Another subplot develops the idea of a community through the missionary meeting at the Finches’ house. Even the missionary ladies are worried about the community and the others around them. They knew that the case is going to go Ewell’s way because it is very rare that the case is won by the colored people back then. “I mean this town. They’re perfectly willing to let him do what they’re too afraid to do themselves—it might lose‘ em a nickel. They’re perfectly willing to let him wreck his health doing what they are afraid to do…’’(Lee 316). Aunt Alexandra is worried about Atticus himself a part of the case that is already lost since the beginning. There is a reason that they have chosen Atticus for this case rather than some other lawyer.
