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To Kill A Mockingbird Miss Gates Character Analysis

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Miss Gates is being hypocritical because she says that America is better than Germany because we Americans not have prejudice, when in fact the town is prejudiced against African Americans. Scout remembers a conversation she had overheard outside the courthouse between Miss Gates and Miss Stephanie Crawford. Miss Gates told Miss Stephanie that "it 's time somebody taught 'em a lesson... the next thing they think they can do is marry us." Miss Gates is talking about Maycomb 's Negroes, and Scout wonders how someone can defend a group of people thousands of miles away but feel such hate for people living in her own

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