The Only Use
harrowing
in
The Great Gatsby
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- And yet I couldn't believe that they would choose this occasion for a scene — especially for the rather harrowing scene that Gatsby had outlined in the garden.†
p. 114.7
Definitions:
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(1)
(harrowing as in: a harrowing story) frightening or unsettling
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much more rarely, harrowing can mean breaking apart soil on a farm. Even more rarely (and archaically), it can mean harrying or harassing as in: "We are harrowing their army as they advance northward."