By his actions he taught me tolerance and respect and open-mindedness. He treated all people, regardless of race or social situation, equally well. He was as friendly with janitors and parking lot valets and waitresses as he was with the millionaire that owned the company he worked for. But he appeared to me as the kindest, most tolerant and benevolent man I knew. He was no lawyer and no champion of civil rights. Maybe I knew that because when I was the same age as Scout was during that trial, in my eyes my father was just like Atticus. But I also recognized the fact that as a character, as a human being, he was a fiction. Style and point of view aside I would expect that readers - people I hold in the highest esteem and who, because they are readers after all - would be among the first to understand the concepts of cognitive dissonance and character complexity.įrankly, I fell in love with the old Atticus Finch right along with everyone else. They seem to feel betrayed by the fact that the Atticus Finch they had so revered is shown to be a racist. Here are my Thursday morning thoughts:Īlthough GSaW was actually written before To Kill a Mockingbird most reviewers have spoken about it as a sequel since it deals with events that occur decades later. I've also read many, many reviews and commentaries. I pre-ordered Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee some time ago.
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