All 3 Uses of
squalor
in
Of Human Bondage
- His soul danced with joy at that picture of starvation which is so good-humoured, of squalor which is so picturesque, of sordid love which is so romantic, of bathos which is so moving.†
Chpt 33-34squalor = extremely dirty and unpleasant living conditions
- The life of Paris had got into his bones, and he would not change it, notwithstanding its squalor, drudgery, and hardship, for any other in the world.†
Chpt 45-46 *
- He felt vaguely that here was something better than the realism which he had adored; but certainly it was not the bloodless idealism which stepped aside from life in weakness; it was too strong; it was virile; it accepted life in all its vivacity, ugliness and beauty, squalor and heroism; it was realism still; but it was realism carried to some higher pitch, in which facts were transformed by the more vivid light in which they were seen.†
Chpt 87-88
Definition:
(describing a place) extremely dirty and unpleasant -- typically due to poverty