Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird consists of more than one mockingbird, but none showed more vulnerability, loss of innocence, and embodied hope than that of Mayella Ewell. During Mayella’s trial, she is defenseless, stuck between her stubborn dad and the persistent cross examination of Atticus. She is so fearful that she bursts into tears before the judge and cries out that she “Don’t want him [Atticus] doin’ me like he done Papa” (240). Furthermore, when Mayella finally collected herself enough to testify, “she had twisted her handkerchief into a sweaty rope” (241) further demonstrating her burden of vulnerability. During Tom Robinson’s testimony he exposes Mayella’s incestuous relationship with her father, “She says she never kissed
