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Q1. ‘Have you come back?’ said the woman. ‘I thought that no one had come back.’ Does this statement give some clue about the story? If yes, what is it?
Answer: Yes, the statement gives us several clues about the story ‘I thought that no one had come back’ suggests that the family had perished in war. This prepares the reader for the background of war. The return of the narrator is not pleasant to the speaker as she showed no sign of recognition. The war was just over and she had not expected the narrator to return. She had recognized the girl (narrator) otherwise why should she say, “Have you come back?” Besides, the reader gets a clue that narrator and her mother left the town during the war.
Q2. The story is divided into pre-War and post-War times. What hardships do you think the girl underwent during these times?
Answer: The girl suffered severely. She was severed from every precious household things, house, even her relations during the period. The story tells clearly, earlier she was a happy soul but during post-war period, she was a lost soul living in a rented room in very miserable condition.
Q3. Why did the narrator of the story want to forget the address?
Answer: The narrator went to 46, Marconi Street to meet Mrs. Dorling as she remembered that her mother handed over all the valuable possessions to her before leaving her hometown during the war. Though there was no written agreement made, she assured that she would keep those things in her safe custody.
When the narrator introduced herself to Mrs. Dorling, she refused to recognise her. She didn’t want to receive the narrator and return the belongings of her dead mother to her. During her second visit, the narrator couldn’t meet Mrs. Dorling as she was not at home. When her daughter opened the door of the house for her she found how the belongings of her mother were kept in a strange manner. They had lost all their emotional value for the narrator. Moreover, as the narrator lived in a small rented house she had no place to keep all those things. Because of all these reasons she wanted to forget that address.
Q4. ‘The Address’ is a story of human predicament that follows war. Comment.
Answer: The phenomenon of war brings lot of suffering for human beings. It brings with it death and destruction. It kills the feelings of love and sympathy. The story Address is based on this theme. The narrator’s mother leaves all her valuable things with an acquintance during the war.
The mother dies and many years later, the narrator comes to the woman to have a look at her mother’s belongings. But the woman shows no human feelings towards her. Rather, she behaves in a very hard hearted manner. She doesnot even let the narrator come in and sit a while. She closes the door. Thus, we find that war leaves the world desolate not only on the physical level but also on the emotional and spiritual level.
Extra Questions of The Adderss
Q1. What is the narrator’s final resolution?
Answer: The narrator after paying a visit at Number 46, in Marconi Street, resolved to forget the address. She didn’t want to keep the memory of the things also which reminded
her of her loss. It marks a note of optimism in narrator’s attitude. She has decided to start afresh.
Q2. Why did the girl try to forget Mrs Dorling’s address?
Answer: When the girl arrived at Mrs Dorlings the second time, she saw all her mother’s belongings, from plates, pots and cups to spoons, knives and the burnt tablecloth. She could recognize all these items, but she could not see these valuables arranged in a tasteless manner. The strange surroundings in which these items were arranged had made the girl disinterested in them. She had lost all connection and hence decided to forget the address and move on.
Q3. What impression do you form of the girl of the woman with broad back?
Answer: The girl is about 15 years old. She seems to be a simpleton fellow. She let the narrator inside the house, though a stranger to her. She showed her the collection of her mother’s valuable articles. She offered the narrator a cup of tea also.
Q4. Where was the narrator’s mother going?
Answer: The story is set in Holland during the World War period that had wreaked havoc all over the world. Holland during the World War was not a safe place for the Jews. The narrator’s mother was a Jew, so her family was unsafe in the place. The narrator’s mother decided to flee from the place to save her family from the War. She gave all her precious belongings to Mrs. Dorling to keep them safe.
Q5. Why did the old possessions of the narrator lose their value?
Answer: After war, when the life returned to normalcy, the narrator decided to see her old possessions at Number 46, in Marconi Street. But as he reached there the things lost their , value firstly because they were arranged in a tasteless way. Secondly and more importantly, the things had an association with the relations which no more existed. So the narrator better felt it right to leave them behind.
Q6. Why do you think Mrs Dorling gave a negative response to the narrator?
Answer: In Chapter 2 of Class 11 English, Mrs Dorling had taken all precious things that the narrator’s mother possessed as the mother was fleeing to a safer place during the war. Mrs Dorling assured the narrator’s mother that she would keep her valuables safely. After the war, when the narrator returned to Mrs Dorling, she acted as if she was unable to recognize the narrator. She negatively responded to the narrator because she might have thought that the narrator was back to take all that valuables back.
Q7. To what extent did the life assume its normal self after the war for the narrator?
Answer: Life returned to its normal self after the war gradually for the narrator also but only upto the extent that the bread became lighter in colour. Now she could sleep unthreatened. But the loss of relations and possessions made her feel about them.
Q8. How does the narrator realise that she has rung the right bell?
Answer: The woman occupant of the house was wearing the green knitted cardigan of narrator’s mother though the wooden buttons had become pale from washing. When she realised that the narrator was looking at her cardigan, she became conscious and half hid herself behind the door. Then the narrator knew that she had rung the right bell.
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