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It's a moment that satisfies a long-buried secret, for one, and gives another a fresh perspective on life. Let's examine the story. When the story opens, we meet the narrator, Mike, who is about to set out for a visit to Lawnrest to see his grandmother. His sister, Annie, is supposed to go with him, but is sick. Mike is being given an inspection by his mother, who is checking out his hair and his relatively new moustache. The narrator tells us he decided to grow a moustache to prove a point that he could, but he'd since grown to like it.
His mother says the moustache is costing him money, simply because it makes him look older than his 17 years. Even the movie attendant had charged him the full ticket price for him and his girlfriend, Cindy, at a recent show. The narrator, Mike, who is named for his grandfather, is about to set off. His mother says, ''Your grandmother probably won't even recognize you,'' but he heads out.
Before she was afflicted both by memory loss and a condition that causes hardening of her arteries, Mike's grandmother: Mike isn't crazy about the idea of a visit to the nursing home because ''they reminded me of hospitals and hospitals turn me off. Mike arrives at the nursing home and sits for a while in the parking lot, thinking how he'd rather be with his girlfriend. But, guilt over all the birthday and Christmas gifts received from his grandmother pushes him out of the car and inside the nursing home.
Mike is pleasantly surprised by the inside of the nursing home: As he walks down the hall, he peers into rooms and becomes depressed at the sight of figures frozen in various stances: Mike's grandmother is watching television, and her eyes light up at the sight of him, ''Mike, Mike, I didn't think you'd come,'' she said. She starts describing a bird feeder outside her window, but Mike discovers there is no bird feeder. She mentions a Chesterfield coat that Mike isn't familiar with, but he tries to remember his mother's words to be patient and gentle during his visit.
After a woman with a juice cart leaves the room, Mike's grandmother begins recounting a story about the purchase of a piano during the Depression. She mentions ''Ellie,'' Ellen is the narrator's mother , and Mike realizes she has him confused with her late husband, Mike's grandfather, for whom he was named. Mike's grandfather also wore a moustache. The visit turns mournful as Mike's grandmother is stuck in the past. Mike tells his grandmother that he is not her husband, but her grandson.
Grandmother continues talking, about all the things she would say if her husband showed up at the nursing home. Her primary thought was to ask him to forgive her.
She remembers a night where she made accusations about another woman, loud enough to wake their baby in the other room, before finding out later that her husband had been telling the truth all along: The glitter was gone. And then the accident Mike is taken aback by this vulnerability in his grandmother: You see their pictures in the family albums and that's what they are: They're not supposed to come to life.
You drive out in your father's Le Mans doing seventy-five on the pike and all you're doing is visiting an old lady in a nursing home. And then you find out that she's a person. She's my grandmother, all right, but she's also herself. Like my own mother and father. They exist outside of their relationship to me. Shortly afterward, Mike leaves without a goodbye. When he gets home, his mother asks how the visit went. Mike says fine, but there's more he wants to say: I mean -- there's nothing to forgive between you, is there?
A moustache sparks memories and feelings for a year-old boy and his grandmother in this short story. Mike, who has recently grown a moustache, goes to visit his grandmother in her nursing home. Afflicted with memory troubles, his grandmother believes she is talking to her late husband and remembers a time where they had a fight, asking for Mike's forgiveness. Mike accepts her apology and flees the nursing home.
It causes him to question how the people around him are ''real,'' with their own set of emotions and problems outside of their relationship to him. He worries about his own parents. Later, he decides to shave off his moustache. To unlock this lesson you must be a Study. Login here for access. Did you know… We have over college courses that prepare you to earn credit by exam that is accepted by over 1, colleges and universities.
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Eventually, Pandarus develops a plan to urge the two into bed together; Troilus swoons when he thinks the plan is going amiss, but Pandarus and Criseyde revive him. Pandarus leaves, and Troilus and Criseyde spend a night of bliss together. Calchas eventually persuades the Greeks to exchange a prisoner of war, Antenor, for his daughter Criseyde. Hector, of Troy, objects; as does Troilus, although he does not voice his concern.
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Troilus speaks to Criseyde and suggests they elope but she offers a logical argument as to why it would not be practical. Criseyde promises to deceive her father and return to Troy after ten days; Troilus leaves her with a sense of foreboding. Upon arriving in the Greek camp, Criseyde realizes the unlikeliness of her being able to keep her promise to Troilus.
She writes dismissively in response to his letters and on the tenth day accepts a meeting with Diomede, and listens to him speak of love. Later, she accepts him as a lover. Pandarus and Troilus wait for Criseyde: Pandarus sees that she will not return and eventually Troilus realizes this as well. Troilus curses Fortune, even more so because he still loves Criseyde; Pandarus offers some condolences.
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The narrator, with an apology for giving women a bad name, bids farewell to his book, and briefly recounts Troilus's death in battle and his ascent to the eighth sphere, draws a moral about the transience of earthly joys and the inadequacy of paganism, dedicates his poem to Gower and Strode, asks the protection of the Trinity, and prays that we be worthy of Christ's mercy. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. For the Shakespeare play, see Troilus and Cressida. Publications of the Modern Language Association of America. Medieval Rituals, the Arts, and the Concept of Creation. Lewis , Selected Literary Essays , pp.
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