Betrayal of trust is an evil which may afflict people of any time or any age.
Eleborate this statement in the context of the chapter 'The Address' describing
its characters.
Answers
It is true betrayal of trust is an evil which may affect people of anytime or any age. This truth has been beautifully highlighted in the chapter The Address. Mrs. Dorling betrayed the trust of Mrs. S and her daughter.
Mrs. Dorling was a greedy woman who did not return the belongings to the narrator. She herself had offered to take Mrs. S's things to her home to take care of them as long as they would be away. Mrs. S had entrusted the task of taking care of her things before leaving to save their life from Nazi soldiers. After the war when the narrator returned, and went to her house to take her mother's things back, she did not welcome her with a smile. She kept her standing at the door, and asked her to come some other day. Her selfish, inconsiderate and avaricious behavior hurt the already agonized narrator.