"The thought was almost revolting". Why does the narrator say so? Justify
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The poem ‘The Portrait of a Lady’ was written by Khushwant Singh.
In his poem, he uses the phrase “the thought was almost revolting”. By this phrase, the narrator means that it is hard to believe what he sees now.
He says so because he believes that his grandmother was young and very beautiful. She was the same for all the 20 years he had seen and known her. So he always assumed and thought she will be the same all her life which eventually cannot be true for any human being.
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The phrase is from the chapter 'The Portrait of a Lady' by Khushwant Singh.
The thought that the narrator's grandmother was once young and pretty was hard to believe as the grandmother had been the same for all the twenty years he had seen her and known her. The narrator assumed that his grandmother had been the same for all her life.