AUNT ALEXANDRA in Classic Quotes

1  Aunt Alexandra ignored my question.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 13

2  Aunt Alexandra was a back-porch listener.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 9

3  Aunt Alexandra was fanatical on the subject of my attire.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 9

4  When Uncle Jack looked down at me, his features were like Aunt Alexandra's.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 9

5  He also said Aunt Alexandra didn't understand girls much, she'd never had one.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 9

6  Aunt Alexandra's visits from the Landing were rare, and she traveled in state.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 13

7  "Put my bag in the front bedroom, Calpurnia," was the first thing Aunt Alexandra said.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 13

8  A flip of the coin revealed the uncompromising lineaments of Aunt Alexandra and Francis.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 9

9  Aunt Alexandra ministered to Francis, wiping his tears away with her handkerchief, rubbing his hair, patting his cheek.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 9

10  Enarmored, upright, uncompromising, Aunt Alexandra was sitting in a rocking chair exactly as if she had sat there every day of her life.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 12

11  Uncle Jack shook hands with Jem and swung me high, but not high enough: Uncle Jack was a head shorter than Atticus; the baby of the family, he was younger than Aunt Alexandra.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 9

12  I suppose I should include Uncle Jimmy, Aunt Alexandra's husband, but as he never spoke a word to me in my life except to say, "Get off the fence," once, I never saw any reason to take notice of him.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 9

13  Had I ever harbored the mystical notions about mountains that seem to obsess lawyers and judges, Aunt Alexandra would have been analogous to Mount Everest: throughout my early life, she was cold and there.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 9

14  When we arrived at the Landing, Aunt Alexandra kissed Uncle Jack, Francis kissed Uncle Jack, Uncle Jimmy shook hands silently with Uncle Jack, Jem and I gave our presents to Francis, who gave us a present.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 9

15  Aunt Alexandra was Atticus's sister, but when Jem told me about changelings and siblings, I decided that she had been swapped at birth, that my grandparents had perhaps received a Crawford instead of a Finch.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 9

16  Aunt Alexandra's vision of my deportment involved playing with small stoves, tea sets, and wearing the Add-A-Pearl necklace she gave me when I was born; furthermore, I should be a ray of sunshine in my father's lonely life.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 9

17  As he lived in Mobile, he could not inform on me to school authorities, but he managed to tell everything he knew to Aunt Alexandra, who in turn unburdened herself to Atticus, who either forgot it or gave me hell, whichever struck his fancy.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 9