Short Character Summary:

Scout is a very unusual little girl, both in her own qualities and in her social position.

unusually thoughtful (she worries about the essential goodness and evil of mankind)

He has nurtured her mind, conscience, and individuality without bogging her down in fussy social hypocrisies and notions of propriety.
She does not always grasp social niceties (she tells her teacher that one of her fellow students is too poor to pay her back for lunch), and human behavior often baffles her (as when one of her teachers criticizes Hitler’s prejudice against Jews while indulging in her own prejudice against blacks)
Atticus’s protection of Scout from hypocrisy and social pressure has rendered her open, forthright, and well meaning.

no experience with the evils of the world.
Scout has her first contact with evil in the form of racial prejudice
Scout learns that though humanity has a great capacity for evil, it also has a great capacity for good, and that the evil can often be mitigated if one approaches others with an outlook of sympathy and understanding.
Whatever happens in the novel, she will retain her conscience without becoming cynical or jaded.
Though she is still a child at the end of the book, Scout’s perspective on life develops from that of an innocent child into that of a near grown-up.

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Quotes, Character analysis and development and explanations for Scout (Jean Louise)