The Address

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THE ADDRESS
1. Comment on the title of Marga’s story The Address.

Ans. The story has aptly been given the title, ‘The Address’. In fact, the
entire story moves around Mrs Dorling’s address, Number 46, Marconi
Street. She had taken away all the valuables from the narrator’s
mother. The narrator went to that address twice after the war. But she
had a bitter experience. She finally resolved to forget that address.
2. What makes the narrator to Mrs Dorling’s house twice? What was
her experience there?
Ans. Mrs Dorling had taken away all the valuables of her mother for
safe-keeping. The narrator wanted to see and touch those things once.
In the first visit to Marconi Street, Mrs Dorling refused to recognise
her. In the second visit, it was Mrs Dorling’s daughter who opened the
door. But this time the sight of her ill-arranged things distressed her.
3. How did the narrator and Mrs Dorling recognise each other?
Ans. The narrator knocked at Mrs Dorling’s house. Mrs Dorling
recognised her and even asked how she had come back alive from the
war. But she did not let the narrator enter her house. The narrator
recognised Mrs Dorling from the cardigan she was wearing. It was her
mother’s.
4. Who was Mrs Dorling? How did she rob or cheat Mrs S of all her
antiques and silver?
Ans. Mrs Dorling was an old acquaintance of Mrs S’s. She turned up
unexpectedly during the wartime. She suggested that the silver and
other antique valuables would be safe in her house. She won the
confidence of Mrs S and carried away everything to her own house.
Later on, she played foul and kept all those things with her.
5. How was the narrator convinced that she had come to the right
address and met Mrs Dorling?
Ans. The narrator went to House No: 46, Marconi Street. She
recognised Mrs Dorling who opened the door. She had no doubt that
she had come to the right place. She also noticed that Mrs Dorling was
wearing her mother’s knitted green cardigan.
6. Why did Mrs S allow Mrs Dorling to take away all her precious
things to her house? Why didn’t the narrator object to it in time?
Ans. Mrs S was of Jewish origin. During the war, all the Jews were
being evacuated from the country by the Nazi army. There was no
security of life and property. So Mrs S allowed Mrs Dorling to take
away all her silver and antique things for safe-keeping. The narrator
could not prevent it because she usually came home only during
holidays.
7. What was the narrator’s attitude toward her things transferred to
Mrs Dorling’s house?
Ans. The narrator came back home at the end of the war. She had lost
her interest in the silver cutlery and plates which had been taken away
by Mrs Dorling. But for once, she wanted to see them and touch them.
She felt very unhappy to see her things arranged tastelessly in Mrs
Darling’s house. So she resolved not to claim them back.
8. How did the narrator discover for certain that the woollen
tablecloth was hers?
Ans. In her second visit to Mrs Darling’s house, she noticed the
woollen tablecloth. It was hers. She remembered that there was a burn
mark on the edge which was never repaired. She ran her fingers on it
and found it.
9. Why did the narrator leave Mrs Dorling’s house in such a hurry?
Ans. The narrator had a painful experience on her first visit to Marconi
Street. She got a very cold shoulder. But she could not help paying a
second visit. She felt oppressed to see her things there. All her
mother’s antiques and precious silver and artefacts were kept
tastelessly in a small and musty room. Suddenly all those familiar
things lost their value for her. She did not want to see dishonest Mrs
Dorling again. So, she left the house in a hurry.
10. If the address of Mrs Dorling’s house was correct, why did the
narrator resolve to forget it?
Ans. The narrator visited Mrs Darling’s house a second time. In fact,
she had no desire to get all her things back. The address was correct
but she lost interest in those stored things. Her rented room was too
small for them. So she made up her mind to forget her treasure as well
as the address of Mrs Dorling.

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