Olive Senior, the author of ‘The Two Grandmothers’, was born in Trelawney, Jamaica. She attended Montego Bay High School, and then went on to study journalism in Cardiff, Wales. She then studied at Carlton University in Ottowa. She currently lives in Canada but visits Jamaica regularly. SUMMARY Grandma Dell and Grandma Elaine a.k.a. Towser are the two grandmothers in the narrative, and the story begins with a little girl telling her mother about her experiences with them. Grandma Dell is her ‘country’ grandma, who lives in rural Jamaica, keeps cattle, serves her community, attends church with her granddaughter, and adores her granddaughter’s ‘beautiful’ complexion and hair. Her ‘town’ grandma, on the other hand, is Grandma Elaine. She has been married several times, is a socialite who dates affluent men, travels often, and is highly conscious of her physical beauty. Initially, the granddaughter favours her rural grandma, who was…
