The Truth About Grace

Higginson illustrates how difficult it is to pinpoint the truth because people with different information and different perspectives have different ideas about discerning the truth. For instance, Looksmart tells Beauty that he and Patricia know the truth about what happened to Grace. Beauty tells him that he does not know the truth. In reality, Looksmart does not even know the truth about Grace’s feelings for him.

Patricia, for instance, has a very distorted idea of the truth about Grace’s death. She gets her perspective of what happened from Richard, who is trying to cover up the fact that he had been sleeping with Grace, and had set the dog loose on her because he wanted to get rid of the evidence of their affair, which was the child Grace was carrying. When Looksmart confronts Patricia with his perspective of what happened...