[BenLurkin]

she spurns a conventional marriage because the prospective husband doesn't live up to the idealism she acquired living in New York

Went to the big city and got turned into a lesbian.

[Sherman Logan]

He even defends the leader of a lynch mob because he's "basically a good man," who "just has his blind spots along with the rest of us."

They will try to understand the POV of a child rapist, an Islamic terrorist murderer, or race rioters (as long as they're black).

But white racists are deserving of nothing but condemnation and destruction.

And they can't even see the irony in their own position.

[tanknetter]

I wouldn’t go that far, but you are close.

The books, if taken together (thats a different debate) and in order of publication, first tell the story through the eyes of a child who idolizes her father, then through the eyes of an adult who is “mature” enough to set that idolization aside and see their parents for “who they really are.”

So it’s about children transcending their parents.

In a way, Atticus was built up in Mockingbird SO he could be torn down in Watchman.

Whether that was Lee’s intent or not given the order in which the books were written and publushed is yet another debate ...