All 6 Uses of
consternation
in
The Good Earth
- "No woman?" he asked in consternation.†
Chpt 3 *
- "It is too far away," she said in consternation.†
Chpt 5
- "Well, and but why do they seize my neighbor, who is as innocent as I who have never heard of this new war?" asked Wang Lung in great consternation.†
Chpt 14
- Ah, the fair land!" he cried out suddenly and fell to weeping so that the children were frightened and the old man, looking at his son in consternation, twisted his face this way and that under his sparse beard, as a child's face twists when he sees his mother weep.†
Chpt 14
- Wang Lung went back to the middle room in great consternation for he knew very well that now his uncle would never be driven forth again, now that he knew Wang Lung had wherewith to feed him.†
Chpt 20
- Now when Wang Lung and his son heard this they could scarcely conceal their dismay, but still it must be concealed because of the knives flashing everywhere through the courts, so they smiled what poor smiles they could muster and they said, "We are fortunate—we are fortunate—" And the eldest son pretended he must go to prepare and he took his father's hand and the two of them rushed into the inner court and the eldest son barred the door, and then the two, father and son, stared at each other in consternation, and neither knew what to do.†
Chpt 31
Definition:
dismay (unhappiness, worry, and often confusion) -- typically over something unexpected