Nick Lauzon

Mrs. Tallardy

English 121

23 October 2017

To kill a Mockingbird takes place nearly 20 years before Go set a Watchman. A clear

difference in personality, maturity and behavior is displayed through Harper Lees diction.

Throughout the first chapter of Go set a Watchman the narrator never refers to Jean Louis Finch

as Scout, her nickname as a little girl in To kill a Mockingbird. Jean, now 26 lives on her own

and has her own life in New York, far away from here little old town of Maycomb. She is no

longer the trouble making tomboy, therefore she gets called by her name and not her nickname

from when she was very young. In addition to Jeans childhood, Harper Lee did not refer back to

anything that took place in Jeans past. In the novel Go set a Watchman when Jean returns home

from New York and gets off the train her and Jems childhood friend Henry Clinton. This would

have been a time where an explanation of when they meet or how they meet earlier in their life

would have been suitable. However, the older narrator chooses to keep the story in the present

time and not the past. Possibly because Jean wants to forget about a lot of her memories due to

the fact that she moved away from her home and her family. Finally, Jeans personality slightly

changed over the years. In To Kill a MockingBird Jean carys herself as a tomboy and does not

care about being feminine. Surprisingly, the narrator in Go set a Watchman narrates, she had

turned from an overalled, fractious, gun-slinging creature into a reasonable

facsimile of a human being (Lee 36). Throughout To Kill a Mockingbird, it never seemed like

Scout would become a more feminine young lady.