In the book To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout certainly struggles with the social desires that are imposed on her. Although she is young, the people around her continually try to remind her that she is supposed to behave like a "woman". Within the book, she is considered a spit; she goes into battle, dresses unexpectedly compared to other young women her age, and asks intense questions that make people humiliated and more chivalrous than their activities. All of these are things a young woman in the ancient South would not have had the power to do.