"The Address"~by Marga Minco
describes the evils of war. How?
(Snapshot lesson 2)
Dear Student,
Wars can make people selfish, mean and greedy. Margo Minco describes how wars bring out the worst side of human beings, the brutalities and injustices of wartime exigencies will lay hold to such a claim. In the story as well, we see the greediness and selfishness come out as in the guise of helping the narrator's mother, Mrs Dorling carries out her own private purpose of accumulating such possessions. From the disarrayed manner in which the antiques were kept in Mrs Dorling's house,we can infer that she had merely accumulated these things without a thought for using them or attaching any sentimental value. She had not taken care of them which is evident from the state in which they were to be found. The narrator was horrified by the simultaneous familiarity and unfamiliarity of the room. She stopped horrified in her tracks when she saw the room she felt she apparently knew the room but at the same time it appeared strange to her. She found herself amidst things which she did not want to see again and these familiar things seemed oppressive to her in unfamiliar surroundings. The narrator could not determine whether she was aghast at the dilapidated condition of the room or disturbed by her personal associations with it.
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