All 3 Uses of
dismay
in
How to Read Literature Like a Professor
- Lest you conclude with dismay that the novel is somehow plagiarized or less than original, let me add that I find the book wildly original, that everything O'Brien borrows makes perfect sense in the context of the story he's telling, even more so once we understand that he has repurposed materials from older sources to accomplish his own ends.†
Chpt 5dismay = sadness, disappointment, or worry
- The big duels—between Hector and Ajax, between Diomedes and Paris, between Hector and Patroclus, between Hector and Achilles—are genuinely exciting and suspenseful, their outcomes sources of grand celebration and dismay.†
Chpt 9 *
- We are nervous and dismayed by this description even before anything has happened, so of course when things do begin happening, when we meet Roderick Usher, one of the creepiest characters to ever grace the pages of a story, he can't give us the creeps because we already have them.†
Chpt 19
Definition:
to feel sadness, disappointment, or worry -- typically in response to something surprising