This is something he regrets when he shrinks his grandmother so much that she disappears completely.

When his grandma tries the medicine, she immediately grows to an enormous size, thinking she is magical. It was as if she was shrinking, as she had to have a footstool to put her feet on, and her head only came halfway up the back of the armchair.Whenever I see a live slug on a piece of lettuce,’ Grandma said, ‘I gobble it up quick before it crawls away. the old woman said, staring at George over the rim of the teacup with those bright wicked little eyes. I gave up growing when I was extremely small, along with all the other nasty childish habits like laziness and disobedience and greed and sloppiness and untidiness and stupidity. George's Marvelous Medicine study guide contains a biography of Roald Dahl, literature essays, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis. Some of us,’ she said, and all at once she was leaning forward in her chair and whispering in a throaty sort of voice George had never heard her use before.

She feels ignored, and when she storms over to the Kranky's house to moan more about this, she drinks another potion that shrinks her into obscurity. The result of Grandma actually taking George’s concoction is the point toward which the entire story has been moving. The BFG takes her to Giant Country, where they eat snozzcumbers, go dream-catching, and stop the other giants from eating human beans. George is either a junior poisoner or a child defending himself from a wicked grandparent, depending on your perspective.Next Section Character List Previous Section About George's Marvelous Medicine How To Cite https://www. It has a pair of sharp nippers on its back end and if it grabs your tongue with those, it never lets go. Left with an ungrateful and rude grandma he decides to start a new medicine to make her less rude and mean. They give the grandma another batch of the medicine and it makes her shrink to the point that no one can see the mean old grumpy lady. At the end of the book,, though, she does admit that this serves her right, and that she was becoming extremely annoying anyway.