To Kill a Mockingbird Mrs Dubose
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD 1. Who is Mrs Dubose?
Mrs Dubose was an old, bad-tempered, wheel-chair bound woman who lives with her maid, Jessie, two doors down from the Finches, sits on her porch and shouts out rude comments to the children whenever they pass her house. She was a morphine addict and as the novel progresses she attempts to break off her compulsion.
2. How does she fit into Maycomb society?
Nobody in Maycomb really liked Mrs Dubose. Just like the Mockingbird, she was not what people thought she was supposed to be, but actually had another side of her which nobody knew. Nobody had actually seen for themselves the real conditions of Mrs Dubose, therefore assuming that she is a cantankerous person from when they meet her when walking pass her house. The main role of the character Mrs Dubose in the novel is to represent moral courage.
3. What does Atticus think of her? What do the children think of her?
For Scout and Jem, Mrs. Dubose is a distressing, barely human force that takes over their afternoons after Jem goes crazy on her camellias. Scout introduces her as “plain hell” mainly due to the fact that she was always bad-mouthing them and even called Atticus a “nigger-lover”. It is not until after she dies that Scout and Jem get a sense of what Atticus sees in her. Although the children believe that Mrs. Dubose is a thoroughly bad woman, Atticus admires her for the courage with which she battles her morphine addiction and hopes that Scout and Jem see that in her as well.
4. Briefly summarise Mrs Dubose incident from the novel.
Mrs. Dubose died of suffering many years of cancer. Before her doctor told her she only had a few months to live she decided she wanted to die free of her addiction to morphine. For this to work, every day when Jem and Scout came to read to her she had an alarm set that when it went off her caretaker would give her a small dose of morphine, and as each day passed the clock gradually went off later and
Mrs Dubose was an old, bad-tempered, wheel-chair bound woman who lives with her maid, Jessie, two doors down from the Finches, sits on her porch and shouts out rude comments to the children whenever they pass her house. She was a morphine addict and as the novel progresses she attempts to break off her compulsion.
2. How does she fit into Maycomb society?
Nobody in Maycomb really liked Mrs Dubose. Just like the Mockingbird, she was not what people thought she was supposed to be, but actually had another side of her which nobody knew. Nobody had actually seen for themselves the real conditions of Mrs Dubose, therefore assuming that she is a cantankerous person from when they meet her when walking pass her house. The main role of the character Mrs Dubose in the novel is to represent moral courage.
3. What does Atticus think of her? What do the children think of her?
For Scout and Jem, Mrs. Dubose is a distressing, barely human force that takes over their afternoons after Jem goes crazy on her camellias. Scout introduces her as “plain hell” mainly due to the fact that she was always bad-mouthing them and even called Atticus a “nigger-lover”. It is not until after she dies that Scout and Jem get a sense of what Atticus sees in her. Although the children believe that Mrs. Dubose is a thoroughly bad woman, Atticus admires her for the courage with which she battles her morphine addiction and hopes that Scout and Jem see that in her as well.
4. Briefly summarise Mrs Dubose incident from the novel.
Mrs. Dubose died of suffering many years of cancer. Before her doctor told her she only had a few months to live she decided she wanted to die free of her addiction to morphine. For this to work, every day when Jem and Scout came to read to her she had an alarm set that when it went off her caretaker would give her a small dose of morphine, and as each day passed the clock gradually went off later and