Gneder roles transfer from one generation to the next

"Don't you contradict me!" Mrs. Dubose bawled. "And you--" she pointed an arthritic finger at me--"What are you doing in those overalls? You should be in a dress and camisole, young lady! You'll grow up waiting on tables if somebody doesn't change your ways-- a Finch waiting on tables at the O.K. Café--hah!"

At this point in to kill a mockingbird Harper Lee is first introducing the nasty, sick, old lady: Mrs. Dubose. Repeatedly throughout the chapter Mrs. Dubose screeches annoying, horrible things at Scout and Jem about themselves and Atticus.

Personally I think that everything about that event was wrong (duh). Who is Mrs. Dubose to tell Scout what she can wear? Overall Mrs. Dubose generally annoy's me, a lot, so in a perfect world (even though TKAM didn't actually exsist) she could just die and everyone would be happy or she could just keep her opinions on scout to herself (but that isn't very realistic), or even get a vision of 2015 and see her wrong doings and accept scout for who she is. 

Mrs. Dubose's screeches showed how the expectations and ideas the elderly have on things like gender roles carry over from parts of their generation to newer generations after them. They often expect things that applied to them when they were children to apply to children now (I'm not saying that all old people are like this, but some, like Mrs. Dubose are).

Even though what Mrs. Dubose was saying about what Scout should be wearing isn't crazy for the time, because what she was saying is what was expected of many girls at the time and as crazy as something like that seems in today's society Scout was the outlier. Things like that can definitely be seen in today's society more prominently. Especially in matters like gender roles and expectations, the feelings of an old person's generation about it will transfer over to how they feel about it today (not saying that is what all or even most old people feel about it) and this will also apply to younger people too whose values were given to them from an older generation will feel similarly about things. 





(I don't know why there are two old lady pictures, there should only be one, I can't remove the other old lady, ignore the one in the blue shirt)