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Quote #1
While [Granny] was rummaging around she found death in her mind and it felt clammy and unfamiliar (18).
The characterization of death as "clammy and unfamiliar" sure does emphasize its creepiness, but it also lets us know that even at eighty years old, Granny isn't entirely consumed by the thought of death. Not only is death weird and unfamiliar to her, it's a pretty passive, inert force if it's just lying around in her head waiting to be found.
Quote #2
[Granny] had spent so much time preparing for death there was no need for bringing it up again. Let it take care of itself now (18).
Well, that's one way to deal with a fear of mortality: Burn yourself out on preparing for death and dying won't seem nearly that big a deal when it happens. Too bad that doesn't seem to be the case for dear Granny.
Quote #3
When she was sixty she had felt very old, finished, and went around making farewell trips to see her children and grandchildren, with a secret in her mind: This is the very last of your mother, children! [. . .] That was all just a notion like a lot of other things, but it was lucky too, for she had once for all got over the idea of dying for a long time. Now she couldn't be worried (18).
Death? Whatevs. Granny is so over the whole death thing. . .or so she says. Are there other parts of the story that contradict her claim?