All 3 Uses of
convention
in
A Separate Peace
- He analyzed my character, and he insisted on knowing what I disliked most about him ("You're too conventional," I said).
p. 46.4 *conventional = normal or typicaleditor's notes: Gene answers Finny ironically--saying one thing while meaning the opposite.
- To slam the door impulsively on the past, to shed everything down to my last bit of clothing, to break the pattern of my life—that complex design I had been weaving since birth with all its dark threads, its unexplainable symbols set against a conventional background of domestic white and schoolboy blue, all those tangled strands which required the dexterity of a virtuoso to keep flowing—I yearned to take giant military shears to it, snap!
p. 100.8conventional = normal or typical
- But the war had modified even his standards; all forms of physical exercise had become conventional for the Duration.
p. 121.5
Definitions:
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(1)
(convention as in: teacher's convention) a large conference or meeting
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(2)
(convention as in: conventional behavior) something regarded as normal or typical
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(3)
(convention as in: The Geneva Convention) a written international agreement
- (4) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)