DID HARPER LEE
JUST
"SET US STRAIGHT?"
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Translations of “put/set someone straight”
› to make certain that someone knows the real facts about
a situation: “Don't worry, I set
him straight (on this matter).” Oxford Dictionary
It took two attempts to finally find the message in Harper Lee’s
second novel “Go Set a Watchman.” I was determined to hear what the writer was trying to say to the 2015 world that still idolizes Atticus Finch.
This was the topic of my weekly column that first appeared in The Lexington Dispatch.
"She finally shook off her fears of inferior writing and shared something as messy and as complicated as prejudice itself. The real hero of "To Kill a Mockingbird" was never supposed to be Atticus Finch, and Lee felt compelled (like a true Watchman) to reclaim her characters and set the record straight." AK
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