Jack Kerouac's Mrs. Dubose Parapraph

Atticus Finch calls Mrs. Dubose a great lady because she follows her own morals. Mrs. Dubose always says what she is thinking and does not hold anything back. She does this when she tells Atticus that he is going to spend his life bailing Jean Louise out of jail and by disapproving of his position in the court case. But she also lives by her own morals when she is alone. An example of this is on page 148 when Atticus is explaining how she tried to break off her morphine addiction which was keeping her alive,

"She said she was going to leave this world beholden to nothing and nobody. Jem, when you're sick as she was, it's all right to take anything to make it easier, but it wasn't right for her. She said she meant to break herself of it before she died, and that's what she did."

The repeated use of actions such as "she said" or "she did" shows how she did not just follow her own morals but also acted upon them. Atticus thinks Mrs. Dubose is a great lady because she was true to her word. When she said something she intended to do it and that is why Atticus called Mrs. Dubose a great lady. The word sick shows how at that particular moment of time Mrs. Dubose was at disease. Mrs. Dubose. still stuck to her morals during her time being sick to make sure that she was not beholden to anything. The idea of it being all right to take morphine to stay alive seems totally normal however she did not agree with taking morphine and followed her own morals and went off of the morphine. Atticus calls Mrs. Dubose a great lady because she was always true to her morals and acted upon them.