There's a line in To Kill a Mockingbird that I have never quite got. At a white women's tea after the trial, when white Mrs. Meriwether complains of her black employee's attitude, Miss Maudie asks, "His food doesn't stick going down, does it?" I mean, I get what she's criticizing, of course--but the antecdent of "his"? why food--because Sophy is a cook?
When I brought that up, three other women said yes, that line has always troubled them too. Kal said her used copy is unmarked except a star next to that line, so someone else didn't get it either. So she investigated. She found a site that suggests it means that Mr. Meriwether can still bring himself to eat Sophy's cooking, but the site's author cited a suggestion she'd received that the line is not about Mr. Meriwether and Sophy but about Mrs. Meriwether's ability to eat Atticus's food in Atticus's house while denigrating Atticus's purpose and effort. That seems to make the most sense.
What I didn't bring up was grammar. Third paragraph: "Being Southerners, it was a source of shame to us...."