Footprints Without Feet: The Necklace · Class 10 · CBSE English
Describe the immense transformation in Matilda's lifestyle and physical appearance over the ten years of hardship.
Practice question from Footprints Without Feet: The Necklace (Class 10 · CBSE English), with the correct answer and a step-by-step solution.
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Describe the immense transformation in Matilda's lifestyle and physical appearance over the ten years of hardship.
Answer: Over ten years of grinding poverty spent paying off heavy debts, Matilda transformed from an elegant, vain young woman into a strong, hard, and crude woman of poor households. Her hair badly dressed, skirts awry, and red hands, she washed floors, carried water, and bargained at markets to save every sou.
Solution
The student should highlight the drastic physical and psychological toll that hard labor and poverty took on Matilda, turning her into an old, weathered working-class woman.
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