Character Analysis Of Dill In To Kill A Mockingbird By Harper Lee

There are a variety of characters in all kinds of stories, including Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird. Out of all of the characters, some are more complex than others, running into multitudes of problems throughout the course of the story. Dill is no exception even though he is curious, imaginative, and somehow still sensible enough to know right from wrong. But what actually establishes Dill such a memorable character, some may ask, but don’t worry, those answers will be answered soon. Beginning while Dill is young, he cannot escape the curious nature of humans, but he shows an extreme amount of curiosity throughout the story. One day after Scout, Jem, and Dill were finally done repeating the same plays over and over again Dill came up with the idea of drawing Boo Radley out. This was since, as Scout put it, “The more we told Dill about the Radleys, the more he wanted to know.” HL 12. This shows that he has an interest in something everyone else at the time thought was impossible to achieve, and he always tries to find out as much as he can about the Radleys.
During the story, Dill had run away from his family to live with Scout, but she pointed out that his parents likely do care about him and were just being mean with everything going on in their lives. That is when Dill started dreaming about a different life, and Scout had observed that, “He could add and subtract faster than lightning, but he preferred his own twilight world.” HL 144. What this revealed about Dill is that he would rather create his own world than face the limits of reality in the world that exists already, which is what many would call an imaginative