All 6 Uses of
grotesque
in
The Great Gatsby
- This is a valley of ashes — a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and, finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air.
p. 23..3 *grotesque = distorted
- The most grotesque and fantastic conceits haunted him in his bed at night.
p. 99..0
- I Couldn't sleep all night; a fog-horn was groaning incessantly on the Sound, and I tossed half-sick between grotesque reality and savage, frightening dreams.
p. 147..1grotesque = distorted and ugly
- ...as he found what a grotesque thing a rose is...
p. 161..6grotesque = distorted in a disturbing way (from what was imagined)
- Most of those reports were a nightmare — grotesque, circumstantial, eager, and untrue.
p. 163..6grotesque = distorted and ugly
- 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..6grotesque = distorted in an unnatural way
Definition:
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(grotesque) distorted and unnatural in shape or size -- especially in a disturbing way
or:
ugly, gross, or very wrong