TKAM Chapter 3

In this chapter, we see a more masculine side to Scout’s whole tomboy personality because she beats up Walter Cunningham in the school playground. She does this due to Miss Caroline punishing her. As of Chapter 2 we understood the economic situation of the Cunninghams; the are very poor and that they repay debt with labour or goods. Jem intervenes and to Scout’s shock invites him to dinner. During dinner Walter is represented as a gentleman:’  While Walter piled food on his plate, he and Atticus talked together like two men… ‘, however that is contradicted when Scout sees him use up a lot of food and she begins to complains, additionally her new opinion of Walter’s position in the Maycomb hierarchy drops from almost with Atticus, to back where he belongs.