Alexandra’s prohibition makes Jean Louise more interested in marrying Hank than she has ever been. The four of them make small talk, briefly discussing politics and recent court rulings undoing racial segregation in the South.Īfter Hank and Atticus leave for work, Alexandra tells Jean Louise that Hank would not be a suitable husband because he is of a lower social status. They return home, where Jean Louise sees her father, Atticus, and her aunt Alexandra. Jean Louise refuses but agrees to go on a date with him.
At the train station, she is met by Hank, who has always loved her and asks her to marry him on their drive home. Jean Louise travels by train from New York City to her childhood home of Maycomb, Alabama. Hank cleverly managed to keep both himself and Jean Louise from getting into trouble. The next day, the high school principal was furious after finding the falsies hanging from a school billboard and threatened to punish the owner. Hank noticed and took her outside, where he threw the offending “falsies” into the darkness. She wore a pair of false breasts underneath her dress that slipped out of place while she was dancing. Hank proved to be a hero once again when Jean Louise attended her first high school dance. After this, Calpurnia gave her the sex education she never got from her mother. After a boy kissed her against her will, she thought she was pregnant and tried to commit suicide, but Hank rescued her. Because she didn’t have a mother and never received a systematic sex education, she was misled by one of the girls at her school into thinking that kissing causes pregnancy. When Jean Louise reached puberty, she found herself needing to rely on someone other than Atticus for the first time. During this childhood, Atticus defended a black man accused of rape in a high-profile trial. As a young girl, Jean Louise spent most of her time playing games of make believe with her brother, Jem, and their friend Dill.
Jean Louise’s mother died when Jean Louise was 2 years old, and her father, Atticus, and her family’s black cook, Calpurnia, raised her. Go Set a Watchman covers four primary periods in the life of Jean Louise Finch:Īlthough Go Set a Watchman is set when Jean Louise is 26 years old, her flashbacks to childhood make up a significant portion of the novel.
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