The Only Use of
sullen
in
The Great Gatsby
- I see it as a night scene by El Greco: a hundred houses, at once conventional and grotesque, crouching under a sullen, overhanging sky and a lustreless moon.
p. 176..6sullen = dark & cloudy
Definition:
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(sullen as in: a sullen sky) darkened by clouds; or the color of a gloomy sky