Didn’t Atticus prove that Mayella Ewing was beaten by her father and that her bruises didn’t result from any encounter with Tom Robinson?
Yes but according to the Jezebel Feminists being spoofed in the article Atticus should not even be allowed to cross-examine the accuser. We should just believe she was raped end of story.
Indeed. Mayella’s bruises were from somebody who led with his left and her father is left handed. Additionally, she had strangulation marks all around her neck. Tom Robinson’s left arm was shriveled and dead due to a cotton gin accident in his youth; therefore, he physically could not have caused to marks. In his testimony, Robinson states that Mayella tried to kiss him and he rejected her and that’s when her dad walked in. Bob Ewell beat his daughter for kissing a black man. Robinson testified that Mayella wanted to kiss a man and told him “what her pa do to her don’t count.” Since Ewell is an abusive, perpetually unemployed drunk whose kids’ only meals are those “gleaned” from the town dump beside which they reside, I’ve always interpreted this as Ewell has raped his daughter.