Mayella Ewell is an engaging character in the book, To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee. She, like many others, has some good and some bad qualities about her. She is also a very pathetic character. She is a great importance to this story.
             The Ewell family is a disgrace to Maycomb. The eldest child of the Ewell's is Mayella. Unlike the other children, Mayella tries to keep clean; well as clean as a Ewell can get. She also cares for brilliant red geraniums, which are probably the nicest looking things on the Ewell property. These good qualities of Mayella Ewell imply that she strives to fit in with society more than any other Ewell.
             Mayella, although semi-detached from her family, she has the characteristics of a Ewell. She lies under the oath of court. She wrongly accused Tom Robinson of sexual and physical assault against her, when in fact her own father was responsible of wrongdoing. Another bad quality of Meyella is her weakness. She was too frail mentally and emotionally to fight against her father. She even tried to convince herself that her father never beat her when she knew it was wrong. Instead she put a descent and innocent black man to death.
             Most of all, Mayella is a pathetic character. When on trial Atticus would call her Miss Mayella and Ma'am and Mayella took these as insults. She had no idea this was atticus' was of being polite. She also had no friends besides her own family and the closest person she had to a friend was Tom Robinson. It is very pathetic Mayella chose to falsely accuse a crippled Negro of rape. Mayella just couldn't live up to the fact that she kissed a negro so she was trying to "destroy the evidence", which was Tom Robinson himself. In conclusion the Tom Robinson trial was just a case of a black man's word against a white man's. Circumstantial evidence was used against an innocent black man for his life.
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