All 4 Uses of
grotesque
in
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
- Francie looked and saw, not the baby's foot, but a grotesque thing in a big, worn-out shoe.†
Chpt 1 *
- There were always two boys who did a grotesque dance together, mimicking the girls and bumping into them rudely.†
Chpt 13
- Francie thought the revolver looked like a grotesque beckoning finger, a finger that beckoned to death and made it come running.†
Chpt 33
- The garments had frozen into grotesque shapes and didn't want to come in through the window.†
Chpt 35
Definitions:
-
(1)
(grotesque) distorted and unnatural in shape or size -- especially in a disturbing way
or:
ugly, gross, or very wrong -
(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
More rarely, grotesque can refer to a style of art or instances of it that combines or distorts in a fanciful way natural forms into something that is often ugly or disturbing. Grotesque can also be used specifically to reference a gargoyle-like sculpture without a waterspout.