During
Tom Robinson's trial in ,observes Mayella discussing her solitary life. The
woman lives alone with no friends or family to speak of and goes about a very isolated routine.
Mayella is also mixed race, and so she has a hard time identifying with members of either the
White community or the African-American one, which makes her life even more isolated and
secluded, which Scout reckons must be even more isolated than her neighbor, 's.
Tom comes around occasionally, showing compassion by helping her with chores and taking
care of things around the house. He is a gentle and kind man, but Mayella uses his visits as an
opportunity to take advantage of him and harm himeventually sending him to his death in jail.
While she is lonely and takes solace in the one person who visits her, she is still willing to
turn on him and frame him for a crime he didn't commit.
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