Does M. E. Thomas Have To Do When You Grow Up As A Girl

M.E. Thomas, the author of Confession of a Sociopath states, “When you grow up as a girl, it is like there are faint chalk lines traced approximately three inches around your entire body at all times, drawn by society and often religion and family and particularly other women, who somehow feel invested in how you behave, as if your actions reflect directly on all womanhood.” M.E. Thomas idea means a girl is born with rules, the pressure from society causes many grow up women to hide in their own bodies, they’re afraid of judgment, how they will never be accepted for being different than others. Like M.E. Thomas, Harper Lee’s novel addresses the same concern because Scout’s family, especially her aunt and women in Maycomb, put a heavy weight on Scout’s shoulder on . In To Kill A Mockingbird, to fit with the rest of the world, Scout transformed from a girl to a young lady due to gender roles because of the society's

For example, there is girly existed in Scout, “The ladies were cool in fragile pastel prints: heavily powdered... the only lipstick in the room was Tangee Natural... Cutex Natural sparkled on their fingernails...the younger ladies wore Rose.” (pg. 233) As a matter of fact, in the past, the protagonist always acting like she was afraid of ladies, but Scout actually knew about beauty and paid attention their faces, lips, and nails, she even informs the reader the brands. By all means, the old Jean Louise will not bother to see what these women in Maycomb are wearing, Scout’s description very details. Generally speaking, taking many judgements from people, Jean Louise also fascinated by them; there are still parts of her against the ideas of ladylike, but over time, she changed, before, Scout always disagreed with Aunt Alexandra, who tried to teach her how to behave right, but recently, the protagonist acted softly - just a young lady. From a tomboy, Scout started to turn into a little