Atticus calls Mrs. Dubose a great lady because he thinks she does what she believes is correct. She is a morphine addict, she would take them as painkillers everyday. She got sick and the doctors told her that she would only have a few months to live. She wanted to die without holding on to anything or anyone. She felt that it would be better if she died not addicted to the pills.
“She said she was going to leave this world beholding 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 all right for her. She said she mentioned to break herself of it before she died, and that’s what she did.”
“She said she was going to leave this world beholding nothing and nobody.” She wanted to follow what she believed and she stopped taking the pills. Many people would have kept taking them because it stops the pain. She stopped and died accomplishing what she wanted to be done. She wanted to “Break herself of it.” The “it” refers to her addiction to the morphine. She mentioned to break herself of it and “that’s what she did.” Because she stopped taking the pills, Atticus thought she was a brave lady. She went through all the pain to leave the world “holding nothing and nobody.”
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