Why would Mayella Ewell lie at the trial? First, is that she doesn’t want people to find out the truth about what happened. One reason is she doesn’t want her dad to beat her. She wants her dad to think it was Tom Robinson and she doesn’t to disappoint her dad. She tempted Tom. Mayella made the first move on Tom and she is attracted to him. Next, it goes agiants the socities beliefs (whites over blacks). Some reasons could be that they can’t like one another. For example, they can’t be together and blacks can only work for whites. They have to be seperated by colors. They have to go to different churches and have seperate communities. In summary, I think some of these reasons is why Mayella would lie.
