Who is Jerry from Stories and what is their importance? Stories_(Lessing) English & Literature Jerry | Stories

Jerry appears in the story, Through the Tunnel. He is eleven-years-old when he and his mother visit the seaside, and he is struggling to come to terms with his emerging maturity. Over the course of the story, Jerry comes to realize that a tunnel through some rocks is symbolic of his emerging maturity and makes accomplishing the feat the focus of his time there.