Femininity In To Kill A Mockingbird

I think that the femininity as it's portrayed in the novel, in that exact time period, would be seen as a positive or accurate portrayal of feminism. The female characters that we follow like Scout, aunt Alexandra, and Miss Maudie are all living in a world where a man’s word will almost always be taken over a woman's word. The characters all represent different takes on feminism; each character has their own view on how they believe a woman should act. Scout, almost instantly when we meet her differentiates herself from the standard rules of girlhood that are later established in the novel. The portrayal of Scout in the story is more comparable to a modern day child in the twenty first century, than to one living in the twentieth century.