person
Grandfather (retired general)
Grandfather
also: дедушка, Dedushka
The narrator's grandfather, a retired general living as a dependent in the narrator's household, whose nightly moral tirades against his grandson are undercut by his own worse past conduct.
Reading notes
- A Chip Off the Old Block §1 a retired general
The narrator's grandfather, a retired general who lives as a dependent in the narrator's household. His nightly tirades of moral outrage, aimed at a grandson whose vices mirror his own, drive the whole sketch.