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erikdryden 's review for:
Go Set a Watchman
by Harper Lee
I've always thought that the great weakness in To Kill a Mockingbird is Atticus Finch. He is too good, too wise, too infallible. Of course, the novel was written from Scout's perspective, so one could argue that Lee portrayed Atticus the way she did because we were to see him through the eyes of Scout, an innocent girl free from disillusionment. Now that Go Set a Watchman, which is an adaptation of an earlier draft of To Kill a Mockingbird, stars an adult Scout, we see her losing her faith in her father after he is shown to harbor racist beliefs. The weaknesses in this novel are an overabundance of anecdotes, the fact that a wise Atticus still has to be replaced by a wise Uncle Jack after Jean Louise's disenchantment, the lack of a coherent plot structure, the suddenness with which Scout reverses course at the end, Jean Louise's general ignorance, etc. The characters are no more than stick figures.