It is true that Mrs. Merriweather complained about her cooks and field hands. Her racism is one of the things her complaints are meant to convey.
Mrs. Merriweather said that the cooks and the field hands were dissatisfied and that they all grumbled the next day after the trial.
The cooks and the field hands are grumpy that the trial ended the way that it did.
The cooks and the field hands are grumpy that the trial ended the way that it did.
Mrs Merriweather is part of the missionary circle, a group of Christian ladies in Maycomb dedicated to helping people in poorer countries. However she complains and is scornful about her black servants which do most of her work in gardening, housekeeping etc. with little pay and also live a poor life like the people the missionary circle is supposed to help. Through this and many other examples in Chapter 22 in 'To Kill a Mockingbird' she is revealed to be a very religious, hypocritical and racist woman.
Miss Maudie is completely fed up with Mrs. Merriweather's hypocrisy. Mrs. Merriweather takes great pride in being considered "the most devout lady in Maycomb". At the missionary circle meeting she has just finished lamenting the plight of the Mrunas in Africa, yet, in the same breath, she speaks of the "darkies" who live her own community, and serve in her own house, with callousness and disparagement. She believes that Negroes, the "cooks and field hands", should know their place, and says that "there is nothing more distracting than a sulky darky". When Mrs. Merriweather makes a snide reference to Atticus' defense of Tom Robinson, self-righteously concluding that "all (he) did was stir 'em up", and complains about Sophie, her cook, declaring that the only reason she keeps her on is because "she needs her dollar and a quarter a week", Miss Maudie has had enough. She points out that the Merriweathers have no trouble eating the food Sophie prepares for them, sharply retorting that Mr. Merriweather's "food doesn't stick going down, does it?"
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cooks were very immportan to society they cooked our food but that's the point most of these cooks didnt wash there hands spreading diseases beyond belief
field hands :D
field hands!(:
With their hands. No, not even with their hands, they lick it from their plates. I mean, from the ground. Yes, a Dutch person cooks food, they throw it on the ground and lick it up. Like a pet. With fork and spoon, you moron.
nimium = too muchmanibus = by the use of hands, with hands, by hands, by means of handsSince nimium is an adverb, the verb here is understood rather than expressed: by using too many hands. The idea is the same as the English phrase "too many cooks spoil the broth".
False - they were used as domestic servants not field hands. The massive use of African slaves as field hands was in the Carribean and Brazil (as well as the southern United States to a lesser extent).