Atticus calls Mrs. Dubose a great lady because in a way, they have similar morals. Atticus is standing up for the black man at trial and even though he knows he is not going to win, stays by his client’s side. He doesn’t care that he is risking his sot as a well talked about, good man, because he knows he is staying by his morals. He is teaching his children a good lesson and tries as hard as he can to be a good example. He then tells them the Mrs. Dubose was also a good role model of the morals he is trying to set into place in his children.
“She had her own views about things, a lot different from mine, maybe”… “I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked even before you begin but you begin anyways and you see through no matter what. You rarely win, but Mrs. Dubose won, all ninety-eight pounds of her. According to her views, she dies beholden to nothing and nobody. She was the bravest person I ever knew.”
When Atticus says that “she had her own views about things, a lot different then mine, maybe” he is in away saying that he is similar to her. He knows that she knows what “real courage” is. What Atticus did, by agreeing to defend a black man in a court case was real courage. He knew he couldn’t win, and was “licked” from the start. He however stood by his beliefs. This is why she is a great person because she stood by her beliefs as strongly as Atticus does. When the passage says, “You rarely win”, it is proving that he knew that he would probably not win. But Mrs. Dubose won, and she died knowing that. This is the message Atticus is trying to force his kids to understand. She died with probably no friends or family, but was the “bravest person” Atticus “ever” knew.
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