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1 felt so very dependent and helpless. We are well-off, but what use is money when I cannot be independent? (a) Who is ‘I’ in these lines? (b) Why did she feel very dependent and helpless? (c) We are ‘well-off’. What does the phrase ‘well-off’ ...

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Read the given extracts and answer the questions that follow:

1 felt so very dependent and helpless. We are well-off, but what use is money when I cannot be independent?

(a) Who is ‘I’ in these lines?

(b) Why did she feel very dependent and helpless?

(c) We are ‘well-off’. What does the phrase ‘well-off’ mean here?

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(a) ‘I’ stands for the narrator’s grandmother.

(b) She was illiterate so she felt herself dependent and helpless.

(c) Prosperous.

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