Mayella Ewell Characteristics

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In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, there sits a small sleepy old town in Maycomb, Alabama. Main character Mayella Ewell. Who has her characteristics made up of her class, race and gender. These three factors are to determine how she is as powerful as a hurricane, when it comes to accusing Tom Robinson in court for rape. In the 1930’s the Jim Crow laws were in effect. It has been know for the men to be protective to the women, Mayella being the race white, she had even more of an advantage since racism had still been