True, a sequel, offered as a new work, may call attention to Lee’s old-fashioned if good-hearted ideas about racial harmony - especially if in the new book Atticus seems as naïve in the face of racial hatred as he does in the first. “It has been under attack for years by some serious critics for being simplistic and problematic in a privileged-white-lady- solves-the-race-issue kind of way," Jessa Crispin, a literary journalist, wrote in the New York Times. But after the initial excitement, “Go Set a Watchman" appears to be a dusted-off, preliminary version of “To Kill a Mockingbird" featuring the same main characters, only set 20 years later.Īnd at a time when the movie “Selma" has kindled a debate about the roles of whites and blacks in the civil rights movement - and their depiction on screen - Lee’s 1960 classic is facing fresh scrutiny as well. Many hoped the new book would be a departure or even a sequel. In the US, several generations of students have been raised on the moral fable of Atticus Finch, the widowed Southern lawyer, and his daughter, Scout, who together combat racial injustice in an Alabama town during the Great Depression.
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