To Kill A Mockingbird: Class Stucture Of Maycomb County

Part I of Essay
The rigid class structure and social stratification of Maycomb County had a profound effect on the events in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. The impact of this class structure was especially evident in the trial of Tom Robins on, a Maycomb Negro. The extre ....

Part II of Essay
.... primarily farmers who struggled to make ends meet. The Cunninghams, Dolphus Raymond, and the mysterious Radley family represented this group. The third class of Ma ycomb County were the " white trash". The Ewells, who lived at the dump, and relied on welfare for survival, were members of this group. It is important to note that the difference between the second and third class was not a financial one. Both w ere "poor". The difference, however, was in the way they interacted in society. The Cunninghams, unlike the Ewells, refuse ....