In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird there are many different characters and when it comes to power, things are never that clear. The setting of this book was set in Maycomb, Alabama during the early 1930s. The book is in narrated by a young girl whose name is Jean Louise Finch, but goes by Scout, and in this story we are surrounded in Tom Robinsons trial where he is accused of raping Mayella Ewell a white woman in the lower class. During this time power was categorized into three different forces class, gender, and race. But in this particular argument we wonder about Mayella Ewell's power as a young white woman in the lower class. Although mayella was disrespected because of her class and gender, she has an advantage in the trial against
