The Lesson | Themes
Poverty and Wealth
The children in ‘‘The Lesson’’ all come from poor families. They live in apartment buildings where drunks live in the hallways that reek of urine; they live in what Miss Moore terms the "slums." The children's families, however, exhibit somewhat varying degrees of monetary security. Mercedes, for instance, has a desk at home with a box of stationery on it—gifts from her godmother—while Flyboy claims he does not even have a home.
The children, however, surely understand the value of money, and they easily comprehend that the amount of...
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