Throughout the novel, Harper Lee shows many characters that do not accept the "traditional" values of their society. Many people do not conform to what society thinks is normal. In the novel, to kill a mockingbird, there are several instances in which Lee shows this.
             The most obvious example of such a character is Dolphus Raymond. He didn't conform to the "normal" society because he preferred colored women to white women. He was a pretend drunk who cared around a bottle in a brown paper bag to make it seem like he was a drink and a drunk but in fact all that was in the bottle of coca-cola. He was engaged to a white woman who killed herself because she found out that he was cheating on him with a colored woman. He was somewhat of a role model to the people because he believes that equality could occur amongst the whites and colored. Although this was true he was also ashamed of the fact that he was with a colored woman and hid it with supposedly being drunk all the time. Many people didn't second think his relationship with this woman because of it. He benefited from this difference because he got to be with the woman he choose to be with but in reality if he didn't cover of his feelings the way he did he'd probably be degraded by the people of Maycomb. On page 200 he describes exactly his manipulation on the town. He says, "I try to give them reason, you see. It helps folks if they can latch onto a reason. When I come to town, which is seldom, if I weave a little and drink out of this sack, folks can say Dolphus Raymond's in the clutches of whiskey, that's why he won't change his ways. He can't help himself."
             Another character that feels the same way as Dolphus is Atticus. He realizes that by taking on this case with Tom Robinson that he will be cursed out and degraded throughout town but he feels that helping the colored whether it is drastically or just a little, that it is worth it. He knows he will most likely lose...