Setting of To Kill A Mockingbird

The diction of this passage suggests that this is an old rundown town and that is the location is insignificant to the conflict. The words that made me come to this conclusion were words like, tired old town, no hurry, and nowhere to go. This makes it seem that the people in this town are bored and have no purpose in life. The allusion in this passage is when she says that the citizens have been told that it had nothing to fear but fear itself. This alludes to what FDR said, when he tried to comfort the American people in a time of depression. This is used because the town of Maycomb relates to what the whole country was going through during the depression. I do not agree with the critics that Scout sounds too grown up. Throughout the novel it is expressed that she is a very intellectual girl because of the the teachings of her father. I think she tries hard to sound intellectual in an attempt to ack like her father.