Question

Explain she looked like an expanse of pure white serenity?


From the chapter: The portrait of a lady, class 11 English,NCERT

Answer 1

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The grandmother was always dressed in spotless white. Moreover, she had silvery hair. Her white locks spread untidily over her pale and wrinkled face. She looked like an expanse of pure white serenity. The strech of snow over the Mountains is equally white and peaceful. So her silvery locks and white dress made her look like the Winter Landscape in the mountains.


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Answer 2

Answer:

The quote "she looked like an expanse of pure white serenity" is from the short story The Portrait of a Lady by Khushwant Singh.

Explanation:

The quote describes the author's grandmother who is an old lady. She is described as being old and wrinkly all the twenty years that the narrator had known her. She was short and fat and used to hobble around the house in white clothes. Her silver locks were often scattered across her face and she always seemed to mutter prayers while fondling her rosary.

The narrator uses the quoted sentence while comparing her face to a winter landscape in the mountains.