Which thought about the grandmother was often revolting and for whom?
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Answer :
This question is based on the short story 'The Portrait of a Lady' by Khushwant Singh.
The thought that the grandmother was young and pretty was often revolting to the author. This was because he had always known his grandmother as an old woman with a wrinkled face and white hair and found it hard to believe that she could have been young and pretty once.
The answer can be found in the following lines from the short story :
1. 'My grandmother, like everybody’s grandmother, was an old woman. She had been old and wrinkled for the twenty years that I had known her. People said that she had once been young and pretty and had even had a husband, but that was hard to believe.'
2. 'As for my grandmother being young and pretty, the thought was almost revolting.'