Answer:
Atticus treated both women as a typical Southern lady, with respect and politeness even though they may do/say something against his own children.
Explanation:
Harper Lee's "To Kill A Mockingbird" revolves around the lives of the American South state of Maycomb, Alabama. The racist attitude of the people and the lives of the people during the prejudice times is also reflected in the story.
Atticus Finch is the lawyer dad of the small children characters Jem and Scout Finch. They are the family whose interactions with their other characters through which we will be acquainted with the issue an lives of the people in that town.
The characters of Mrs. Dubose and Miss Maudie are two contrasting women in the story. Mrs. Dubose is elderly and ill-tempered whereas Miss Maudie is a sharp-tongued widow but a good friend of the Finches, even the children. Atticus' treatment of these two women is just the typical gentleman, treating them with respect and courtesy and politeness. Even though Mrs. Dubose insulted the children, Atticus took no anger. Rather, he continued to treat her like he would treat any other women. He treated her like a real Southern lady, politely holding the door for her even after she had insulted his children.
Likewise, Miss Maudie may have never shown her opinion about whatever Atticus had done, but in her treatment of the Finch children, we can know that she supports him in his choice of defending Tom. Even though she knows that defending a colored man in a white majority community is tricky and even risky, she still kept her support for him fro she knows what he is doing is right.
