Question

Do you get the impression that the narrator enjoyed the days he spent with his grandmother as a child? Cite reasons.​

Answer 1

Answer:

Question 1:

How long had the narrator known his grandmother—old and wrinkled? What did people say? How did the narrator react?

Answer:

The narrator had known his grandmother—old and wrinkled for the last twenty years. She was terribly old. Perhaps she could not have looked older. People said that she had once been young and pretty. They said that she even had a husband. The narrator found it hard to believe.

Question 2:

How did the narrator’s grandfather appear in the portrait?

Answer:

His grandfather looked very old. He had a long white beard. His clothes were loose fitting. He wore a big turban. He looked too old to have a wife or children. He looked at least a hundred years old. He could have only lots and lots of grandchildren