Scout is spending the afternoon with Aunt Alexandra while
Jem is teaching Dill how to swim. Scout considers being with Aunt Alexandra being a
lady, so she spends the afternoon with the church ladies that have come over. Scout
helps Cal bring the dishes out, but Aunt Alexandra asks Scout to stay with them. Scout
listens as the ladies talk and gossip about the town. When Mrs. Merriweather starts
talking about how one must forgive and forget, Scout thinks at first she is talking
Mayella Ewell, but she soon finds out she is talking about Helen
Robinson.
Mrs. Merriweather turned back to her neighbor.
"There's one thing I truly believe, Gertrude," she continued, "but some people just
don't see it my way. If we just let them know we forgive 'em, that we've forgotten it,
then this whole thing'll blow
over."
Everyone thinks that
Mrs. Merriweather is a wonderful Christian woman, but in all reality she is a nasty
judgmental woman. What Mrs. Merriweather is saying is that the women should tell Helen
Robinson that the town forgives and forgets what Tom supposedly did. She is a
narrow-minded woman and someone needs to put her in her place, and Scout is just the
person to do it.
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