How do Atticus and aunt Alexandra differ in opinion over the cunninghams?

Answer 1

Aunt Alexandra is very traditional where Atticus is progressive. Alexandra is pretentious and highly values tradition and show, where Atticus values honesty and fairness. Also Alexandra pressures Scout to act more like a lady where Atticus loves Scout the way she is.

Answer 2

Atticus sees the Cunninghams as good people with strong moral values, despite their poverty. He believes in treating them with respect and understanding. Aunt Alexandra, on the other hand, holds more traditional views and looks down on the Cunninghams due to their social status and lack of education. She believes they are beneath their family's social circle.

Answer 3

Atticus and Alexandra are two very different people. The only similarity I can think of is that they both care about others, but in very different ways. Alexandra cares what others think...Atticus actually cares about the people themselves. Alexandra seems to represent the old traditional South, clinging to her heritage (what little 'fame' she might have), social standing, prejudices, outward appearance, and southern hospitality/graces. She is appalled that Scout acts so much like a little boy rather than being and dressing properly as she feels a lady should. Atticus on the other hand is progressive. He is considered to be fair, just, and honest. He has new ideas and new philosophies about life, and he raises Scout and Jem in this progressive manner. He allows both Jem and Scout to express themselves and doesn't require that they behave in ways 'worthy' of the Finch name. He is opposed to a false show of etiquette and behavior, and prefers to live openly and honestly with himself, his children, and his neighbors. Alexandra has "river boat boarding school manners," and while Atticus is a gentleman, he is also very relaxed and unpretentious. She feels she is better than others, while Atticus is quick to tell her that their "generation's practically the first in the Finch Family not to marry its cousins," noting they are as "common" as anyone else. Alexandra wants Scout to behave like a lady, and while Atticus tries to reinforce his sister's wishes, Scout knows that he loves her the way she is, which, at the time, is more of a tomboy than a lady.

Answer 4

There are severe differences between Atticus and Aunt Alexandra. She sees things as family lineage and status in the town, while Atticus understands and accepts the town differences. Aunt Alexandra believes Scout should act more like a female, and Atticus loves her the way she is.

Answer 5

Atticus believes that his children should be allowed to hang out with anyone they want, including the Cunninghams.

Aunt Alexandra believes that Scout and Jem shouldn't hang out with kids like Walter Cunningham because they're from the country and are more poor than them. She also thinks that people from the country are bad.

Answer 6

the difference between those two are that atticus is a hard working man he cares for his kids but he doesn't make scout act like a lady and he let them do what ever basically and aunt Alexandra she is not hard working she stays at home and she cares for the kids but she is trying to make scout be a lady and she always want to know where the kids are and she gets really worried about them all the time especially when they where at the Court hearing and she thought they where missing.

Answer 7

Whether Calpurnia should work there anymore considering she was African American and almost and equivalent of a mother to the children. Atticus stood against his sister and stood up for Calpurnia. Aunt Alexandria also wants Scout to act more like a lady, which Scout and Atticus both know she wont be willing to do.

Answer 8

They disagree on how Attics should treat/teach his kids.

Answer 9

Scout is worried that they are thinking about her, but she hears them talking about Calpurnia at the end of the conversation