Question

In the end, the narrator was in no mood to remember the address given by her mother in the
story "The Address”. Why was it so?​

Answer 1

Explanation:

The Address” by Marga Minco narrates the story of a lady (possibly the author herself), who, after losing her entire family in the Holocaust, returns to ‘the address’ in order to collect all her family’s possessions that the author’s mother had left with Mrs Dorling, a non-Jewish lady, before leaving her homeland.

After the war was over, the author went to Mrs Dorling’s house to collect all her past possessions, but to her surprise, Mrs Dorling refused to recognize her. In a second attempt, the author rings the doorbell of Mrs Dorling’s house, only to be welcomed by her daughter. She offered her a cup of tea and asked her to wait for Mrs Dorling. As the author observed the room, she saw the cups and other utensils her mother had left with Mrs Dorling. She also came across the tablecloth with burn marks on it. She left the house without waiting for Mrs Dorling to return.