“[Mayella] was as sad, I thought, as what Jem called a mixed child: white people wouldn’t have any to do with her because she lived among pigs; Negroes wouldn’t have anything to do with her because she was white.” pg 256 chapter 18
This quote shows poverty and discrimination. Mayella lived in poverty “among” pigs so the white people would not be nice to her or hang around her because of that. She was isolated from the white community because of how she lived
Mayella was white, so the black people would not have anything to do with her. Even though she was isolated from the white community because she was poor the black community would not accept her because she was white. Mayella lived an isolated live, by herself.
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