Since Tom has the short arm, Tom could not be the one to take dominance of Mayella because instead of the lies she has disclosed, she called Tom over to simply break up a chiffarobe for her. Once he was inside the house, Mayella escalated the situation and started to kiss Tom. The text states, “”She says what her papa do to her don’t count.”” Some will say it is not a sexual relationship between Mayella and Bob but when Bob gets tipsy, as we learned from the last quote, he can get pretty riled up and most likely abuses Mayella physically and sexually which Mayella probably welcomes now. This explains that Tom could not have abused and sexually assaulted her because of his short arm and because of the statement Mayella had said to Tom about what her father does to her does not
Since Tom has the short arm, Tom could not be the one to take dominance of Mayella because instead of the lies she has disclosed, she called Tom over to simply break up a chiffarobe for her. Once he was inside the house, Mayella escalated the situation and started to kiss Tom. The text states, “”She says what her papa do to her don’t count.”” Some will say it is not a sexual relationship between Mayella and Bob but when Bob gets tipsy, as we learned from the last quote, he can get pretty riled up and most likely abuses Mayella physically and sexually which Mayella probably welcomes now. This explains that Tom could not have abused and sexually assaulted her because of his short arm and because of the statement Mayella had said to Tom about what her father does to her does not