Question

“Of all the things I had to forget, that would be the easiest”. What does the speaker mean by ‘that’? What is its significance in the story?

Answer 1

‘That’ here stands for the address. The words: number 46, Marconi Street, i.e., the address recur throughout the story. The address is important for the narrator at the beginning of the story. However, at the end of the story, she resolves to forget it as she wants to break off with the past and move on with the present into the future.