She is a very young, first time teacher, with no experience in the classroom. She dresses very nicely, and is from a county in northern Alabama that is more wealthy than Macomb. She has never seen or dealt with the poverty that exists in her new classroom.

How does Miss Caroline Fisher feel at the end of her first day? How do you know? What does this tell us about the setting? She is stressed and feels defeated by the class.

What two mistakes did Miss Caroline make on the first day of school? Miss Caroline’s first mistake was to offer Walter Cunningham money; the Cunninghams don’t take anything they can’t pay back. Her second mistake was trying to tell Burris Ewell to go home and wash out his “cooties.”

Expert Answers On the first day of school, Miss Caroline makes Scout read the alphabet and then has her read the majority of My First Reader and the stock-market quotations from the Mobile Register aloud.

Scout’s main conflict with Miss Caroline is that her teacher does not try to understand her or Maycomb before making a judgement. Miss Caroline’s problem with Scout is that she doesn’t understand her, and she is in way over her head. She is a new young teacher, “no more than twenty-one,” and she is new to Maycomb too.

Miss Caroline is definitely not a good teacher. Although she purports to know the latest techinques taught her in college, there is more to being a good teacher than just rote knowledge. Miss Caroline is haughty, prejudicial, and arrogant.

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In Chapter 3, Burris scares Miss Caroline when a “cootie” falls out of his hair in the middle of class. Miss Caroline is startled and frightened when the tiny bug crawls onto the floor.

Miss Caroline is from Winston County, an area of North Alabama that is notorious in Maycomb. Miss Caroline is the new first grade teacher. She is brand new as a teacher.

What does Miss Caroline symbolize? Miss Caroline Fisher, Scout’s new and inexperienced young teacher, represents change in the education system and new teaching methods. She also represents the idea of the outsider who comes into Maycomb and does not understand the people or the community.

Miss Caroline is portrayed as an attractive, young woman. She is an inexperienced teacher and struggles to maintain control of her students. Miss Caroline is also portrayed as naive and rigid for criticizing Scout for reading at home with her father.

John “Jack” Finch is the younger brother of Atticus and Alexandra. He is about 40. Jack smells like alcohol and something sweet and it is said that he and Alexandra have similar features. Jack is a childless doctor who can always make Scout and Jem laugh, and they adore him.

He’s unmarried but has a female cat, and he spends a week every Christmas with Atticus, Scout, and Jem. He later tells Atticus shamefully that Scout’s rebuke makes him never want to have children.

He is a doctor, and he is also a lot of fun. He is the one who gives Jem and Scout what Atticus will not.