A Lesson before Dying | Grant Wiggins
Grant Wiggins, the teacher, grew up on the Pichot plantation. Tante Lou, Grant’s aunt and the plantation’s washerwoman, raised him. Even though Tante Lou earned a living in the plantation’s main house, she did not want Grant to have to enter the house ever again through the back door, the servant’s entrance. Thus, she sacrificed to send him to the university to become a teacher, a respected member of society.
At the opening of the story, Grant has taught at the plantation school for six years. The school has not changed much since he left it ten years earlier, nor have...
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