Who is Mr. Wickson from The Iron Heel and what is their importance? The_Iron_Heel English & Literature Mr. Wickson | The Iron Heel

Wickson is a guest at the meeting of the Philomaths where Everhard confronts the local members of the Oligarchy. Wickson is the only one to rebut him effectively, and the only one whose rebuttal Everhard acknowledges. He reappears throughout the narrative as a beneficiary of the Oligarchy's influence and generosity, in other words, as one of the main antagonists of the Revolution, and, starting in chapter eighteen, is an unwitting host to Avis and Everhard, who take refuge in a secret cave in the backwoods of his property. His son stumbles upon the hiding place, is indoctrinated into the Revolution, and eventually becomes a revolutionary spy in his father's home, and thereby in the Oligarchy.