Question

the three phases of the author's relationship with his grandmother before he left the country to study abroad​

Answer 1

the three phases of the author's relationship with his grandmother before he left the country to study abroad​

• For the author, Khushwant Singh, his grandmother, like everybody's grandmother, was an old woman who could never be young and pretty but was always beautiful. Her presence always exuded peace and contentment.

•  When the auhor's parents went to live in the city and left him with his grandmother, she took utmost care of him right from waking him up in the morning, to getting him ready for the school, taking him to and bringing him back from the school. Both enjoyed an easy companionship.

•   The author's parents asked for them to come to the city. This was the time when Khushwant Singh's relationship with his grandmother changed. The author went to a city school and subsequently, to the university, and slowly the friendship between them weakened.  

Answer 2

The story "The Portrait of a Lady" traces three phases of the author's relationship with his grandmother before he left the country to study abroad. In the first phase, the boy and the grandmother have a friendly relationship and they live in the village. The pattern of education was mainly concerned with moral and religious. The second phase began when they shifted to the city. There they have a change in their relationship. The pattern of the education got changed and there arose a rift between their relationship. Although they shared the same room they lacked the manner of communication which they used to do in the village. The third phase came in their life when the narrator went to the University for further studies. Now they do not share their room and they grew apart.