To Kill a Southern Lady: The Absence of Aunt Alexandra Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird, written in 1960, covers the controversial topic of race and equality at that time. In Lee’s Pulitzer Prize book, the story of the trail of a black man, the tale of the elusive Boo Radley, and the story of her brother Jem breaking his arm all in one interconnected plot. In the novel, Scout’s Aunt Alexandra plays a crucial role in raising Scout and giving her new guidelines to abide by that are incoherent with the teachings of Atticus Finch. However in the film adaptation, Aunt Alexandra is exempt from her major role as one of Scout’s few female guardians. Namely, the Missionary Circle Tea party was a crucial instance in which Aunt Alexandra is enforcing
