What does Scout mean when she tells us that the yard around the Ewells’ cabin looks “like the playhouse of an insane child”? What details does she provide to further explain this phrase? How is the corner of the yard that Mayella takes care of different

The Ewell's live beside the garbage dump. Their yard looks no different than the dump beside them. The yard represents the chaos and decay of the Ewell family. Scout describes it below:

"the remains of a Model-T Ford (on blocks), a discarded dentist’s chair, an ancient icebox, plus lesser items: old shoes, worn-out table radios, picture frames, and fruit jars, under which scrawny orange chickens pecked hopefully. . .One corner of the yard, though, bewildered Maycomb. Against the fence, in a line, were six chipped-enamel slop jars holding brilliant red geraniums, cared for as tenderly as if they belonged to Miss Maudie Atkinson, had Miss Maudie deigned to permit a geranium on her premises. People said they were Mayella Ewell’s."