Carrer de Muntaner is associated with the narrator’s mother through the last apartment where she lived. The street enters the narrative not as a broadly described setting but as a place marked by bereavement: from a passing car, the narrator looks toward her mother’s balcony and watches her grandson silently do the same.

The Last Apartment

The narrator identifies the apartment on Carrer de Muntaner as her mother’s final home. The text offers no extended account of the street itself; its significance is concentrated in this home and the enduring presence attached to it. The balcony becomes a visible reminder of someone who is no longer there.

A Repeated Gesture of Remembrance

Whenever the family drives past the apartment, the narrator discreetly watches her older grandson raise his eyes toward the balcony. He does so in silence. The small, repeated gesture connects the child to his grandmother’s absence without requiring an explanation or conversation.

Family Memory and Loss

The narrator considers telling her grandson that his grandmother is in a better place, but rejects the reassurance as untrue to what mattered: for a long time, his grandmother most loved being with her grandchildren and her daughter. Carrer de Muntaner thus holds a personal memory rather than offering comfort through distance or abstraction. The passing glance toward the balcony keeps the mother’s former presence within the family’s everyday journeys.