Character Analysis: Is Mayella Powerful?

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Is Mayella Powerful? Mayella is not powerful, as the reader Mayella is going to be classified how much power she has by class, race, and gender. Class refers to a person’s income and education, but most of the time is how much money someone has or earns. Race refers to how people are categorized based on physical differences mostly people think of skin color. Gender in this case goes far more than the differences of male and female. Gender refers to roles and what society expects from men and women. Here is evidence to support Mayella is not powerful. Mayella lives in Maycomb, Alabama, in the 1930s. According to the DBQ “Maycomb’s Ewells lived behind the town garbage dump in what was once a Negro cabin…. Its windows were merely open spaces

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