How would you interpret “she couldn’t understand why” in the last sentence? How would you interpret “she couldn’t understand why” in the last sentence? Does it mean she couldn’t understand why she went right on telling the children those stories? Or does it mean she couldn’t understand why those stories scared the children? Thank you. PS: the excerpt is taken from “A Souvenir of Hell” written by an Israeli author, Etgar Keret. the context: Ever since the opening disappeared, it became harder to make ends meet, and also much more tired and serene. Her grandfather died, she married the fishmonger’s son, and the two shops merged. They had several children, and she loved to tell them stories, especially ones about the people who used to walk into the shop smelling of sulfur. Those stories would scare them, and they’d start to cry. But still, even though she couldn’t understand why, she went right on telling them.