Identify the relationship between the narrator and his grandfather?

The character who most fills the narrator's thoughts and fuels his fears throughout the novel is his dead grandfather. Dying with bitter words on his lips, the narrator feels his grandfather has never understood humanity but cannot help but be haunted by his words and the meaning which seemed to flow from them. Irked that he seems to be acting in accordance with his grandfather's wish to "yes" the white men to death, the narrator imagines that his grandfather is laughing at him. The narrator's dream in which the grandfather prophetizes that the narrator will be kept running surfaces many times in the narrator's later life as he realizes that he has been blindly running from himself all of his life.