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What is the summary of the portrait of the lady |
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Answer» Soon the author decided to go to abroad for further studies. She came to the railway station to leave him off. She was not sentimental, Continously reciting her prayers and she kissed him on the forehead. After five years as he returned home , she was there came to pick him from the station , was still the same as she had been the five years ago. She clasped him within her hands and didn\'t say a word. She still used to feed her sparrows. As the days passed, he grew older and soon he went to university. He was given his own room and this made their relationship sour. She stopped talking to everyone and spent her all day by sitting at the spinning wheel , reciting prayers and moving beads of her rosary . However she loved feeding sparrows in the verandah at the dawn. Breaking breads into pieces and feeding if I to sparrows was her daily routine. The birds would sit on her legs, her head some even on her shoulders. Soon, the parents of the author who went to the city to settle in and called them. As they reached the city, his relationship with his grandmother took a turn though they shared the room , there bond grew apart. He used to go to an English medium school , she no longer accompanied him to his school and there were no longer stray dogs roaming around them while walking back home. She however, used to ask him about his say and what he had learned. She didn\'t understand anything as they was in another language of which she couldn\'t understand. She didn\'t approve with the new syllabus which he was studying because she thought that they did not teach him about God and scriptures. They saw less of each other In the initial days, the author and his grandmother had a good relationship. She used to wake him up and get him ready for school. She used to pack the things required by him for the day and walked with him to school everyday. She used to visit the temple that was attached to the school. The author and other children sat on verandah singing alphabet and morning prayer. They both used to come back home with stray dogs roaming around them as his grandmother would carry stale chappattis to feed them The chapter. The portrait of a lady is the story of the author and his grandmother. The grandmother was an old woman with wrinkled face. The author had always seen her like this for the past twenty years. She appeared to be so old that he couldn\'t imagine her being \'young and pretty\' someone who had a husband. She was short fat and slightly bent. The author had seen his grandfather\'s portrait, an old man with a turban and long white beard covering half of his chest. To the author his grandfather didn\'t seem like a man who could have a wife and children but someone who could have lots of grandchildren . His grandmother used to move around the house in\' spotless white\' with her one hand on her waist and the other hand counting beads of her rosary. |
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