What do you know,and what can you conclude about Mr.Pigman?

Mr Pignati is the eponymously nicknamed protagonist of the novel. He is a widow and misses his wife, Conchita, whom he adored. The two shared a collection of ceramic pigs that began when he gave her a ceramic pig as a gift early on in their relationship so that she would remember his name. He is lonely now that his wife has died. The collection represents Conchita in a way and he likes to look at each of the pigs every day so that he can remember the occasion of each one being collected.

Overly trusting, Mr Pignati assumes everyone is as nice and as trustworthy as he is which is why he invites two virtual strangers, in John and Lorraine, into his home and his life. He enjoys their company because they give him the opportunity to be young again. He spends quite a bit of money on the kids but it is his personality that ends up being what they like the most about him.