In what respect was the second visit of the narrator to 46 Marconi street different from the first one? Did she really succeed in her mission? Give a reason for your answers.

On her first visit Mrs. Dorling had refused to recognize her and did not let her enter the house. The narrator thus went home with a heavy heart and empty hands from the address her mother had asker her to remember. 
On her second visit she had succeeded in entering the house but upon entering it she took in her surroudings and noticed that Mrs. Dorling had been using all her mother's items that she had taken on the grounds of safe guarding. The narrator was upset that her mother's belongings were used by someone else on the grounds of a lie and she felt that the things no longer had her mother's touch and all the sentiments they held. So she went and decided to forget about everything as they would only get the bad memories back especially the address- 46 Marconi street. 
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The second visit of the narrator to 46, Marconi Street, was different from the first one in one respect. Dining the first visit, the narrator could not get admittance in the house, whereas during the second one, she was led to the living room, where she could see and touch some of the things she had wanted so eagerly to see. She had visited this place with a specific purpose—to see her mother’s belongings. The touch and sight of familiar things aroused memory of her former life. These objects had now lost their real value for her since they were severed from their own lives and stored in strange circumstances. Thus her mission to see, touch and remember her mother’s belongings was partly successful. She resolved to forget these objects, and their past and move on. This is clear from her decision to forget the address.
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