Character skech mayella ewell

Mayella had a tendency to ask for Tom’s help every time he walked by her house. Its true Mayella was beaten badly, the only problem was that the marks were those of a left handed person and Tom Robinson’s left hand was paralyzed. This story takes place around the 1950’S in Maycomb Alabama, when the act of a white woman kissing a black man was considered breaking the social code.

During the course of the book Mayella tries to kiss a black man named Tom Robinson. It was obvious that Mayella feared her father and would along with anything Bob Ewell would say. Mayella had the oupurinty to spare Tom Robinson’s life, but was too fearful of her father to actually do save Tom. Mayella had secretly been saving money for so she could send her siblings to go get ice cream one day. Mayella felt that Tom was some one who paid attention to her and she was attracted to him because of that. She’s also a lower class citizen, Mayella’s not an evil person but rather a slave to her fathers wishes, if she were able to make her decisions by herself she would probly be a more confident truthful person. But because of the time and place in this book Tom was found guilty mainly because a white woman had accused him. She’s starved for attention that was never received by her father. When asked by Atticus if her father ever abused her, she seamed the stutter and then say “my pa’s never laid a hand on me” when it was very apparent that her father both phycally and sexually abused her. ther example is when mayella was at her trial on the stand. That day she asked Tom to come up to the second floor and fix a door, while Tom was on the chair Mayella grabbed him legs and kissed him when her pa walked in, Tom ran as fast as he could for fear of Bob Ewell shooting him.