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This is not a novel, it is only an early draft. I can see why Harper Lee chose not publish it, and I question the motives of those who chose to publish this after Harper Lee entered a nursing home and both her attorney and her sister had died. It is important to remember in this prototype, Lee addressed racism by reaching for our hearts. In her first attempt (Go Set a Watchman), her prototype Atticus was a formerly good man who descended into bigotry, perhaps in response to both his crippling disease and the impact he perceived coming from the civil rights movement. His fall hurts the reader. But this was the first prototype of Atticus Finch. Fortunately, she rescued the character from the man he was in Watchman and reworked him into the man who inspired a generation of young men and women to become lawyers. Although in the chronolgy of the stories, Atticus goes from good to bad, in the chronology of the evolution of the story from Watchman to To Kill a Mockingbird, he goes from bad to good. Watchman is not a novel. It is a first, failed attempt. It should never have been published as anything else.