Atticus Finch's Landing In To Kill A Mockingbird

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The novel is set in the “tired old town” of Maycomb, Alabama (Lee 6). The fictitious town grew inward and was “an island in a patchwork sea of cottonfields and timberlands” (Lee 174). When it rained, the streets became red slop, grass grew on the sidewalk, and the courthouse subsided in the town square (Lee 6). Stores encompassed the courthouse square, and large Chilean pines abounded every corner of it. (Lee 200). Maycomb was an ancient town that was twenty miles east of Finch’s Landing (Lee 173). Finch’s Landing was composed of three hundred and sixty-six steps down a steep headland and ending in a landing stage. Farther down the headland, there were remains of an old cotton landing. A two-rut road ran from the riverside, and there was a