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Quote #4
Her father had lived to be one hundred and two years old and had drunk a noggin of strong hot toddy on his last birthday. He told the reporters it was his daily habit, and he owed his long life to that. He had made quite a scandal and was very pleased about it (18).
It looks like feistiness runs in Granny's family. Granny's father shows that a dude of 102 can still have a few tricks up his sleeve. Maybe the line between young and old isn't quite as clear-cut as we sometimes think.
Quote #5
The thing that most annoyed her was that Cornelia thought she was deaf, dumb and blind. Little hasty glances and tiny gestures tossed around her and over her head saying, "Don't cross her, let her have her way, she's eighty years old," and she was sitting there as if she lived in a thin glass cage (24).
So Granny's got this idea that Cornelia thinks she's "deaf, dumb, and blind." The ironic and clever thing about this quote is that it shows that Granny gets this impression by paying attention to the subtleties of Cornelia's "little hasty glances and tiny gestures." This give us pretty good proof that she's actually super attuned to her surroundings and anything but deaf, dumb, and blind.
Quote #6
Sometimes Granny almost made up her mind to pack up and move back to her own house where nobody could remind her every minute that she was old (24).
Earlier in the story, Granny kind of embraces the fact that she's elderly, but here she's pretty strongly resisting the whole "old" label. What do you make of her contradictory feelings?