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Four Social Classes of Maycomb County

Four Social Classes of Maycomb County

In Harper Lee’s book To Kill a Mockingbird there are four evident social classes in Maycomb County. They are the professional white class citizens, poor honest white citizens, poor dishonest, outcast white citizens and black citizens. The professional white class own property and have jobs that provide income or money that came from their families. Members of this class are Atticus, an attorney, and his contemporaries Miss Maudie, the daughter of Dr. Frank Buford, Miss Stephaine, the town do-gooder and gossip, and the Radleys even though Mr. Radley had spent all of his wife’s money and had no visible means of support. The poor honest white citizens are hard working, good-hearted farmers that refuse charity. Members of this class are Little Chuck Little who consoles Miss Caroline when she cries, and the Cunninghams who are low on cash but will repay their debts with livestock and produce from their farm. The poor dishonest outcast white citizens consist of one family the Ewells. They wear dirty clothes, grow no food, don’t work and hunt with the sheriff’s permission out of season. The final class is the black citizens, some of which are honorable and hard working yet seen by all the others social classes as being beneath even the poor dishonest white citizens. Calpurnia, the finches housekeeper who is considered one of the family, Jessie, Mrs. Dubose’s dependable maid and companion, and Tom Robinson, an honorable man accused of a crime. The professional white class citizens, poor honest white citizens, poor dishonest, outcast white citizens and the black citizens are the four social classes in Maycomb County.

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