All 6 Uses of
futile
in
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
- After each futile birth, her love of children grew stronger.†
Chpt 7
- Flittman thought Drummer was going to wet on him again and it was more than the harassed and futile little man could stand.†
Chpt 31
- She stood in desperate futility, helplessly enduring the indignity.
Chpt 44 *futility = unable to do anything about it
- It's more than anyone else is getting," he lied, "and if they found out..." he spread his hands in a gesture of futility.†
Chpt 44futility = pointlessness (uselessness)
- It was the same cry of futile despair he had uttered when Sissy had insisted that she had given birth to the baby.†
Chpt 47
- She put her arms around him and held the futile little fellow to her breast.†
Chpt 50
Definition:
effort that is pointless because it is unproductive or unsuccessful