This burst of exposition, as with other clumsy moments of plotting and sporadic jumps back in time, works only because the characters are already famous a romance between Jean Louise (Scout has embraced her legal name as an adult) and a newly introduced character, Henry Clinton, told in a third-person voice close to Jean Louise’s own thoughts, is less successful yet.īut the book’s most striking aspect-the revelation of Atticus Finch’s retrograde and, yes, frankly racist views of his black clients and neighbors-is powerful enough to subsume all the more dubious elements. Watchman is alienating from the very start: Readers will be dispirited from the first chapter, with the revelation that, in the years between Scout’s childhood and her return to Maycomb, Ala., at 26, her brother Jem has died and her father Atticus has grown infirm.
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