Question

A visit to Grandmother

Answer 1

In the short story A visit to grandma by Melvin Kelley Charles' relationship with his mother is very strained. As the novel ends after having an argument at the dinner table about how she treated Charles and his brother GL differently when they were children. In the final part of the novel Charles is upset in his room as GL arrives eager to see Charles again not knowing what has just happened between his mother and brother. In the future Charles may come to realise that his mother was only trying to protect him and she did that in the best way that she could even if that did mean treating the two boys very differently as they were growing up.