Link Deas is Tom Robinson's boss in Harper Lee's
To Kill A Mockingbird. Deas, recognizing how unfairly Tom is being
treated, yells out during the trial that Tom has worked for him for eight years and
proclaims that he hasn't had a "speck o' trouble" out of
him.
Deas's outburst further reinforces the idea that Tom
is a good, hard-working man and that he isn't the type of person the Ewells are
attempting to make him out to be. Despite all the evidence that should have exonerated
Tom, and despite the fact that the Bob Ewell is an alcoholic who has proven to
be incapable of taking care of his family, Tom is still convicted of
rape.
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