The Only Use of
Indian caste system
in
To Kill a Mockingbird
- There was indeed a caste system in Maycomb, but to my mind it worked this way: the older citizens, the present generation of people who had lived side by side for years and years, were utterly predictable to one another: they took for granted attitudes, character shadings, even gestures, as having been repeated in each generation and refined by time.
p. 175..2caste system = a system of social ranking
Definition:
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(Indian caste system) a system of social ranking -- especially an old hereditary system in India consisting of: Brahmins (priests, scholars and teachers), Kshatriya (warriors and rulers), Vaisya (traders and agriculturists), Sudra (manual workers), and Dalits (untouchables)