Atticus Finch In Harper Lee's Go Set A Watchman

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Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman gave readers the real insight to who Atticus Finch really was, he tells us that he was a segregationist, a bigot, a KKK supporter and most importantly a racist. He was not the civil rights hero as many readers suspect him to be. He did not volunteer to defend Tom Robinson and did not even want to get involved until the judge demanded him to represent Tom. Even then he still complained that "I 'd hoped to get through life without a case of this kind." His defense of Tom Robinson is very inadequate. He calls no witnesses on Tom 's behalf, he allowed damaging evidence to enter with no rebuttal, he doesn 't seek a change of venue for more neutral grounds, and he did not even prepare for the trial it was like this