Discuss and describe the town of Maycomb in To Kill a Mockingbird. In what ways does the town and its people set the mood and tone for the novel?...

Maycomb, Alabama is described as being a "slow town," where the majority of
the inhabitants are old and there are no significant attractions. It is portrayed as a small
country town, and the community is predominately made up of conservative, traditional Southern
citizens, who are prejudiced against African Americans. In ,describes her hometown by
saying:

People moved slowly then. They ambled across the
square, shuffled in and out of the stores around it, took their time about everything. A day was
twenty-four hours long but seemed longer. There was no hurry, for there was nowhere...