To Kill a Mockingbird

What is ironic about Tom's kindness?

Chapter 17-19

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Tom's kindness is ironic because human kindness by a black man to a white woman is unacceptable and not permissable. In admitting to this type of compassion and that he felt sorry for her, Tom made a huge mistake.

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