Question

What does the narrator mean when she says that they “…had endured all those years because they were ‘things’ ”.
Story: The Address

Answer 1

Question:

What does the narrator mean when she says that they “…had endured all those years because they were ‘things’ ”.

Answer:

• It means that the narrator no longer wished to look at the things that had belonged to her mother.

• She felt that her mother's items, being mere things stored in boxes, had managed to survive the war, whilst her mother, who was a human being was killed during the war.

• She did not want them and did not want to look at them either because she was afraid that they would remind her of her mother.

• She argued that her mother's items were of no use to her, when her own mother, the true owner of the items was dead.