Both Uses of
affinity
in
The Sound and the Fury
- …women from one anotherfrom themselves our women Women are like that theydont acquire knowledge of people we are for that they are just born with a practicalfertility of suspicion that makes acrop every so often and usually right they have an affinity for evil for supplying whatever the evillacksin itself for drawingit about them instinctively as youdo bed-clothingin slumber fertilising the mind forituntil the evil hasservedits purpose whetherit everexisted orno He was coming…†
Chpt 2
- his voice ... that breathed an affinity for evil, for believing that no woman is to be trusted,
Chpt 2 *affinity = a natural attraction
Definition:
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(affinity) a natural attraction, sympathy, or important similarity