The Address by Marga Minco

Analysis of a Key Passage The Address by Marga Minco In The Address by Marga Minco, the author suggests that people do non realize what they take for granted until they do non fix them any longer. In the excerpt, the storyteller is in a house with every(prenominal) her possessions, and the daughter of the muliebrity who in any casek all these possessions has no idea what is going on. Long ago, the vote counters mother had given all her worldly possessions to a strange lady, who ever took everything away with a look of greed.The narrator has come to the house with all the possessions, and it suddenly hits her that all her memories atomic number 18 just through the doorway. When she enters, she sees all of her possessions, in a room which I both knew and didnt know. This peerless simple line describes how she feels, how though all her memories argon in the room, they are not place in the right spot, as if the chronological view was off, and all her memories are mixed up. I f ound myself among things I had wanted to see again but which oppressed me in the strange purlieu describes her confusion, because though everything looked normal, (similar to the way she acts as if nobody is happening) its the inside tarradiddle of every object that is scaring her how it has her memories imprinted in it, and yet, they are not there anymore, because this is not her house, and she does not own any of this anymore.I scarcely dared to look around me anymore symbolizes her fright of looking at everything she had and lost, and now they do not fail to her, though she has a slight longing for them in order to have a sense of normality. Somewhere on the edge there should be a burn wad in which had neer been repaired this line, when read closely, depicts the hole as a sort of ledge, where her mind is clinging onto, so she may summon some familiar feeling in all this strangeness. It also depicts a large bottomless pit, where she wants to throw all the bad feelings and m emories away, throw them muddy into this hole.The daughter does not notice anything wrong, because she is like a newborn mess up she does not know where any of this comes from, but she does not question it, because she has been raise with these objects. But she is also the opposite of her mother while her mother steal all the possessions without a worry or a care, she is sweeter, gentler. The daughter is frank and unknowing of what happened, while the mother is guilty and knows exactly why the narrator is here. When prompted, she (the daughter) talks of how everything in the room is nothing important, how they are all antiques and nothing special.But the narrator then offers a retort of passion and sadness you puddle used to all these beautiful things at home, you hardly look at them anymore. You only nothice when something is not there, because it has to be repaired, or for example, because youve lent it to someone. This minor(ip) speech shows how she never thought of these p ossessions and memories as important, but now that they are not with her anymore, now that she knows she cannot take them all back, she feels they describe her life. But it is too late.Near the end of the excerpt, the narrator mentions how, when she was younger, she thought her cutlery was made from silver, but never really thought of it. The daughter laughs, but when she goes to check her own cutlery, the narrator rushes out, to forget the address and everything she ever remembered. This is because she wants to leave every memory she had behind, to absorb anew. It is her sudden realization that she does not possess these memories anymore that causes her to change and hale herself to forget everything from the past.