Why does Mayella not have power and where does she not have power or not enough power? In the book To Kill A Mockingbird the author Harper Lee Characterized Mayella Ewell as a white woman who lives in a dumpy house and stays there cleaning the house every day. Mayella does not have power in the categories of race, class, and gender. She has some power in the category of gender, but it is not enough to make fill in the spots in the categories where she is not powerful. Mayella is most powerful when it comes to race, but she still doesn’t have enough power here to make up for the places where she’s not powerful. “Now don’t you be so confident, Mr. Jem, I ain’t ever seen any jury decide in favor of a colored man over a white man…” (Document
