Although likely meant as a charitable gesture, it was neither necessary nor desired for Aunt Alexandria to come and care for Jem and Scout while Atticus was away at court for the summer. She had told them that it was because Atticus would be often absent, and because the two children were in need of a sort of “feminine influence” in their lives. But, Scout is under the impression that she came to stay because she did not approve of the way Atticus was raising his children, meaning that in reality she would be staying there because it happened to be–in her opinion–the solution to the problems within her family, which Atticus and his children did not believe to be true. The author shows how, although it was a compassionate gesture, no one wanted
