what does the author mean by: "there was no hurry, for there was nowhere to go, nothing to buy and no money to buy it with, nothing to see outside the boundaries of maycomb county." why did the people of maycomb have no money?

The full quote reads, "A day was twenty-four hours long but seemed longer. There was no hurry, for there was nowhere to go, nothing to buy and no money to buy it with, nothing to see outside the boundaries of Maycomb County."

This quotes describes Maycomb; a small town; a town stuck in time... nothing new, nothing needed, generations of the same families simply moving on day after day in the same way they'd moved on since the town's beginnings. Lee portrays Maycomb as if it's sleeping. The world around it is changing, and the community not only doesn't see the changes, for the majority, they simply don't care.

Source(s): To Kill a Mockingbird