![]() ![]() That’s just one of many points of divergence, or overlap, between the novels, which are related in a complicated way.Īccording to numerous accounts, “Go Set a Watchman” is the earliest version of the manuscript that became “To Kill a Mockingbird,” acquired by Lippincott in 1957 and subjected, under the guidance of editor Tay Hohoff, to what Smithsonian Magazine once called “a title-on-down revision.” For us readers, that means we can’t help but engage with “Go Set a Watchman” through a filter of comparison. Tom was memorably convicted in “To Kill a Mockingbird,” even with no evidence against him, whereas in “Go Set a Watchman,” Atticus “accomplished what was never before or afterward done in Maycomb County: He won acquittal for a colored boy on a rape charge.” It ended in a small shriveled hand.”Īnd yet, those two trials come to very different outcomes. ![]() Such a description recalls Tom Robinson, whose trial for a similar offense is at the center of “To Kill a Mockingbird.” “His left arm was fully twelve inches shorter than his right,” the author explains in that novel, “and hung dead at his side. ![]()
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