He did not do the things our schoolmates’ fathers did: he never went hunting, he did not play poker or fish or drink or smoke. He sat in the livingroom and read.
– Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird, Chapter 10. Atticus stands out as different to other people in Maycomb. He spends his time reading, instead of hunting, gambling, fishing, drinking or smoking. In this passage the young Scout is actually complaining about her nearly fifty-year-old father, whom she moans is “feeble” and doesn’t do anything except read and work in an office.