Mayella, Ruby, and Victoria are all very similar in the way their trials went. “Evil rarely comes in the form of monsters, but rather in the form of relatively normal people who, for reasons of careers, ideology, or a desire for society’s approval, are indifferent to the human consequences of their actions.” their similarities they have in common are from the outcome of how society affected them both fictionally in the book and non-fictionally in the real world. Ruby Bates and Mayella Ewells have many similarities in their home life and how they are as people. Ruby and Mayella both live in a negro town and are both the only white households in the neighborhood. Both of the girls have siblings in a crowded house, Ruby’s father is gone and comes around from time to time to see her and her siblings where Mayella’s father is always there and harasses her. Another similarity between Ruby and Mayella is that they both falsely accused black men of committing a crime, and given …show more content…
The boys and girls in “To Kill a Mockingbird” see Mayella very different, seeing that they know for a fact that Tom Robinson couldn’t have done any of the afflicted crimes. They know where he was and what he was doing and the exact story and know exactly how Mayella changed it, they have hard evidence that would be an easy trial in today’s society. Since Mayella was white there was no question in what the outcome was going to be. Some of the society saw the women as victims strongly because a crime was placed on a black man and since a white person said it happened they believed it, but others who knew what happened or listened to the case and didn’t care about race would see them all as accusers and horrible, awful people. These stories are similar because one is based off the other, society didn’t change in either of the stories because the people always believed the white women which was a sad but true accusation about