All 4 Uses of
apathy
in
Tender is the Night
- XVIII Although the Divers were honestly apathetic to organized fashion, they were nevertheless too acute to abandon its contemporaneous rhythm and beat—Dick's parties were all concerned with excitement, and a chance breath of fresh night air was the more precious for being experienced in the intervals of the excitement.†
Chpt 1.18apathetic = without interest or enthusiasm
- He felt so intensely about people that in moments of apathy he preferred to remain concealed; that one could parade a casualness into his presence was a challenge to the key on which he lived.†
Chpt 1.20
- XV Meals with the patients were a chore he approached with apathy.†
Chpt 2.15 *
- From Nicole flowed a vast tragic apathy.†
Chpt 3.2
Definition:
lack of interest and enthusiasm