Trails of a true Southern Belle and Southern Gentlemen

a. What were the rules of etiquette for the southern gentlemen and ladies?
Mannerisms to be carefully avoided by all
Manners appropriate for all
• Whispering or pointing in company.
• Omitting to pay proper attention to company when entering or exiting a room.
• Giving attention to only one person when more are present.
• Contradicting parents, friends or strangers.
• Laughing loudly.
• Making noise with hands or feet.
• Swinging arms or making awkward gestures in company or in the street.
• Actions that have the most remote tendency to indelicacy.
• Leaning on the shoulder, or chair of another person.
• Throwing things rather than handing them.
• Crowding or bumping elbows.
• Contempt in looks, words or actions.
• Lolling on a chair.
• Looking earnestly in the face without any apparent cause.
• Surliness of any kind (distortion of countenance, and mimicry
• Ridicule of every kind.
• A constant smile or settled frown.
• Lending a borrowed book.
• Dressing in a bright and loud manner that attracts attention.
• Reading when there is company.
• Reading when others are talking.
• Reading aloud without being asked.
• Laughing at the mistakes of others.
• Speaking or acting in anger.
• To neglect little things if they can affect the comfort of others.
Manners appropriate for all
• To govern yourself and be gentle and patient.
• To remember that as valuable as the gift of speech it, silence is often more valuable.
• To speak with a gentle tone of voice.
• Learning to deny yourself and prefer others.
• Giving applause liberally to others, but only by the clapping of hands and never the stamping or kicking of feet.
• To rise to ones feet out of respect for an older person or dignitary.

b. What do the southern ladies do during their free time. (Hobbies)

They baked cakes.

c. Pictures of a Southern gentlemen and southern lady.

d.Identify characters in the novel that fit the mould of true southern belles and gentlemen and those who don't. Explain why they fit the mould and why they don't.

Gentleman- Atticus- He has all the etiquettes above and he is also very helpful.

Belle- Miss Maudie- She is very kind and bakes cakes, then, she gives the cakes to her neighbours.
Answers for question b,c and d taken from: http://thenotnamed.blogspot.com/