Who is Jack Lawton from Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch and what is their importance? Big_Sur_and_the_Oranges_of_Hieronymus_Bosch English & Literature Jack Lawton | Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch

Jack is a boyhood friend of Henry Miller in the new Brooklyn, NY, neighborhood or the "street of early sorrows" (Part 2, Chapter 5, pg. 116), Lawton is a sophisticated youngster and introduces Miller to the facts of life, including the foibles of adults. Lawton's English mother always looks at him lovingly, unlike many friends' mothers.