Both Uses of
compassion
in
Main Street
- From meanly hating him she rose to compassion as she saw that his eyes begged every one to like him.†
Chpt 30 *
- She recalled tenderly the young awkwardness of Main Street and the makeshifts of the little brown cottages; she pitied their shabbiness and isolation; had compassion for their assertion of culture, even as expressed in Thanatopsis papers, for their pretense of greatness, even as trumpeted in "boosting."†
Chpt 38
Definition:
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(compassion) sympathy for another's suffering and wanting to help