All 4 Uses of
therefore
in
This Side of Paradise
- She became almost incoherent—"Suppose—time in every Western woman's life—she feels her husband is prosperous enough for her to have—accent—they try to impress me, my dear—" Though she thought of her body as a mass of frailties, she considered her soul quite as ill, and therefore important in her life.†
Chpt 1.1 *therefore = for that reason
- ** On Thursday, therefore, he walked pensively along the slippery, shovel-scraped sidewalks, and came in sight of Myra's house, on the half-hour after five, a lateness which he fancied his mother would have favored.†
Chpt 1.1
- Therefore, at each performance of "Ha-Ha Hortense!" half-a-dozen seats were kept from sale and occupied by six of the worst-looking vagabonds that could be hired from the streets, further touched up by the Triangle make-up man.†
Chpt 1.2
- About three-fourths of the whole business was for effect and therefore harmless, ended at the door of the cafe, soon enough for the five-o'clock train back to Yale or Princeton; about one-fourth continued on into the dimmer hours and gathered strange dust from strange places.†
Chpt 1.3
Definition:
for that reason (what follows is so because of what was just said)