All 4 Uses of
agony
in
Babbitt
- The evening before his marriage was an agony, and the morning wild with the desire to flee.†
Chpt 6 *
- He felt as though he had been stuffed with clay; his body was bursting, his throat was bursting, his brain was hot mud; and only with agony did he continue to smile and shout as became a host on Floral Heights.†
Chpt 9
- As he rode back to the hotel Babbitt reflected, "Myra would have enjoyed all this social agony."†
Chpt 13
- Dilling nodded in his curtest manner and strode up-stairs Babbitt tramped the living-room in agony.†
Chpt 33
Definition:
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(agony) intense feelings of suffering -- can be from mental or physical pain