All 3 Uses of
pathos
in
This Side of Paradise
- "I am feeling very old to-day, Amory," she would sigh, her face a rare cameo of pathos, her voice exquisitely modulated, her hands as facile as Bernhardt's.†
Chpt 1.1 *
- As an open fire in a dark room throws romance and pathos into the quiet faces at its edge, so she cast her lights and shadows around the rooms that held her, until she made of her prosy old uncle a man of quaint and meditative charm, metamorphosed the stray telegraph boy into a Puck-like creature of delightful originality.†
Chpt 1.4
- O. Henry had found in these people romance, pathos, love, hate—Amory saw only coarseness, physical filth, and stupidity.†
Chpt 2.5
Definition:
a quality that arouses pity or sorrow