The novel starts with 26 year-old Jean Louise Finch (as known as "Scout"), with her arrival to the residential area of Maycomb, Alabama, from the big the Big Apple, or rather, New York, New York, on her return home. She is met by her childhood sweetheart and soon to be fiance, Henry Clinton (as known as “Hank”), who works for her father, Atticus Finch, who is a lawyer and former state legislator. Jack Finch, her father's brother, a retired doctor, who Jean has admired for years. Their sister, Aunt Alexandra, runs the house subsequent to Calpurnia's retirement as the family’s house maid. In Jean’s absence, the town is now filled with hustle and bustle that it seems oddly weird to her. After a trip away with Henry, on their way home they are passed by a car of African American men (which will be important later) that was travelling at a high speed. Not only did the speed come to a shock to Jean, but so did the fact that it was a group of African American men driving a car. Henry mentioned the fact that the black people in the county now have money for cars, but …show more content…
She expresses her disgust at seeing him and her father at the council meeting. Henry explains that sometimes people have to do things they don't want to do. She screams that she could never live with a hypocrite, only to notice that Atticus is standing behind them, smiling. But, this is not the end of her wrath, she then goes to speak with her father. During the discussion with his daughter, Atticus argues that the blacks of the South are not ready for full civil rights, and the Supreme Court's decision was unconstitutional and irresponsible. Although Jean Louise agrees that the South is not ready to be fully integrated, she says the court was pushed into a corner by the NAACP and had to act. She is confused and devastated by her father's positions as they are contrary to everything he has ever taught