Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee Summary & Analysis

Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee | Summary & Analysis

 

 

Preview:

Jean Louise Finch tries to go home again and finds tiny Maycomb, Alabama grappling with the emerging civil rights movement in the mid-1950s. Set nearly twenty years after the events in To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee’s classic American novel, Go Set a Watchman looks at the earlier book’s beloved characters in a different and, sometimes shocking, light. Go Set a Watchman, however, was written first, and became the groundwork from which To Kill a Mockingbird was developed.  

At 26, Jean Louise, who managed to grow up color blind in the Deep South, has been living in New York City. She arrives home for her fifth annual two-week visit, eager to see her father, Atticus. She also plans to see her longtime suitor, Henry ‘Hank’ Clinton, her brother’s best friend and junior partner in Atticus’s law firm. She thinks she may be ready to settle down and give Atticus some grandchildren, but what she discovers undermines every assumption she has ever had…

 

PLEASE NOTE: This is a summary and analysis of the book and NOT the original book. 

 

Inside this Instaread Summary & Analysis of Go Set a Watchman

• Summary of book

• Introduction to the Important People in the book

• Analysis of the Themes and Author’s Style

 

 

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