All 3 Uses of
compulsion
in
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter
- She'd loved him, and all her life she had felt a compulsion to make up, somehow: for his inattention to his family; and for her mother's disappointment in having married a man so alien, finally, to herself.†
p. 41.6compulsion = an urge, force, or requirement to do something
- When he died, this compulsion to make things right again, to fix the world, had only intensified.†
p. 41.6
- He was with her like a fever, a compulsion, an open door into her own possibilities, into what she believed was freedom.†
p. 187.7 *
Definition:
a strong (possibly uncontrollable) urge to do something; or a force or a requirement that forces an action