![]() ![]() Maycomb is a town without train service, and its bus service “was erratic and seemed to go nowhere.” How does this lack of connection isolate the citizens of Maycomb, and how does that isolation affect how they see themselves and outsiders? Early in the novel, her longtime friend Henry Clinton tells her “you’re gonna see Maycomb change its face completely in our lifetime.” What does he foresee that Jean Louise cannot-or perhaps does not want to see?Ĥ.Think about the extended Finch family. Harper Lee writes, “Until comparatively recently in its history, Maycomb County was so cut off from the rest of the nation that some of its citizens, unaware of the South’s political predilections over the past ninety years, still voted Republican.” What are these predilections, and where do they originate? What is Harper Lee telling us about the period and the politics and attitudes of this small Southern town?ģ. If you have read Mockingbird, has the town changed in the intervening years? If so, how?Ģ. Describe the Maycomb of Go Set a Watchman. When Wa t c h m a n opens, Jean Louise Finch-now twenty-six and living in the North, in New York City-is returning to her hometown of Maycomb, Alabama. ![]() Go Set a Watchman takes place more than twenty years after To Kill a Mockingbird begins. ![]()
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