What is the significance of the title "The address"?

The title of the story "The Address" is quite appropriate. The whole action centers around it. The title is quite suggestive occurs at the beginning, middle end of the story. The author focuses the readers attention on it by her self-assurance that she had reached the correct address.

The middle part of the story reveals how she came to the address. It was her mother who had informed her about the place where Mrs. Dorling lived and asked her to remember it.

Finally the story ends dramatically with the narrators resolve to forget the address. She had remembered it for so many years now since the belongings of her mother stored there have lost their usefulness she finds that forgetting this address would be quite easy.

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Margo Minco has very aptly and logically titled this short story ‘The Address’. The narrator and her mother were victims of the war. The upheaval forced them to be wanderers. They had no permanent address worth the name. All the ‘nice things’ were at No. 46, Marconi Street. They aroused nostalgic feelings of former times. But their true owner was no more in the world. The narrator resolved to forget them and also the address where they lay.
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