KuaiLe
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I read this from Some Women, a short story by Alice Munro.
The narrator mentions that her mother "had an idea of going into the antique business".
But there's no clues about whether her mother actually had a job or not throughout the story.
And:
"My mother always defended women who were working on their own, and my grandmother always got after her for it."
The dictionary says that "get after" can mean "to pursue or attack" and "keep criticizing someone for not doing something".
In this context, does it mean that the grandmother disapproved of working women so she always argued with the mother for it?
Or quite contrary, that the mother's not working and the grandmother kept criticizing her for not having a job?
The narrator mentions that her mother "had an idea of going into the antique business".
But there's no clues about whether her mother actually had a job or not throughout the story.
And:
"My mother always defended women who were working on their own, and my grandmother always got after her for it."
The dictionary says that "get after" can mean "to pursue or attack" and "keep criticizing someone for not doing something".
In this context, does it mean that the grandmother disapproved of working women so she always argued with the mother for it?
Or quite contrary, that the mother's not working and the grandmother kept criticizing her for not having a job?
