Both Uses of
crucial
in
The Bell Jar
- I liked looking on at other people in crucial situations.†
Chpt 1 *crucial = very important
- Then f saw that my body had all sorts of little tricks, such as making my hands go limp at the crucial second, which would save it, time and again, whereas if I had the whole say, I would be dead in a flash.†
Chpt 13
Definition:
very important or necessary -- often because it determines how something else will turn out