The Address by Marga Minco

Analysis of a Key Passage The name and 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 have them anymore. In the excerpt, the narrator is in a house with solely her possessions, and the daughter of the woman who took any these possessions has no idea what is going on. Long ago, the narrators catch had given all her mundane possessions to a strange lady, who always took anything 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 argon just through the doorway. When she enters, she sees all of her possessions, in a style which I both knew and didnt know. This one simple line describes how she feels, how though all her memories are in the room, they are non place in the right spot, as if the chronological placement was off, and all her memories are mixed up. I found myself among things I had wanted to see again except which oppressed me in the strange surroundings describes her confusion, because though everything looked normal, (similar to the way she acts as if nothing is happening) its the inside story 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 simply dared to look around me anymore symbolizes her fright of looking at everything she had and lost, and now they do not fit to her, though she has a slight longing for them in order to have a sense of normality. someplace on the edge there should be a burn hole in which had never been repaired this line, when interpret closely, depicts the hole as a sort of ledge, where her mind is clinging onto, so she may find some known feeling in all this strangeness. It also depicts a large bottomless pit, where she wants to throw all the large(p) feelings and memories away, throw them deep i nto this hole.The daughter does not notice anything wrong, because she is like a newborn baby she does not know where any of this comes from, entirely she does not question it, because she has been raised with these objects. But she is also the opposite of her mother while her mother stole all the possessions without a worry or a care, she is sweeter, gentler. The daughter is absolved 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 get 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 small speech shows how she never thought of these possessions 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 shutdown 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 scratch anew. It is her sudden realization that she does not possess these memories anymore that causes her to change and force herself to forget everything from the past.