Ashley’s Reviews > To Kill a Mockingbird > Status Update

"As Tom Robinson gave his testimony, it came to me that Mayella Ewell must have been the loneliest person in the world. She was even lonelier than Boo Radley, who had not been out of the house in twenty-five years. When Atticus asked had she any friends, she seemed not to know what he meant, then she thought he was making fun of her."

"But sometimes the bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hand of--oh you're father...There are just some kind of men who--who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results" (45).