To Kill a Mockingbird: which one is the correct sentence?
I am confused about a passage in "To Kill a Mockingbird", Atticus's closing speech:
“Which, gentlemen, we know is in itself a lie as black as Tom Robinson’s skin, a lie I do not have to point out to you. You know the truth, and the truth is this: some Negroes lie, some Negroes are immoral, some Negro men are not to be trusted around women—black or white. But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men. There is not a person in this courtroom who has never told a lie, who has never done an immoral thing, and there is no man living who has never looked upon a woman without desire.”
Should the last sentence be:
" ... and there is no man living who has never looked upon a woman without desire.”
OR
" ... and there is no man living who has never looked upon a woman with desire.”
I have two copies of "To Kill a Mockingbird" and one has the first line and the other has the second line.
I would like to know which one would make most sentence in this context. Which one is correct?
Top answer
which one would make most sense in this context.
- which one would make most sense in this context.
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I have so far not seen a copy that has "with," although I consider that the correct word. Some people argue that "without" is more poetic, but when I read it it startled me a little and interrupted the flow of the narrative. "With" is the only thing that works. To use "without" would require a major reconstruction of the sentence
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