In the description of Aunt Alexandra in Chapter 13 of To Kill a Mockingbird, it says "she was born in the objective case". What would that mean? A...

Scout's description of her Aunt Alexandra being "born in
the objective case" is a clever play on words by To Kill a
Mockingbird author Harper Lee. The objective case is a grammar term referring
to objective pronouns (used in the oblique case). Two of the most commonly used
objective pronouns are "me" and "her." I believe that the author was trying to say that
Aunt Alexandra is mainly concerned with "herself," and that everything is "about her:"
She is a "me" person--all things that happen she relates to how they affect "her." I
believe that the author probably also used the term to suggest that she objected to many
things--Calpurnia's role in the house, Scout's unladylike ways, Atticus' parenting
skills, Atticus' defense of Tom Robinson, Walter Cunningham's presence in the Finch
home, her husband's lazy ways, etc.