what horrified the narrator in mrs dorling living room?
The narrator was horrified by the simultaneous familiarity and unfamiliarity of the room. She stopped horrified in her tracks when she saw the room she felt she apparently knew the room but at the same time it appeared strange to her. She found herself amidst things which she did not want to see again and these familiar things seemed oppressive to her in unfamiliar surroundings. The narrator could not determine whether she was aghast at the dilapidated condition of the room or disturbed by her personal associations with it.