A Lesson Before Dying: Mr. Wiggins
Ryan Strassburger
In A Lesson Before Dying, Mr. Grant Wiggins' life crises were the center
of the story. Although he was supposed to make Jefferson into a man, he himself
became more of one as a result. Not to say that Jefferson was not in any way
transformed from the "hog" he was into an actual man, but I believe this story
was really written about Mr. Wiggins.
Mr. Wiggins improved as a person greatly in this book, and that helped
his relationships with other people for the most part. At the start of the
book, he more or less hated Jefferson, but after a while he became his friend
and probably the only person Jefferson felt he could trust. The turning point
in their relationship was the one visit in which Jefferson told Mr. Wiggins that
he wanted a gallon of ice cream, and that he never had enough ice cream in his
whole life. At that point Jefferson confided something in Mr. Wiggins,
something that I didn't see Jefferson......
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