In the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, what is Aunt Alexandra's attitude toward Bob Ewell, Tom Robinson and the trial? And what does she like to...

Since Atticus is her brother, Alexandra tends to support
him because he is family--and the Finch name has always been of the utmost importance to
her. If we can believe Scout's cousin, Francis, then we know that Alexandra cares little
for Negroes.

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"Grandma (Alexandra) says its bad enough he
(Atticus) lets you all run wild, but now he's turned out to be a
nigger-lover..."

We know that
Alexandra was not happy with Atticus defending Tom, since Scout later overheard her
arguing with her father.

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"She won't let him alone about Tom Robinson. She
almost said Atticus was disgracin' the
family."

Alexandra refused to
attend the trial, but she did seem sincerely disappointed that Atticus had suffered
defeat. Alexandra seems to have mellowed even more when she hears of Tom's death. But it
is her brother that she is most concerned about, not
Tom.

   "I
can't say I approve of everything he does, Maudie, but he's my brother, and I just want
to know when this will ever end... It tears him to
pieces."

Alexandra never
speaks much about Bob Ewell, but since she despises the Cunningham clan, we can only
assume that she must feel likewise about the Ewells. She does warn Atticus about Bob's
persistence, however.

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"His kind'd do anything to pay off a grudge. You
know how those people
are."

Perhaps Alexandra's
most telling opinion of Bob was one that was never uttered. In Chapter 27, she had a
premonition.

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... she stopped short in the middle of her
sentence. She closed her mouth, then opened it to say something, but no words
came.
    " 's matter, Auntie?" I asked.
    "Oh nothing, nothing,"
she said, "someone just walked over my
grave."

After the children
were attacked, Alexandra realized what her unexplained feeling had meant, and she blamed
herself for not understanding the implications of it.

As
for Alexandra's hobbies, she likes to socialize with other Maycomb women of high
standing; she enjoys cooking; and she attempts to put her mark on Atticus'
children--escpecially Scout, whom she hopes to somehow make more
ladylike.