Femininity In To Kill A Mockingbird

Typically, a woman’s job is to nurture, teach, and take care of domestic chores. During the 1930s and in modern times, there is a softness associated with femininity (Armengol 62). Such activities women would be expected to be involved in at the time would be tending to gardens, hosting parties, and cooking. All of these are done by the female characters in Lee’s novel. Jem even tells Scout, “ You know she’s [Aunt Alexandra] not used to girls’...’leastways, not girls like you. She’s trying to make you a lady. Can’t you take up sewin’ or something? (Lee 302) Scout also notes that in the 1930s “Ladies seemed to live in faint horror of men, seemed unwilling to approve wholeheartedly of them” (Lee 313). There are examples of characters that follow