Parents Home Homeschool College Resources. Study Guide. By Harper Lee. Previous Next. Mayella Ewell Among the trash and cast-offs in the Ewell yard, there's one spot of beauty. Flower or Weed? But to justify sending an innocent man to death, the jury has to believe in her as a representative of "fragile" white women everyone: A young girl walked to the witness stand. It's not just ideals of women at stake, but also of men: "I got somethin' to say an' then I ain't gonna say no more. Well, when you put it that way, it doesn't sound very manly, does it?
Daddy's Girl When Mayella accuses a black man, she's able to access the privileges of white Southern womanhood—namely, the chivalrous protection of men, no questions asked. Walter Cunningham Jr. All Mockingbirds do is bring beauty to the world. Mockingbirds symbolize innocence and do not deserve to be wounded by the cruelness of the world.
They are innocent people. Scout begins the novel as a six year old girl who does not fully recognise how skewed her world is until she is nine and sees what it really means to kill a mockingbird due to the actions of a shy Arthur Radley. Boo in the town of Maycomb is what the people call a phantom.
Tom Robinson is on trial for rape. In the book Atticus, Tom and Boo represent mockingbirds. Atticus is put to represent Tom in his trial. She understands that Atticus is making the case that Mr. Mayella takes the stand. Scout can tell that Mayella tries but fails to keep clean, and Atticus takes over questioning. Scout is flabbergasted and Judge Taylor assures Mayella that Atticus asks Mayella to identify her rapist, so she points at Tom.
Atticus asks Tom to stand, and He often greeted Mayella , and last spring she asked him to chop up a chiffarobe. He refused the nickel Scout realizes that Mayella must be the loneliest person in the world and is probably lonelier than Boo Radley Tom says that the Ewell place seemed quiet.
He says that Mayella is guilty. He says that Judge Taylor made Cite This Page. Home About Story Contact Help. Defending his daughter by going to court should raise his family's stature. If they don't gain more respect from the community, at least Bob won't have to live with talk in the black community about a white woman making a play for a married black man. Unfortunately, all of Ewell's plans backfire. By the end of the trial, he and his daughter are proven liars, he's been publicly identified as a sexually and physically abusive father who fails to provide for his family, and the entire town knows that Mayella made sexual overtures toward Tom.
Instead of improving his life, Ewell cements his family's horrible reputation once and for all. In this situation, Bob Ewell can do little but try to recover his own pride. He makes good on his threats to harm the people who embarrassed him in court. He rejoices in Tom's death. Bob Ewell is the kind of person who actually seems to enjoy being despicable.
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