"I need a watchman to lead me around and declare what he seeth every hour on the hour. I need a watchman to tell me this is what a man says but this is what he means, to draw a line down the middle and say here is this justice and there is that justice and make me understand the difference. I need a watchman to go forth and proclaim to them that all that twenty-six years is too long to play a joke on anybody, no matter how funny it is." 
 What a let down. 
 No, more than a let down. Harper Lee has (maybe unwillingly, there's a lot of controversy surrounding the publication of the book) destroyed the iconic, heroic, incredible man that was Atticus. I NAMED A SIM AFTER HIM! 
 Go Set a Watchman is told from Jean Louise's (Scout) point of view. Since the end of To Kill A Mockingbird, she's moved to New York. Go Set a Watchman starts with her visit to Maycomb. She's upset about the changes that have happened to her hometown since she's last been there, but nothing could have prepared her for the sight of Atticus and Henry Clinton (Hank, her boyfriend) at a citizen's council meeting. 
 "The only human being she had ever fully and wholeheartedly trusted had failed her; the only man she had ever known to whom she could point and say with expert knowledge, 'He is a gentleman, in his heart he is a gentleman,' had betrayed her, publicly, grossly, and shamelessly." 
 And of course, her family tries to justify it. 
 "'As I sit here and breathe, I never thought the good God would let me live to see someone walk into the middle of a revolution, pull a lugubrious face, and say, 'What's the matter?'" 
 I think this book was supposed to be about Jean Louise becoming her own person, separate from Atticus. But Atticus didn't need to be destroyed to accomplish that. To Kill a Mockingbird is a classic. Atticus stood up for what is right, no matter what. And despite the excellent writing in Go Set a Watchman, it ruined the amazing Atticus in my mind. 
 Interestingly enough, I noticed that Atticus is the number one boys' name for the first half of 2015. I wonder how long that'll last (although it is a great name, even if Atticus Finch has disappointed us all).