In the novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee showcases a protagonist that is not of a proper young lady in the state of Alabama. Jean Louise Finch, or better known as Scout, does not wear frilly dresses and did not do things that young ladies in Alabama would’ve done. Scout would wear pants and would prefer to do activities that require them. She plays with boys, Jem and Dill and fights, using her fists. That is why her relatives and the traditional townspeople in Alabama who knows Scout are very against this. For example, her Aunt Alexandra picking on her attire and that because of this, she could not “be a ray of sunshine” (Lee, pg. 108) in her father’s lonely life. In addition, Scout is wholeheartedly very against the ‘girly’ things.
