How does Go Set a Watchman continue Scout Finch’s story after To Kill a Mockingbird?

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Book cover for To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, featuring a silhouette of a child under a tree and a large moon, with the title in script and — To Kill a Mockingbird This book cover is one of many given to Harper Lee's classic work *To Kill a Mockingbird* (1960). The novel won a Pulitzer Prize in 1961 and the next year was made into an Academy Award-winning film.

Although Go Set a Watchman was written before To Kill a Mockingbird, it is set 20 years after the events of the latter and functions as a sequel to Scout Finch’s story.12

In the novel, Jean Louise ("Scout") Finch is a grown woman living in New York City who returns to her childhood home in Alabama to visit her aging father, Atticus Finch. The narrative centers on a profound disillusionment for Scout; she discovers that her father, whom she remembered as a kindly and noble figure, holds ardent segregationist and racist views. Scout is forced to reconcile these harsh realities with the loving father of her childhood memories, a conflict that serves as the core of the story.123