Provide a brief conclusion on the chapter "The Portrait of a Lady".
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The story of this chapter circles around the author and his grandmother. She is very old and her face has wrinkled. The author watched her grandmother getting old. He said that he has been seeing her in this condition for the past two decades. All her hair has greyed and cascades on her face in a messy way. She wore white clothes and walked around inside the house. She was not strong enough to stand tall. She rather kept an arm on her waist for support. The other hand always holds a string of rosary beads.
The writer describes her as not pretty but an ever-beautiful person. He compared her face and the calmness in it with a wintery landscape. When he stayed in the village, her grandmother used to wake him up every day very early and cleaned his wooden slate. She made breakfast for him and dressed him for school. When the author returned from school, it was she who always accompanied him. They both let the dogs eat the stale chapattis. It was a blissful time in the village. It describes that this sweet relationship took a different turn when they went to a city.
His grandmother was not able to take him to the school as the bus arrived to pick him up. She used to participate in his studies but now the author studies English, Mathematics and Physics which she could not understand at all. It seemed that his grandmother made her life circle around his grandson. Now that she cannot go to school, she felt upset sitting idle at home. She also felt disappointed as the school did not teach about holy scriptures and God. These teachings have been replaced by music lessons and other extracurricular subjects. The writer grew up and studied at a university. The school days are over. He also got a different room in the house.
It seems that all the links between the grandmother and grandson were lost in time.
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