Question

“We all missed him greatly: but in a sense we were relieved.”

(i) Who does ‘we all’ stand for?

(ii) Who did they miss?

(iii) Why did they nevertheless feel relieved?

Answer 1

(i) 'We all’ stands for the narrator, his wife, their son and their friends.

(ii) They missed Bruno (Baba).

(iii) When Bruno was sent to a zoo, they missed his sweet, mischievous and playful nature. But at the same time they felt relieved because he was getting too big to be kept at home.