Identify Finch's Landing.

Finch's Landing is also important for what it represents.
The fact that the Finch family has some sort of a name or a history is very important in
this piece. They are a family that is not from outside, so they should know how to
behave, but they don't. Atticus is a bit of a rebel, albeit a quiet one. He is as
removed from Finch's landing as he can possibly be and he does not require that Jem and
Scout live up to the expectations of "Finch behavior" as is clear when the family visits
the landing.

Aunt Alexandra and her husband do live at
Finch's Landing and they are representative of an entirely different set of social and,
to some degree moral behavior patterns. When Scout and Jem visit there at Christmas this
is evident in the interaction that they have with their cousin Francis who is also
representative of what can best be described, perhaps, as pretentious and self-centered
behavior. The Finches of Finch's Landing put on airs.

When
Aunt Alexandra comes to stay with Jem and Scout, as well, the difference in the rules
and expectations is evident. Aunt Alexander wants Scout to attend tea, wear proper
dresses, and behave like a lady - in other words, to be a proper Finch, but Scout is
having none of it.

In this regard, Finch's Landing
represents two different belief systems as well - the past and tradition which supported
segregation and racial prejudice versus the newly emerging ideologies of the future that
are shown not only in Atticus but in Jem and Scout who will presumably carry them on to
future generations breaking away from the narrow-minded ideologies that Finch's Landing
represents.