Mrs. Dubose

Mrs. Dubose is an elderly, racist women who lives close to the Finches. She is ill-tempered and insults Jem and Scout on several occasions. Everyone views Mrs. Dubose as a truly bad women but little do they know that she is battling her morphine addiction. Her one goal before she left this world was to free herself from her morphine addiction. Jem had the misfortune of reading to her everyday as a result of him destroying her flowers. Each day her would read more and more until Mrs. Dubose didn't need to take the morphine. The alarm clock was her signal to take the morphine but Jem would continue reading as the alarm clock went off. Mrs. Dubose displays courage by trying to stop her morphine addiction and although she dies, she dies a free women.