All 6 Uses of
antagonism
in
Look Homeward, Angel
- Very early, as his truancy mounted, and after he had been expelled, and as his life hardened rapidly in a defiant viciousness, the antagonism between the boy and Gant grew open and bitter.†
Chpt 1 *antagonism = hostility or opposition
- Years later, when he could no longer think of the barren spiritual wilderness, the hostile and murderous intrenchment against all new life—when their cheap mythology, their legend of the charm of their manner, the aristocratic culture of their lives, the quaint sweetness of their drawl, made him writhe—when he could think of no return to their life and its swarming superstition without weariness and horror, so great was his fear of the legend, his fear of their antagonism, that he still pretended the most fanatic devotion to them, excusing his Northern residence on grounds of necessity rather than desire.†
Chpt 1
- She shared in the fierce antagonism Gant felt toward his son.†
Chpt 2
- The antagonism between the boy and his older brother was deep and deadly.†
Chpt 2
- At these moments, after battle, after all the confusion, antagonism, and disorder of their lives had exploded in a moment of strife, they gained an hour of repose in which they saw themselves with sad tranquillity.†
Chpt 2
- His present trouble was aggravated by the cross-complication of Eliza's thrusts at his father, and the latent but constantly awakening antagonism of mother and daughter.†
Chpt 3
Definition:
hostility, opposition, or tension between opposing forces or ideas