Significance Of Mayella In To Kill A Mockingbird

Mayella is powerful. Mayella is in a trial against a man named Tom Robinson and has an advantage. She is white, Mayella who is a white woman blamed Tom Robinson, who is a African American man for something she did. In court the jury won't believe Tom. At the time in Maycomb it was very segregated. Most people would believe a white man over a black man. This is how Mayella is powerful.She used her race against Tom in the trial because she knew the jury would never believe a black man over a white woman.