Scout compares Mayella to Miss Maudie because she has one
row of red geraniums in their yard. These geraniums are taken care of very efficiently
by Mayella, so Scout compares the care these flowers receive to the town's best
gardener's care. That would be Miss Maudie Atkinson.
What
this shows about Mayella is the fact that she has the capacity to be a high-functioning
member of society. She is just bound by circumstances. Given the right opportunities,
Mayella could have been much more with great education and moral training. This is one
of Lee's greatest comments. What we do is learned behavior. Mayella has very little
choice on her circumstances and has conformed to that which her dad has created her to
be, not that she wants to be that.
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