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The story follows a daughter who returns to her native Holland after the war to search for her mother's belongings. She goes to the address of House Number 46 in Marconi Street that her mother had provided years earlier. When a woman answers the door, she recognizes the green knitted cardigan as her mother's but the woman does not acknowledge knowing her mother. The narrator remembers that her mother had mentioned an acquaintance, Mrs. Dorling, had been taking possessions from their house. The narrator returns to the address years later and is let in by a teenage girl. In the living room, she sees familiar objects that she longs for but also wishes to forget about. She decides to leave without the possessions and move

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The Address Summary

The story follows a daughter who returns to her native Holland after the war to search for her mother's belongings. She goes to the address of House Number 46 in Marconi Street that her mother had provided years earlier. When a woman answers the door, she recognizes the green knitted cardigan as her mother's but the woman does not acknowledge knowing her mother. The narrator remembers that her mother had mentioned an acquaintance, Mrs. Dorling, had been taking possessions from their house. The narrator returns to the address years later and is let in by a teenage girl. In the living room, she sees familiar objects that she longs for but also wishes to forget about. She decides to leave without the possessions and move

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The Address Summary 

– The story The Address is all about the human


predicament that follows the war. The story narrates how a daughter goes to her
native place in Holland in search of her mother’s belongings after the war.

At the beginning of the story, it is narrated how the protagonist was given a cold
reception when she went to her native place after the war in search of her mother’s
belongings. After ringing the bell of House Number 46 in Marconi Street, a woman
opened the door. On being introduced, the woman kept staring at her in silence.
There was no sign of recognition on her face. The woman was wearing her
mother’s green knitted cardigan. The narrator could understand that she had made
no mistake. She asked the woman whether she knew her mother. The woman could
not deny this.

The narrator wanted to talk to her for some time. But the woman cautiously closed
the door. The narrator stopped there for some time and then left the place. In the
subsequent sections, the memories of the narrator’s bygone days come to light. Her
mother had provided the address years ago during the war. She went to the home
for a few days. She could find that various things were missing. At that time her
mother told her about Mrs Dorling. She happened to be an old acquaintance of the
narrator’s mother. Lately, she had renewed contact with her and had been coming
there regularly. Every time she left their house, she took something home with her.
She said that she wanted to save all their nice possessions. The next day the
narrator saw Mrs. Dorling going out of their house with a heavy suitcase. She had a
fleeting glimpse of Mrs. Dorling’s face. She asked her mother whether the woman
lived far away. At that time the narrator’s mother talked about the address: Number
46, Marconi Street. After many days the after the war, the narrator was curious to
take record of the possessions that must still be at Number 46, Marconi Street.
With this intention, she went to the given address. The concluding part of the story
describes the second visit of the narrator. As the narrator’s first visit yielded no
result so she planned to go once again. Interestingly, a girl of fifteen opened the
door to her. Her mother was not at home.
The narrator expressed her wish to wait for her. The girl accompanied her to the
passage. The narrator saw an old-fashioned iron candle holder hanging next to a
mirror. The girl made her sit in the living room and went inside. The narrator was
horrified to find herself in a room she knew and did not know. She found herself in
the midst of familiar things which she longed to see again but which troubled her
in the strange atmosphere. She had no courage to look around her. But she no
longer had the desire to possess them. She got up, walked to the door, and left the
room. She resolved to forget the address and moved on.

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