Grisha Has Arrived - Analysis of the Text - Essay Example

Though a great deal of time has gone by, Inna, now 42 years old, remembers vividly with nostalgia a childhood experience with their brother, as she waits for him, not only to see him but to embrace and show him the undying love of a sister right from the airport from Moscow.

Along period indeed, Inna comes face to face with the brother, but fails to recognize him at first; his hair had gone grey and seemed shorter. Above all else, the life that the brother lives back home is but a complete contrast to what she expected from a working family, as evident from the brother’s dressing code; ‘a brown raincoat fit only for picking mushrooms, worn out shoes and a small suitcase.” From a warm, hearty welcome, Inna goes ahead to show her love for the brother and his entire family, walking the brother from one place to the next in the Americas. The brother’s visit would soon turn into a shopping expedition, with the brother “pushing shopping carts the size of an airplane hangar.” 

A visit that was highly awaited turned into an exploitative nightmare, with the sister wishing that the brother would leave as soon as time would permit. Inna is indeed relieved as he leaves for home, but is sad and feels like crying for the ordeal that his own sibling did put her through.

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