"Aunt Alexandra fitted into the world of Maycomb like a hand in a glove, but never into the
world of Jem and me." Explain.
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This means that Aunt Alexandria fits right into the crowd of the Maycomb County, but doesn’t exactly fit in Jem and Scout's "crowd". Aunt Alexandra and a lot of white people from Maycomb, are racist, and have very different views on life than Jem and Scout do. Jem and Scout have been raised and taught by both Atticus and Calpurnia. This makes a huge difference in attitudes because this means that neither Jem nor Scout have been raised snotty, which is what most of the kids in Maycomb have been raised like.
This sentence explains that Aunt Alexandra is part of the Maycomb society. Her frank personality might make her seem as a racist, but I don’t think Aunt Alexandra is a racist like many other whites living in Maycomb. However I do think she is afraid of the fact that she may become a subject of a gossip. She wants her life to be favourable. It isn’t bad to fit into the society. However since she is Jem and Scout’s aunt, it is harmful for her to be unable to understand Jem and Scout. If Aunt Alexandra finds conflict with Jem or Scout, it may become more serious than it meant to be. The sentence may also mean that Jem and Scout have different thoughts compared to other people in Maycomb.
The sentence "Aunt Alexandra fitted into the world of Maycomb like a hand in a glove, but never into the world of Jem and me" tells me that the crowd of Maycomb really gets her and really understands her feelings and beliefs. But the only people who don’t understand them like the people in Maycomb, is Jem and Scout. When Aunt Alexandra explains and tells what they have to do, Jem and Scout don’t really like her ideas and they always think that that isn’t the way you should do stuff and that it is the wrong way to do it. This tells that Jem and Scout really have different opinions than the people who live in Maycomb. I think that it is different since Aunt Alexandra is racist, but not as other whites, she thinks differently. And since Jem and Scout has been taught by Calpurnia and Atticus since they were small, Jem and Scout have different ways of thinking and doesn’t like what Aunt Alexandra thinks because maybe of what they have learned when they were small.
Aunt Alexandra was just like the rest of Maycomb, but was probably more liked because of her charm and style. She has the same beliefs as the rest of Maycomb, and she is racist as well ( As Yasmin said before). Aunt Alexandra wanted for Jem and Scout to be raised up properly, not by just Atticus alone. Maybe the rest of Maycomb thought that Aunt Alexandra's purpose for coming to Maycomb was a good idea after all.
the sentence, at least for me, explains that Aunt Alexandra actualy lives in a world full of stereotypes and classes. In the book, Scout asks her if Walter Cunningham can come to play with her after school starts. What Aunt Alexandra says is no, Cunninghams are not the Finches' type. Aunt Alexandra's point of view is not like the children because they do not believe in Stereotypes.
I am in agreement with all of these opinions, but with Maria's mostly. She said "stereotypes and classes." Maycomb and the southern towns were all about stereotypes. The ladies had to be ladylike, and the men had more power. Jem and Scout (especially Scout) do not like the southern ways because they are all fixed. Scout wants to act the way she wants, and not the way other people want her to act. Jem supports Scout in that opinion, although his support weakened in the second part of the book. Jem and Scout’s world is a world of their own where they do what they think is right. This means that they do not follow stereotypes, so Aunt Alexandra will never be able to fit in with them.
Just as everyone had said, Aunt Alexandra is a typical woman in Maycomb County, and since she acts like one of the women in there, they think that she fits in anyplace, because of how rapidly she could socialize with the citizens. She does not fit in the world of Jem and Scout because she does not give them the chance to show their emotions. She does not understand the children, or it seems she does not want to. It shows how selfish she is, and only cares of the image the children will have in the future. She exaggerates too much with the children because of the name they have and how important it is in rank, making her way too precautious with their appearances and manners. The children do not like her for not even trying to accept their beliefs or opinions.
Aunt Alexandra fit in Maycomb very well because most of the people there are the same as she is. They like that people fit in the normal stereotypes. She has charm and style which the people in Maycomb like, and is racist like most of the people as well. She does not fit into Scout and Jem's worlds because they do not follow the ordinary stereotypes. They are different from the rest and Aunt Alexandra has a hard time accepting that.
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