Mrs Dubose

When we are first introduced to Mrs Dubose, she comes across as an angry, racist and morphine adict. Because of this and the things she says Jem trashes her flower beds through anger. Jem is then made to read to Mrs Dubose much to his dislike. But he soon finds out that she was a morphine adict and she has just stopped taking the treatment. This was what was making her come across as the person Jem thought she was but when he was reading her, little did he know but it was helping her. Reading to her helped her concentrate on one thing at a time. This helped her rest and just a few days before her death we realise that she isnt the person she first appeared to be, she was the suffering from a problem that she was trying to over come.