All 5 Uses of
melancholy
in
The Bluest Eye
- A little examination and much less melancholy would have proved to us that our seeds were not the only ones that did not sprout; nobody's did.†
Chpt 1 *melancholy = a sad feeling or manner
- Rather, it foists itself on the eye of the passerby in a manner that is both irritating and melancholy.†
Chpt 2
- These feelings translated themselves to her in extreme melancholy.†
Chpt 4
- He resisted the introduction, but she married him anyway, only to discover that he was suffering from and enjoying an invincible melancholy.†
Chpt 4
- When she learned two months into the marriage how important his melancholy was to him, that he was very interested in altering her joy to a more academic gloom, that he equated lovemaking with communion and the Holy Grail, she simply left.†
Chpt 4
Definition:
a sad feeling or manner -- sometimes thoughtfully sad