portrait of lady summary
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The Portrait of a Lady’ is written in first person and is in the biographical mode. In this story, the writer gives a detailed account of his Grandmother with whom he had a long association. Khushwant Singh recalls his Grandmother as short, fat and slightly bent. Her silver hair was scattered untidily on her wrinkled face. She hobbled around the house in white clothes with one hand resting on her waist and the other telling the beads of her rosary. Khushwant Singh remembers her as not very pretty but always beautiful. He compares her serene face to that of a winter landscape, During their long stay in the village, Grandmother woke him up in the morning, plastered his wooden slate, prepared his breakfast, and escorted him to school. While he studied alphabets, she read the scriptures in the temple attached to the school. On their way back home she fed stale chapattis to stray dogs. The turning point in their relationship came when they went to live in the city. Now, the author went to a city school in a motor bus and studied English, law of gravity, Archimedes’ principle and many more things which she could not understand at all.
Grandmother could no longer accompany him to school nor help him in his studies. She was upset that there was no teaching of God and scriptures at city school. Instead he was given music lesson which, according to her, was not meant for gentlefolk. But she said nothing.
When Khushwant Singh went to a university, he was given a separate room. The common link of their friendship was snapped. Grandmother rarely talked to anyone now. She spent most of her time sitting beside her spinning wheel, reciting prayers, and feeding the sparrows in the afternoon. When the author left for abroad, Grandmother did not get disturbed. Rather, she saw him off at the railway station. Seeing her old age, the narrator thought that it was his last meeting with her. But, contrary to his thinking, when he returned after a span of five years, Grandmother was there to receive him. She celebrated the occasion by singing songs of the home coming of warriors on an old dilapidated drum, along with the ladies of the neighbourhood.
Next morning she got ill. Although the doctor said it was a mild fever and would go away soon, she could foresee that her end was near. She did not want to waste time talking to anyone. She lay peacefully in bed praying and telling the beads till her lips stopped moving and the rosary fell from her lifeless fingers. To mourn her death thousands of sparrows flew in and sat scattered around her body. There was no chirruping and when Khushwant Singh’s mother threw breadcrumbs to the sparrows, they took no notice of the bread. They flew away quietly when the dead body of Grandmother was carried away for last rites.
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The author wrote this chapter as a pen portrait of his grandmother. She had been so much old that she could not get any older. She had wrinkled skin. The author couldn't believe the fact that she had been young , pretty and even had a husband. The stories which had been told by her about her plays of childhood appeared like the fables of the Prophets. According to the author she had always been short, fat and slightly bent. She used to wear white clothes and had a rosary of beads with her. She was a very religious lady.
This story is in three phases. The first first face is of their relationship in the village. She wake up in the morning and got him ready for school. She give him breakfast to eat also she used to accompany him at school and help him with his studies.
The second phase of their relationship begin when they went to city in the author got admission in English School. Now grandmother could not help him in studies anymore. She used to ask him about his education at school.
The third page is when she learnt that the author was learning music at school. Then, she really talked with author.
After that for higher education author went abroad but he didn't find his grandmother being sentimental. When he returned back to the country is found that grandmother was still the same. On that day she did not play but collected the women from neighbourhood and started to sing. She fall ill and gota mild fever and the doctor said that she would be fine. But the grandmother declined and told author and his family that it was her end. Before the protest she was gone. Even the sparrows expressed their sorrow by sitting quiet all over the room.