However, Miss Maudie and Calpurnia have their differences as well. For example, Calpurnia has more of an affect on Scout as a mother figure when it comes to discipline and manners, such as when Walter Cunningham came over for dinner, whereas Miss Maudie's advice was generally pertaining to life situations or concepts. In addition to that, Calpurnia's relationship with Scout is more direct and explicit, but Miss Maudie's affect was more passive.
These characters both play an important role in Scout's childhood and process of maturing, as they serve as mother figures. Both of these important women influence Scout in ways that will alter and guide the sculpting of her character. Although these two characters aren't the only ones who play as a mother figure to a scout in this book, or attempt to at least, they are probably the most important ones and the ones that influenced her the most. The changes they made on Scout, or the behaviors they instructed and modeled for her to follow, varied in categories of manners, clothing, respect, and points of views on all kinds of subjects.
