![]() ![]() It also reflected modernist influences in its intermittent use of stream-of-consciousness narration, interior monologues, and perspective shifts. The draft of the novel showed considerable but inconsistent literary skill in its depiction of Maycomb's middle class milieu and mores, its characterizations, its humor, and its overall prose style. John Hall Finch, a retired physician and bibliophile and Calpurnia ("Cal"), the retired black woman who had reared her after Jean Louise's mother's early death. ![]() Among those Jean Louise encountered once back home were lifelong friend and suitor Henry "Hank" Clinton, her father's devoted mentee and law-firm heir apparent her snobbish aunt Alexandra "Aunty" Finch Hancock, who after being abandoned by her husband had moved in with Atticus her eccentric uncle, Dr. Board of Education ruling, the semi-autobiographical text explored its 26-year-old white protagonist Jean Louise "Scout" Finch's trip-from New York City-to visit her elderly father, distinguished attorney Atticus Finch, who was still living in her childhood hometown of semi-rural Maycomb, Alabama. Set chronologically not long after the US Supreme Court's 1954 Brown v. In 1957, Nelle Harper Lee, a young, unpublished Manhattan resident and native of Monroeville, Alabama, completed and submitted a draft manuscript of a novel to the J. ![]() ![]() Author Harper Lee and her novel 'Go Set a Watchman.' Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images. ![]()
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