Perhaps I’ve lost my idealism, but I’m not nearly as crestfallen as everyone else seems to be about the recent revelations concerning Atticus Finch, the heroic lawyer in Harper Lee’s classic “To Kill a Mockingbird.” In that book, Atticus is the moral center, the wise father and the brave soul who defends a black man falsely accused of raping a white woman in an Alabama town in the 1930s.
In the just-released “Go Set a Watchman” (written before “To Kill a Mockingbird,” but published 55 years afterward), Finch is revealed as something quite different: a racist. Set in the 1950s, Watchman’s Atticus is now in his 70s and he decries integration.
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