The slap must’ve been from a left-handed person. The reason why is because a left-handed person would obviously be more likely to leave a bruise on the right side of a person’s face, if slapped hard enough. We clearly know that Bob Ewell is a left-handed person because when Atticus asked him to write on a sheet of paper, Bob wrote with his left hand. Tom Robinson couldn’t have been the person who slapped Mayella because he had his left hand broken by a cotton gin when he was a younger boy. SO ask yourself this: Who would slap a person right their right hand and a bruise would appear on the right side of that person’s face. The second thing that could’ve happened was that Mayella could’ve put up a better fight. Now I’m not saying to hit the