Hareper Lee and the fate of Atticus Finch

A solemn and gracious testimonial is due to Harper Lee whose writing has touched the hearts, souls and minds of young learners for more than fifty years in the classrooms of America and the world.  Could there be any greater gift to give and to receive from someone in this short life.  Of course there is To Kill A Mockingbird.  But, there is Go set a Watchman.  An Atticus Finch and his reputation are held in the balance.  Or is there more to this secret.  Harper Lee refused interviews constantly.  She moved to New York to edit Mockingbird, and only rarely came back to her home town.  She developed a friendship with Truman Capote if that is possible.  They were both from the South.  They were both homosexual.  No chastisement.  Only interest in the secret.  As one reads Mockingbird, there is a young woman raped, raped by her father, the fear of children and then there is the noble story of Scout and Atticus Finch...and of course, Boo. 

But could that juxtaposition of stories found in Mockingbird be the real story of Harper Lee's dual life?  Could it possibly be true that she was always writing of her Dad in reverse of the stories in Mockingbird, and the real Atticus Finch had molested her?  Is that also why, near the end of her own life that she published Watchman to take of the "moral" shine from Atticus' reputation as a noble do-gooder and civil rights supporter.  So many things run together and parallel in the life of Harper Lee.  Many different geometric angles to study.  That is why her books are so interesting to study.  But maybe she wanted those secrets to remain and she left us yesterday.