But they had lost their value since they had been separated from her mother and stored in strange surroundings. She no longer wanted to see, touch or remember these belongings. She resolved to forget the address. She wanted to leave the past behind and decided to move on. Answer: The war creates many difficult and unpleasant situations for human beings. Sometime it becomes difficult to know what to do. The human predicament that follows war is amply illustrated through the experience of the narrator.
The war had caused many physical difficulties as well as emotional sufferings to her. She had lost her dear mother. How greedy and callous human beings can become is exemplified by the behaviour of Mrs Dorling.
She did not even let her in. Now these valuables had lost all their importance for her as they had been separated from her mother. She could get no solace or comfort from them. Answer: Mrs Dorling held her hand on the door as if she wanted to prevent it opening any further. Her face showed no sign of recognition. She kept staring at the narrator without uttering a word.
Question 2: What two reasons did the narrator give to explain that she was mistaken? Answer: She thought that perhaps the woman was not Mrs Dorling. She had seen her only once, for a brief interval and that too years ago.
Secondly, it was probable that she had rung the wrong bell. Question 3: How did the narrator conclude that she was right? The wooden buttons were rather pale from washing. She saw that the narrator was looking at the cardigan.
She half hid herself again behind the door. Her reaction convinced the narrator that she was right. Question 4: What was the outcome of the interview between Mrs Dorling and the narrator? Answer: The interview was a flop as far as the narrator was concerned.
Question 5: Who had given the narrator the address, when and under what circumstances? The narrator came home for a few days and missed various things in the rooms. Then her mother told her about Mrs Dorling and gave her the address. Question 6: What did the narrator learn about Mrs Dorling from her mother? The latter had not seen her for several years. Then she suddenly turned up and renewed their contact. Every time she left that place she took something with her—table silver, antique plates, etc.
She wanted to save all her nice things. She explained that they would lose everything if they had to leave the place. She was fond of collecting valuable things. She is more worried about the physical risk to Mrs Dorling than losing them to her.
She thought it an insult to tell her friends to keep those things for ever. Question 9: Did the narrator fee Up evinced about the views of her mother regarding Mrs Dorling? How do you know? It is evident from the questions she puts to her mother. Question What does the narrator remember about Mrs Dorling as she saw her for the first time? Answer: Mrs Dorling was a woman with a broad back. She wore a brown coat and a shapeless hat. She picked up a heavy suitcase lying under the coat rack and left their house.
She lived at number 46, Marconi Street. Question Why did the narrator wait a long time before going to the address number 46, Marconi Street? She was also afraid of being confronted with things that had belonged to her mother, who was now no more. She knew that those things must still be at the address her mother told her. She wanted to see them, touch and remember. What prompted her to make this observation?
Answer: The narrator found herself in the midst of things she was familiar with and which she did want to see again. However, she found them in a strange atmosphere where everything was arranged in a tasteless way. What prompted her to make this remark? The reference to antique box and silver spoons prompted her to make this remark.
Question How was the narrator able to recognise her own familiar woollen table- cloth? Answer: The narrator first stared at the woollen table-cloth. Then she followed the lines of the pattern. She remembered that somewhere there was a bum mark which had not been repaired. At last she found the bum mark on the table-cloth. This helped her to recognise her own familiar article.
What examples does she give? One hardly looks at them any more. It is only when something is missing that it is noticed either because it is to be repaired or it has been lent to someone. Question How did narrator come to know that the cutlery they ate off every day was silver?
The narrator asked her which silver she meant. Her mother was surprised at her ignorance and replied that it was the spoons, forks and knives, i. Question Why did the narrator suddenly decide to leave? However, these objects seemed to have lost their value in strange surroundings and on being severed from the life of former times. Answer: The narrator felt that her mother had only lent them for safe custody and Mrs Dorling was not to keep everything.
On seeing these objects, memories of her former life were aroused. She found no room for these precious belongings in her present life.
So she reconciled to her fate. What is its significance in the story? The words: number 46, Marconi Street, i. The address is important for the narrator at the beginning of the story.
However, at the end of the story she resolves to forget it as she wants to break off with the past and move on with the present into the future.
Question 1: How did the narrator come to know about Mrs Dorling and the address where she lived? Answer: Years ago, during the first half of the war, the narrator went home for a few days to see her mother. After staying there a couple of days she noticed that something or other about the rooms had changed.
She missed various things. Then her mother told her about Mrs Dorling. She was an old acquaintance of her mother. She had suddenly turned up after many years. Now she came regularly and took something home with her everytime she came. She suggested that she could save her precious belongings by storing them at her place.
Mother told her address, Number 46, Marconi Street. The narrator asked her mother if she had agreed with her that she should keep everything. Her mother did not like that. She thought it would be an insult to do so.
She was worried about the risk Mrs Dorling faced carrying a full suitcase or bag. What impression do you form of Mrs Dorling from it? Since she wanted to see them, she took the train and went to 46, Marconi Street. Mrs Dorling opened the door a chink.
The narrator came closer, stood on the step and asked her if she still knew her. The narrator told her that she was the daughter of Mrs S. Mrs Dorling kept staring at her in silence and gave on sign of recognition. She held her hand on the door as if she wanted to prevent it opening any further. The narrator recognised the green knitted cardigan of her mother that Mrs Dorling was wearing. Mrs Dorling noticed it and half hid herself behind the door.
The narrator again asked if she knew her mother. Mrs Dorling asked with surprise if she had come back.
She declined to see the narrator or help her. Question 3: In what respect was the second visit of the narrator to 46, Marconi Street different from the first one?
Did she really succeed in her mission? Give a reason for your answer. Answer: The second visit of the narrator to 46, Marconi Street, was different from the first one in one respect. Dining the first visit, the narrator could not get admittance in the house, whereas during the second one, she was led to the living room, where she could see and touch some of the things she had wanted so eagerly to see.
The touch and sight of familiar things aroused memory of her former life. These objects had now lost their real value for her since they were severed from their own lives and stored in strange circumstances.
She resolved to forget these objects, and their past and move on. This is clear from her decision to forget the address. Question 4: What impression do you form of the narrator? Answer: The narrator leaves a very favourable impression on us about her emotional and intellectual qualities. We find her an intelligent but devoted daughter. She loves and respects her mother, but does not approve of her soft behaviour towards her acquaintance, Mrs Dorling. She puts a pointed question, which her mother thinks impolite.
The narrator has a keen power of observation. She notices during her brief stay at home that various things are missing from the rooms. She has a sharp power of judgment. She once sizes up Mrs Dorling. Her resolution to forget the address and move on shows her grit and forward looking nature.
She has a progressive personality. Question 5: Comment on the significance of the title of the story The Address. Answer: The title of the story The Address is quite apt. It is the spring wheel of the action. In fact the whole action centres round it. The title is quite suggestive and occurs at the beginning, middle and end of the story.
The middle part of the story reveals how she came to know the address. It was her mother who informed her about the place where Mrs Dorling lived and asked her to remember it. The wheel comes full circle. She had remembered the address for so many years and now since the belongings of her mother stored there have lost their usefulness she finds that forgetting this address would be quite easy.
Question 1. Question 2. In total, how many times did the author visit the given address? Question 3. The author had come to visit Mrs. Question 4. At the end, what does the author decide? Question 5. Why did the author leave Mrs. Dorling in a hurry? Question 6. According to the author, when do we notice the things in the house? Question 7. In what condition did the author find the living room? Question 8. Question 9. Unlike Mrs. Question Why had the author come to visit Mrs.
Dorling called her c Because she missed Mrs. Dorling d None of the above. How does the author describe Mrs. It is only after the truth of Rebecca's death is revealed that Maxim becomes a more sympathetic character. His previous moodiness and detachment from the narrator are explained, and he is suddenly capable of treating the narrator as an equal partner in the relationship, rather than a child.
From the very start, it is clear that Mrs. Danvers is the antagonist of the narrative; her rude resentment of the narrator establishes their relationship as the conflict that must be resolved.
However, Mrs. Danvers is also crucial as the physical representation of Rebecca's presence at Manderley. Danvers maintains all of Rebecca's traditions and habits in the house -- even down to the use of the house telephone for approving menus -- and strives to keep Manderley the same as it was during Rebecca's life.
In this role, Mrs. Danvers also articulates the narrator's fears about Rebecca, assuring her that she is and always will be inferior to Rebecca. It is only after the narrator discovers that Maxim never loved Rebecca that she is able to escape Mrs. Danvers and Rebecca's influence at Manderley.
Ben is the only character in the novel to refer to Rebecca in a negative way from the very beginning. Until Maxim reveals the truth about Rebecca near the end of the book, the narrator operates under the delusion that Rebecca was beloved by everyone. As such, she overlooks Ben's cryptic assertions about Rebecca, assuming that they are merely the confused ramblings of a mentally disabled man.
In this way, Ben assumes the position of the wise fool, a literary archetype that dates back to Ancient Rome but was popularized in Shakespearean plays such as King Lear. As with the Fool in King Lear who uses his "mental eye" to see the true natures of the King's daughters, Ben is able to see the evil in Rebecca long before the narrator does.
For the majority of the novel, the narrator gives the impression of being very innocent, timid, unsophisticated, and insecure. Rebecca, on the other hand, is described by all as being overwhelmingly beautiful, elegant, graceful, vivacious, and clever. The narrator herself prefers Rebecca's glamour and sophistication to her own shyness and finds it difficult to believe that Maxim could ever love such an inferior character.
Even to the readers, Rebecca seems to be a more appropriate heroine than the insecure girl with lanky hair is. However, as Frank Crawley points out, the narrator also possesses characteristics that Rebecca could never attain: modesty, sincerity, and kindness. After the narrator comes into her own at the end of the book, Rebecca no longer seems to be superior.
The narrator is now a self-assured confident woman, far more worthy of being a heroine than the flashy and sexualized Rebecca. Although Manderley does not have an overt role in the novel, Maxim's love for the estate is the underlying catalyst of all of the major conflicts in the novel. After Maxim marries Rebecca and learns the truth of her nature, he agrees to remain married to her because she promises to transform Manderley into a magnificent estate.
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