In my opinion, the Ewell family would have been majorly
disgraced if the truth had come out about what happened between Mayella and Tom
(assuming that what Tom said was the truth). Although the Ewells are already pretty far
down the social ladder, this would make things worse for
them.
If what Tom said was true, Mayella willingly came on
(to some degree) to a black man. This would have made her a total outcast. No white
man would ever want to marry her after that and people would look down even more on her
family because they would think the Ewells were so low that they would allow their
daughter to have contact with a black man.
So Bob Ewell
really had a pretty strong reason to try to keep the truth from coming
out.
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