The scene ends with Scout despairing over her own long-standing refusal to see the truth.
"I hope the world will little note nor long remember what you are saying here." "It takes a lot of what I don't have to be a member of this wedding," she thinks, channeling another tomboy of Southern literature. In between a flood of overheard sentiments and uncomfortable debates about life in New York, Scout finds herself drawing from literature to explain her increasingly confused feelings. During this extended scene, the strongest section of "Go Set a Watchman," Scout's perception of Maycomb - and herself - dissolves entirely. She raised me, and she doesn't care," Scout reflects, stunned by the reversed polarity of their relationship and by the idea that Calpurnia's affection for her was just another commodity Atticus bought.Īfter that terrible visit, Scout has to go to a coffee her Aunt Augusta is throwing to reintroduce the younger woman to the friends of her school days.
"She sat there in front of me and she didn't see me, she saw white folks. When Scout goes to visit Calpurnia, hoping to reassure her that Atticus and Henry's defense of her grandson Frank will be successful, she's stunned by Calpurnia's despair and indifference, emotions she never showed to Scout before. Scout has thought she was being just and liberal instead, she has ignored the larger currents all around her. The fact that Scout, as her Uncle Jack suggests, has "never been prodded to look at people as a race, and now that race is the burning issue of the day, you're still unable to think racially," means that she has missed both the racism of other Maycomb residents and the pain of Calpurnia, the woman who raised her.
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