Do you want them in our world?” By this, Jean Louise is completely shocked and the image of the hero Atticus is further shattered in her mind.
It is insightful to evaluate Atticus in Go Set a Watchman and examine how Harper Lee had refined him into the character he is in To Kill a Mockingbird. It is known that Harper Lee’s own father was a lawyer, and was largely the inspiration for Atticus Finch. It is known that Harper Lee’s father had once been a segregationist who opposed school integration during the period of time that Harper Lee had been working on Go Set a Watchman but later changed his mind and believed in integration sometime during Harper Lee’s production of To Kill a Mockingbird. His initial stance in the 1950s had been described by his friend Mr. Shields to be that of “a Deep South Southerner [who] agreed with the status quo: birds of a feather flock together,