Īt Miss Maudie's house, Scout asks if all the neighbors are old, referring to Mrs. Scout says that Cecil Jacobs walked a whole mile to avoid those two houses as well. She says that she was never tempted to break them because of the scary neighbors that inhabited those houses. Dubose's house two doors north and the Radley place. Scout recalls that a little before she was 6, her summertime boundaries were within Mrs. Not much is known about their relationship, but Mrs. When she dies, she gifts him a camellia to show her forgiveness for what he did to her flowers, and Jem ends up holding it gently. Later, he stops resenting her, but is only politely interested in her. After he tears up her flower beds in anger, he is forced to read to her as punishment. Before her death, he is the one who helps her write her will. She also feels that it was a pity he didn't remarry. Dubose feels that Atticus didn't raise his children properly, and let them grow up into disrespectful children. Scout hated her, and the feeling was mutual. She had a morphine addiction for years due to a doctor's prescription, but swore to break it before her death after realizing she only had a few months to live.
Dubose lives two blocks north from the Finch family and spent most of her day in bed or in a wheelchair, living with only a female, black servant. She is considered meanest lady of the neighborhood and is most well known because she is always angry at Scout and Jem, despite any effort to pacify her. Dubose believes in the racism and gender roles of the time period. Her hands are knobby with age, and her cuticles grew over her fingers. Dubose is an old woman with light skin, with liver spots on her cheeks, as well as pale, dark eyes.
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