Mayella Cept Quotes In To Kill A Mockingbird

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After being asked, Mayella had looked at her father who was sitting in the stands leaned back in his chair tipped against the railing. Mayella then responds, “he’s tollable, ‘cept when-“ Mayella suddenly stops and looks at her father as he stands up straight in his chair waiting for an answer from Mayella, she doesn’t tell the truth and continues, cept when he’s drinking”Quote( Lee chapter 18) . In the story, this quote makes Mayella even more powerful because if she would have told the truth right there and then she would have gotten her father in much trouble.
Mayella’s class is powerful in the story because she lives in a Negro cabin behind the town’s garbage dump with her father. A quote from the story is “Mayella looked from under lowered

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