The Only Use
compulsion
in
The Great Gatsby
(Edited)
- Her face was sad and lovely with bright things in it, bright eyes and a bright passionate mouth, but there was an excitement in her voice that men who had cared for her found difficult to forget: a singing compulsion, a whispered "Listen," a promise that she had done gay, exciting things just a while since and that there were gay, exciting things hovering in the next hour.
p. 9.6compulsion = a strong (perhaps irresistible) urge to do something
Definitions:
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(1)
(compulsion) a strong (possibly uncontrollable) urge to do something; or a force or a requirement that forces an action
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)