Visiting home can be really exciting and bring new fresh eyes. But to be the person everyone expects you to be is quite challenging and somewhat interesting. In the novel by Harper Lee, Go Set A Watchman , Jean Louise “Scout” Finch, now 26, returns from New York to her hometown of Maycomb, Alabama on her annual two-week visit. It follows some of the same beloved characters from Harper Lee’s award-winning novel, To Kill A Mockingbird.
Jean Louise sees that many things have changed in Maycomb in the years she has been living in New York, her brother Jem has died, her father Atticus who is now 72, a lawyer who is adored far and wide from the citizens of Maycomb now lives with his mean, status-obsessed Aunt Alexandra. Who she refers to as “the …show more content…
Even today in our lives, it is imperative that we come to past of things. Aunt Alexandra and Jean Louise were cleaning the dishes when Alexandra threw the plate to the ground. “We Finches do not marry redneck white trash, she says, which is exactly what Henry parents were when they were born and were all there lives”! Being married for 33 years, Aunt Alexandra knows when things are best for someone. Right now, she knows or insists that Jean Louise gets married to Henry, despite what she thinks. That conversation between them can show that’s what life was kind of like back in the 19th century, but Jean Louise cannot stand the life of women in that particular value system. Notice how she doesn’t say a word at her furious Aunt.
Jean Louise knows that she needs to grow up, but the fact that knowing if she does come out of her shell that means no turning back and she says, “I guess I should do it. I’m really getting up there”. By coming out of her shell, she rejects Henry and tells him the she refuses to marry him. This is can example of women’s rights, Alexandra effectively forces Jean Louise to marry Henry, but instead she doesn’t.
Harper Lee shows in To Kill a Mockingbird and Go Set a Watchman that Jean Louise can overcome any obstacle big or small no matter what people told or showed her. She didn’t care about the experiences from other people, she cared about her and her
Jean Louise sees that many things have changed in Maycomb in the years she has been living in New York, her brother Jem has died, her father Atticus who is now 72, a lawyer who is adored far and wide from the citizens of Maycomb now lives with his mean, status-obsessed Aunt Alexandra. Who she refers to as “the …show more content…
Even today in our lives, it is imperative that we come to past of things. Aunt Alexandra and Jean Louise were cleaning the dishes when Alexandra threw the plate to the ground. “We Finches do not marry redneck white trash, she says, which is exactly what Henry parents were when they were born and were all there lives”! Being married for 33 years, Aunt Alexandra knows when things are best for someone. Right now, she knows or insists that Jean Louise gets married to Henry, despite what she thinks. That conversation between them can show that’s what life was kind of like back in the 19th century, but Jean Louise cannot stand the life of women in that particular value system. Notice how she doesn’t say a word at her furious Aunt.
Jean Louise knows that she needs to grow up, but the fact that knowing if she does come out of her shell that means no turning back and she says, “I guess I should do it. I’m really getting up there”. By coming out of her shell, she rejects Henry and tells him the she refuses to marry him. This is can example of women’s rights, Alexandra effectively forces Jean Louise to marry Henry, but instead she doesn’t.
Harper Lee shows in To Kill a Mockingbird and Go Set a Watchman that Jean Louise can overcome any obstacle big or small no matter what people told or showed her. She didn’t care about the experiences from other people, she cared about her and her