scout was 26 in go set a watchman.
scout was 26 in go set a watchman.
how old is scout in go set a watchman?
26
jean louise "scout" finch, now 26, returns from new york to her hometown, maycomb, alabama, for her annual fortnight-long visit to her father atticus, a lawyer and former state legislator. jack, his brother and retired doctor, is scout's mentor. their sister alexandria runs the house and took calpurnia's place when she retired. her brother jeremy "jem" finch has died of the heart condition which killed her mother. she is met by her childhood sweetheart henry "hank" clinton who works for atticus.
go set a watchman
"entertainment weekly" panned the book as "a first draft of "to kill a mockingbird"" and said, "though "watchman" has a few stunning passages, it reads, for the most part, like a sluggishly-paced first draft, replete with incongruities, bad dialogue, and underdeveloped characters". "ponderous and lurching", wrote william giraldi in "the new republic", "haltingly confected, the novel plods along in search of a plot, tranquilizes you with vast fallow patches, with deadening dead zones, with onslaughts of cliché and dialogue made of pamphleteering monologue or else eye-rolling chitchat". in "the new yorker", adam gopnik commented that the novel could be seen as "a string of clichés", although he went on to remark that "some of them are clichés only because, in the half century since lee's generation introduced them, they've "become" clichés; taken on their own terms, they remain quite touching and beautiful". maureen corrigan in npr books called the novel "kind of a mess". in "the spectator", philip hensher called "go set a watchman" "an interesting document and a pretty bad novel", as well as a "piece of confused juvenilia". ""go set a watchman" is not a horrible book, but it's not a very good one, either", judged the "fort worth star-telegram", citing among other flaws its "overly simplistic" plot.
go set a watchman