![]() “What would happen if all the Negroes in the South were suddenly given full civil rights? I’ll tell you, there’d be another Reconstruction. “Now think about this,” he tells his daughter. We also encounter Atticus’ even-handedness: his insistence on “always (trying) to put himself in his client’s shoes.” In “Go Set a Watchman,” however, this is not a marker of his moral dependability but rather of his moral corruption.Ĭorruption? Yes - for this is not the Atticus of “To Kill a Mockingbird.” In “Go Set a Watchman,” he has turned a treacherous corner, aligning with the citizens council and the Ku Klux Klan. We learn, in a passage virtually identical to one in “To Kill a Mockingbird,” of the town’s origin as county seat. ![]() ![]() Lee introduces us to Maycomb, its history and inconsistencies, as if we have never been here before. ![]()
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