To Kill a Mockingbird

20. Why does Scout compare Aunt Alexandra to Mt. Everest? How is she described and how does this metaphor depict her?

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Scout sees Aunt Alexandra as an imovable object in her life. Autnt Alexandra feels remote and cold like Mt. Everest, "throughout my early life, she was cold and there."

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