White people wouldn’t have anything to do with her because she lived among pigs; Negroes wouldn’t have anything to do with her because she was white. She couldn’t live like Mr. Dolphus Raymond, who preferred the company of Negroes, because she didn’t own a riverbank and she wasn’t from a fine old family. Nobody said, “That’s just their way,” about the Ewells. Maycomb gave them Christmas baskets, welfare money, and the back of its hand.
– Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird, Chapter 19. Scout is talking about Mayella Ewell and the kind of lonely and abandoned life she had as a young woman who was poor and lived with an abusive father.