In the story Jade Peony, does the narrator grow from the challenges that these conflicts present?

The narrator does grow. Sekky adores his Grandmama; she is his “spiritual playmate.” He suffers from a sickness that does not allow him to attend school. On the bright side, he gets to spend time with his grandmother and learn more about Chinese traditions. He learns that everything dies but the spirit remains. When Sek-lung’s father and step-mother looked for that special sign that everything was fine, he found one of his grandmother’s beads in his pocket. That was a sign he needed that she wasn’t going to leave him.