[ SECRET POST #3365 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3365 ⌋

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[skeletal_history]

Well, Lee originally envisioned Scout's father as one personality, and then by the time she wrote Mockingbird, the character of Scout's father had transformed into the personality of the Atticus Finch we know and love. That's it, that's what happened.

If people draw a throughline between the two characters, as though he were a real man with a real self which Watchman exposed in all its ugliness, and take this as a slap in the face, then...well, that's a misunderstanding of what a novel is and how it's crafted. It's more fruitful to investigate how and why Lee's characterization of Atticus changed from common bigot to icon of nobility and principle, than to get all het up thinking Atticus was not "actually" the man we were led to believe he was.

I'm not saying you're doing this -- this is just what I saw and heard happening often when the book came out.

[tree_and_leaf]

In fact, even if you know nothing about the circumstances of the two books' composition, you can tell that things have changed, because in "GSAW", Tom is acquitted. In fannish terms, they're AUs of each other.