Is Mayella Powerful

Why Mayella is Powerful Mayella is powerful because she is white, she may be a woman, but she is a white woman, she may be poor, but she is a white poor person. Race beats class and gender, especially in the time of when To Kill a Mockingbird takes place. Mayella is a white woman who lives in Maycomb County, Alabama in the 1930s. She accuses Tom Robinson, a black man of raping her and when she does the case is taken to court. During the time that she is in court we can clearly see that Mayella has the advantage of winning the case, not because of her class or gender but of her race, and since Tom Robinson is a black man in court that is run by all whites he has a far disadvantage of being proven innocent. The very obvious reason to why people may view Mayella as powerful is that she’s white. …show more content…
In fact, almost everyone in Maycomb County, Alabama is poor or has no money due to the Great Depression. Why should class matter as much about her race and gender if what they meant by “class” was different kinds of poor. Mayella is still white and class doesn’t give her much disadvantage against Tom Robinson, who is a black man and black people were seen even lower than poor whites according to how class worked back then.
Mayella is indeed a a person who is powerful. In a view from how society views her she is powerful. Even though she is seen as a poor woman, she is a white poor woman and that’s what makes her powerful. The fact that she’s white because race does beat class and gender. Therefore Mayella Ewell from To Kill a Mockingbird is someone who has