I think Scout knows that Atticus' job wasn't to console the children on how they should live up to the "Finch" name. She knew immediately that it wasn't Atticus saying that, it was more Aunt Alexandra putting pressure on Atticus to talk to the children. I think that this is why Scout starts to cry, Atticus was talking to Scout in his "lawyer voice" and this may confuse Scout because she knows that this isn't the real Atticus, Atticus appears to be angry with himself for even mentioning the topic "He went to the door and out of the room, shutting the door behind him. He nearly slammed it..." (Lee 134). He regrets it because he knows that Scout and Jem didn't get it and that they did not need to hear that, they were being raised perfectly fine, it was too much to say. The last line is significant because Scout states that Atticus shouldn't have done anything, that was the role of a woman or mother figure to have this talk, Aunt Alexandra or Calpurnia should have said this, not rely on Atticus, a figure that is someone that the children deeply know, they know just about every aspect of how he talks and behaves around them, for him to talk out of charcter is abnormal to console her and Jem, it was out of place for a man like Atticus to be doing something like this.
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