To Kill a Mockingbird
5 lines of characterization for Aunt Alexandra (page number please)
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"She took off her glasses and stared at me. "I'll tell you why," she said. "Because—he—is—trash, that's why you can't play with him. I'll not have you around him, picking up his habits and learning Lord-knows-what." (Ch 23)
"Aunt Alexandra, in underlining the moral of young Sam Merriweather's suicide, said it was caused by a morbid streak in the family. Let a sixteen-year-old girl giggle in the choir and Aunty would say, "It just goes to show you, all the Penfield women are flighty." (ch 13)
"Aunt Alexandra was fanatical on the subject of my attire. I could not possibly hope to be a lady if I wore breeches; when I said I could do nothing in a dress, she said I wasn't supposed to be doing things that required pants." (Ch 9)
"I can't say I approve of everything he does, Maudie, but he's my brother, and I just want to know when this will ever end… It tears him to pieces." (ch 24)
"Aunt Alexandra's vision of my deportment involved playing with small stoves, tea sets..." Ch 9