Whenquestionsabout his role in the Tom Robinson trial, Atticus says the following to
her, showing that he is determined to offer Robinson the best defense he can, because it is the
right thing to do:
Simply because we were licked a hundred
years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win.
Atticus is clearly under pressure from Aunt Alexandra not to fight too hard for Tom
Robinsonpressure he deflects by saying the following, which Scout hears:
I walked home with Dill and returned in time to overhear Atticus
saying to Aunty, . . . in favor of Southern womanhood as much as anybody, but not for
preserving politeat the expense of human life, a pronouncement that made me suspect they had
been fussing again.
During his closing arguments,
Atticus shows his determination to do more than a mock defense of Tom Robinson by pointing out
the truth that whites and blacks share a common humanity. Whites can lie and blacks can tell the
truth, for all that the racist...
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