How Atticus in To Kill A Mockingbird does not fit the stereotypes of the community.

Maycomb, a small town south of Alabama, is where this Pulitzer prize winning novel is set. In this essay, I will be looking at the characters in the novel who don't fit the stereotypes of the very stereotypical Maycomb County. The people and family's have various classes within the very much middle class community. This hierarchy is somewhat overcomplicated, and this constantly baffles the children. The fairly well-off Finches are near the top of Maycombs …

…his father, and how proud he his of him. Things eventually moved on from the case and Atticus had regained the respect that was in doubt before and during the case, this meant that Atticus now stood at the core of the community, as he was popular within the white folk, and respected within the black, again showing how he doesn't fit the stereotype but how he is such a prominent individual in the novel.