To Kill A Mockingbird Atticus Dress Analysis

Through Jem’s refusal to leave the jail and Scout’s ability to appeal to the humanity of Mr. Cunningham, the mob ceases to be a mob and becomes a collection of ordinary men. As the mob approach’s Atticus and the jail Atticus instructs the men to lower their voices because Tom Robinson was sleeping. It must have been through respect of Atticus that the men followed Atticus’s order. Though coming to kill a man they mustered the respect to speak quietly as not to wake that very same man. This shows that they have immense respect for Atticus. The way that they are dress also indicate their current state of mind. A group of men in “denim shirts buttoned up to the collar” (173) and that have “hats pulled firmly down over their ears” on a midsummer