Question

Wts the meaning of 'she rarely left her spinning wheel to talk to anyone ? '

Answer 1

The ‘she’ in question is the narrator’s grandmother. She always kept to herself and did not like to keep company with anyone. The grandmother was almost always busy spinning at the spinning wheel silently. She would not even move away from the spinning wheel to talk to anyone. Her life revolved around the spinning wheel and she preferred to keep away from her family by remaining aloof.

Answer 2

It means that narrator's grandmother kept herself alienated. She spent most of her day in front of her spinning wheel and feeding sparrows. She kept on spinning the wheel and reciting prayers. This was after narrator went up to University. They both had different rooms and the common link between them, the one room in which they lived, was snapped. Thus, grandmother,to relieve her loneliness,began spending her time with spinning wheel