Go Set A Watchmen: Summary

Go Set a Watchmen by Harper Lee Starts off with Jean Louise Finch on her train hometown, Maycomb. She plans on staying with her family on vacation for two weeks. To her surprize she finds Henry Clinton, a previous love interest. Also Henry works for her father, Atticus, as an attorney.He became like a son to Atticus, but not a sister to Jean. He is under the belief that they will get married one day. Jean isn’t all the way on board with this. When jean gets home she sees her father struggling with day to day things because of his arthritis. Atticus’ sister Aunt Alexandra has moved in to help take care of him.Throughout the novel Henry continues to make passes at her. Jean has realized that nothing has changed since she went to New York for college.
She finds out both Atticus and Henry attend meetings on this. She attends and she is shocked by this meeting. Jean avoids Atticus and Henry for the rest of the day. Jean visits Calpernia, her black nanny from her childhood. She finds that the racial tensions in her home town of Macomb are worse than ever. When she goes home she confronts Henry about this. Henry doesn't see dilemma with this. Jean is sure she doesn't want to marry but still feels obligated to marry him. She continues on to confront Atticus who acts the same way as Henry and even mocks the NAACP. Jean is very upset by this because she saw Atticus as god and was shocked also because they usually had the same social and political views. Jean is outraged and begins to pack her bags. She goes to see her Uncle Jack and he slaps her for being so radical. Jean realizes how outrageous she is being for idolizing her dad and realizes that not everyone is