Character Analysis: Is Mayella Powerful?

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

in the walls….What passed for a fence was bits of tree-limbs, broomsticks and tool shafts …. Enclosed by this barricade was a dirty yard” (Lee, Chapter 17). Now, as the reader this doesn't make her powerful at all in behalf of her being poor and lives in very poor conditions. Now onto more reasons why Mayella is not powerful.
“‘He does tollable, ‘cept when-’” (Lee, Chapter 18). This doesn’t make her powerful because she is scared of what Bob Ewell will do to her if she tells or admits she gets beaten and sexually abused by Bob. as stated in this quote “ Mayella looked at her father, who was sitting with his chair tipped against the railing. He sat up straight and waited for her to answer” (Lee, Chapter 18). Bob gave her that look that put fear into Mayella and she just said “‘Except when nothin’.’” then she just ends it with “I said he does tollable.”. So surely this makes her have less power.
Perhaps the last two have not yet convinced you she is not powerful then this on surely will. As Tom is testifying about Mayella trying to speak with him Scout reflects “Mayella Ewell must have been the loneliest person in the world” (Lee,Chapter 19). Scout was not wrong because as she goes on to point out “white people wouldn’t have anything to do with her because she lived among pigs; Negroes [the Ewells’ nearest neighbors] wouldn’t have anything to do with her because she was white…”(Lee, Chapter 19). So Mayella goes through all of this just to end up where she started being poor, no one wants nothing to do with her, and no power in her possession.
Mayella is not powerful and as the reader gave you evidence to support it. The first paragraph told you how we would classify Mayella’s power which was class, race, and gender. The second paragraph gave readers information on where and how she lives, which is not good at all. Affecting Mayella was how she was beaten and sexually abused by Bob Ewell, which evidence is there to prove she is beaten and sexually abused in the third paragraph. Finally in the last paragraph Scout tells the reader how Mayella is left with nothing after the testimony. Now all this evidence tells the reader Mayella has no power over people or herself.