Both Uses of
disillusion
in
A Separate Peace
- "Who wants a Winter Carnival?" he said in the disillusioned way he had lately developed when I brought it up.
p. 130.6 *disillusioned = disappointed from losing false belief that something is better than it is
- I had heard this generation-complaint from Brinker before, so often that I finally identified this as the source of his disillusionment during the winter, this generalized, faintly self-pitying resentment against millions of people he did not know.†
p. 201.4disillusionment = disappointment resulting from losing false belief that something is better than it is
Definition:
disappoint by removal of false belief that something is better than it is