To Kill a Mockingbird

Why does Scout prefer her father's world?

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But I was more at home in my father’s world. People like Mr. Heck Tate did not trap you with innocent questions to make fun of you; even Jem was not highly critical unless you said something stupid. Ladies seemed to live in faint horror of men, seemed unwilling to approve wholeheartedly of them. But I liked them. There was something about them, no matter how much they cussed and drank and gambled and chewed; no matter how undelectable they were, there was something about them that I instinctively liked... they weren’t—

Hypocrites, Mrs. Perkins, born hypocrites,” Mrs. Merriweather was saying.

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To Kill a Mockingbird