Both Uses of
anguish
in
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
- They learned no compassion from their own anguish.†
Chpt 20 *anguish = extreme pain, suffering, or distress
- With a sound like an anguished whisper, nearly a thousand people knelt to pray briefly for the soul of a man only a dozen of them had known.†
Chpt 45
Definition:
extreme pain, suffering, or distress (of body or mind)