First, let’s define trash and then we’ll get to Boo. Atticus’s definition of trash is someone with no integrity or regard for another race. Alexandra on the other hand, defies trash as anyone born to lower class families. While Atticus thinks that prejudice is bad, Alexandra encourages it. In the context of Boo Radley, this means that Boo is viewed as trash by Alexandra and not by Atticus.
I hated reading how too kill a mockingbird, Atticus and his sister have completely different meanings of trash. In chapter 23, Atticus and Jem are discussing the outcome of the Tom Robinson trial, and Atticus talks about racial injustice. Atticus then tells his son this,
. . . whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash (Lee, 224).
