Walter Cunningham is one of Harper Lee’s fictional characters that gets prejudiced in his town of Maycomb, Alabama. In How to Kill a Mockingbird, Scout is a young girl who happens to be a classmate of Walter Cunningham. She makes prejudicial assumptions about Walter due to him being in a lower social class than she is. Scout knows this since because Walter shows up to school with no shoes on or a lunch, since his family cannot afford them. However, Scout soon realizes she was wrong to make these assumptions after some guidance through Atticus, her father, and Calpurnia, her housekeeper. Harper Lee uses Walter Cunningham to represent the prejudice against social class in this novel by incorporating important characters to help guide Scout to
