandra’s vision of my deportment involved playing with small stoves, tea-sets’
Understand Girls
‘Aunt Alexandra didn’t understand girls much; she’d never had one.’
Welcomed
‘Maycomb welcomed her…. Aunt Alexandra seemed as if she had always lived with us.’
Moral
‘boarding school manners; let any moral come along and she would uphold it; she was born in the objective case; she was an incurable gossip.’
Shortcomings
‘She never let a chance escape her to point out the shortcomings of other tribal groups to the greatest glory of our own.’
Finer Family
‘Aunt Alexandra was of the opinion, obliquely expressed, that the longer a family had been squatting on one patch of land the finer it was.’
Breeding
‘Your aunt has asked me to try and impress upon you and Jean Louise that you are not from run-of-the-mill people, that you are the product of several generations’ gentle breeding’
Gracious
‘You should be friendly and polite to him, you should be gracious to everybody, dear. But you don’t have to invite him home.’
Perfectly Willing
‘I mean this town. They’re perfectly willing to let him do what they’re too afraid to themselves - it might lose ‘em a nickel. They’re perfectly willing to let him wreck his health doing what they’re’ afraid to do’
Lady
‘After all, if Aunty could be a lady at a time like this, so could I.’
Darling
‘Are you alright, darling?’ She asked over and over again’
Fault
‘Atticus, I had a feeling about this tonight - I - this is my fault’
