All 5 Uses of
grotesque
in
The Awakening
- Edna began to feel like one who awakens gradually out of a dream, a delicious, grotesque, impossible dream, to feel again the realities pressing into her soul.†
Chpt 11 *
- The shadows lengthened and crept out like stealthy, grotesque monsters across the grass.†
Chpt 13
- It did not strike her as in the least grotesque that she should be making of Robert the object of conversation and leading her husband to speak of him.†
Chpt 16
- There were days when she was unhappy, she did not know why,—when it did not seem worth while to be glad or sorry, to be alive or dead; when life appeared to her like a grotesque pandemonium and humanity like worms struggling blindly toward inevitable annihilation.†
Chpt 19
- Ellen brought him one of her dust-caps, and went into contortions of mirth, which she found it impossible to control, when she saw him put it on before the mirror as grotesquely as he could.†
Chpt 29
Definition:
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(grotesque) distorted and unnatural in shape or size -- especially in a disturbing way
or:
ugly, gross, or very wrong