All 7 Uses of
perplex
in
Winesburg, Ohio - by Sherwood Anderson
- Without looking back, the old man had hurried down the hillside and across a meadow, leaving George Willard perplexed and frightened upon the grassy slope.†
Chpt 2 *perplexed = confused or puzzled
- Like the rest of the town of Winesburg he was perplexed and knew not what to do.†
Chpt 8
- Running up and down before the two perplexed men, Joe Welling began to explain.†
Chpt 8
- A desire to run after her came to him, but he only stood staring, perplexed and puzzled by her action as he had been perplexed and puzzled by all of the life of the town out of which she had come.†
Chpt 11
- A desire to run after her came to him, but he only stood staring, perplexed and puzzled by her action as he had been perplexed and puzzled by all of the life of the town out of which she had come.†
Chpt 11
- Her father was ill and near death at the time and she was perplexed because of the meaningless outcome of an affair in which she had just been involved.†
Chpt 20
- On the evening before her marriage the perplexed girl had a talk with her father.†
Chpt 20
Definition:
to confuse