To Kill A Mockingbird Calpurnia Character Traits

Calpurnia can be a particularly difficult character to understand in To Kill a Mockingbird. She has worked for the Finch's family as the cook ever since Jem Finch was born. Even though Cal, which is what everyone always calls her for short, is just the Finch family's cook, she does way more than just cook. Calpurnia is loving towards the Finch family;and she acts as a motherly figure for Jem and Scout; she is a hard worker, and she goes above and beyond in what she does, and she likes to be presentable in public, especially in front of the other African-Americans in town.

At first, Calpurnia may seem as though she does not have that great of a personality from how Scout describes her, but throughout the story, we can see that Scout starts to look up to Calpurnia more and more each day. As this happens we can see that Calpurnia is loving towards the Finches. We can tell that she loves the Finches because just the way that she cares for Jem and Scout. She is their motherly figure in place of their actual mom because their mother died four years after Jem and two after Scout were born. Another example that she loves them is, "Calpurnia bent down and kissed me. I ran along, wondering what had come over her.

We can tell that Cal is a hard worker because she cooks great meals for the family and she also does a lot more than that too. She is also the housekeeper for the Finches, and she cares for Jem and Scout while their father, Atticus, is at work. We know that she is a hard worker because she arrives in the early morning to the Finch's and goes home late at night, she sometimes even stays the night when she works later than usual. Also, its says, "Calpurnia was to blame for this. It kept me from driving her crazy on rainy days, I guess. She would set me a writing task by scrawling the alphabet firmly across the top of a tablet, then copying out a chapter of the Bible beneath (Lee,