Jean Louise Finch

Book Report Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee, revolves around the character Jean Louise Finch, also known as Scout, from the book To Kill a Mockingbird. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Jean Louise was a young innocent child who saw everyone as equal, and she idolized her father, Atticus Finch, so much so that he was a god-like figure to her. In Go Set a Watchman, Jean Louise is a twenty six year old women, who still believes everyone should be treated equally, and is astounded that her father does not have the same beliefs as she does. When Jean Louise travels from New York to her home town of Maycomb, Alabama, she quickly realizes that her father, Atticus Finch, is not the same man that taught her what was considered moral and immoral. This comes to her attention when she followed her father and her father’s apprentice who is also her boyfriend, Hennery Clinton, to a citizens’ council meeting. Jean Louise was amazed at what she witnessed, because her father introduced a prejudiced white man who spoke during the meeting. Jean Louise was so mortified that her father was attending and participating in a meeting that promoted segregation, that …show more content…
I read on the internet that after your editor read Go Set a Watchman she persuaded you to write about a younger Jean Louise. I believe that was the right decision to publish To kill a Mockingbird first. I may be wrong, but I think that you took your editor’s advice because you realized that it would make more sense to let your audience discover how Jean Louise matured and why it was so important that she grew as a person that formulated her own opinions. Another reason I think you published To Kill a Mockingbird first was to make it clear to the reader what Jean Louise’s childhood was like, and how the Tom Robinson’s court case affected the way she viewed African American