During the 1950’s, racism was considered a big deal especially in the southern states. Almost every white individual was against black people having the same rights as them. In the book “Go Set a Watchman” the author, Harper Lee, creates a character that demonstrates confusion as she comes back to her hometown of Maycomb Alabama. That character is a twenty six year old girl named Jean Louise. Throughout Go Set a Watchman, Jean Louise realizes that her childhood relationships have changed as the society around her has changed.
When Jean Louise returns back to Maycomb, the death of her brother, Jem, starts to take its toll on her. In her younger years, she looked up to Jem and saw him as her hero. In the book, Harper Lee creates a flashback
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The book shows that Jean Louise never goes back to apologize to Calpurnia. Instead, she forgets her (Lee 111). The society rubs off on Jean Louise toward the end of the book. White people never had anything to do with black people during this time. Jean Louise does not focus on forgiving Calpurnia because she does not care. Jean Louise says in To Kill a Mockingbird, “That Calpurnia led a modest double life never dawned on me. The idea that she had a separate existence outside our household was a novel one, to say nothing of her having command of two languages” (Lee 138). When Jean Louise is younger, she is not aware that white people do not like black people. As she returns from her job, she is more aware of how southern states operate. The article, “A Wrinkle in Maycomb County: Law, Equity, and Conscience in Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman” says that white people in that time do not want to change. They listen to the way things have always been (Crow 4). Jean Louise grows up thinking her father believes in equality and that is why she believes that. She treats Calpurnia the same way she treats anyone until she finds out about Atticus. She forgets about Calpurnia because she starts following the way the white people acted in the southern