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Bellomont
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Country residence of basically everyone in House of Mirth.
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The Benedick
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Bachelor building where Selden lives.
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Americana
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Selden's interest is in collecting Americana.
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Dispeptic
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George from House of Mirth is dispeptic.
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Herbert Melson
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The man with whom Lily was once in love.
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Skeletons
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That which Bertha tells Gryce Lily has in her closet.
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Bridge
Definition
Status game on which Lily gambles.
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Letters
Definition
That which Mrs. Haffen offers to Lily to use as extortion against Selden.
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Adirondacks
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Where Carry Fisher invites Lily.
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Tableux Vivants
Definition
What Lily plays. Duh.
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Sabrina
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Name of the ship on which Lily goes cruising.
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Lady Skiddaw
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Among the European royalty with whom Lily associates.
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Emporium
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The Hotel in which Lily works as a secretary.
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Milliner
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The job Lily takes when she has nothing else to do.
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Nettie Struther
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met Lily when Lily saved her from an illness while participating in Gerty's charity organization. Although Nettie was sick, she has totally recovered, and is enjoying a successful marriage with her husband and their newborn child. Nettie, seeing that Lily is sick, takes her home to her house, where Lily warms up in the kitchen while Nettie tells Lily of her success in working her way up from the gutter to a happy family life.
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West Egg
Definition
The lesser Egg. (Gatsby)
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The Rise of the Colored Empires
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Book that Tom tells Nick about in Gatsby. Racist.
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Goddard
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Author of The Rise of the Colored Empires, which is a book that Tom tells Nick about in Gatsby. Racist.
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Spectacle-rimmed eyes
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The things that look out on the valley in between the Eggs in Gatsby.
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Owl Eyes
Definition
Man at Gatsby's party. Named Owl Eyes by Nick.
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Medal from Montenegro
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Gatsby shows this to Nick to prove that he was really a war hero.
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1919 World Series
Definition
The World Series that Gatsby's friend rigs.
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Shirts
Definition
Daisy cries over Gatsby's shirts.
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The green light
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The thing at the end of Daisy's dock that Gatsby stares at a lot.
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Ain't We Got Fun
Definition
The song played at Gatsby's.
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The Reporter
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The guy who travels to see Gatsby to find out his real history, and fails.
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Dan Cody
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The mogul whom Gatsby saves.
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Mrs. Lloyd
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The painting Lily poses as.
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Air matress
Definition
That which Gatsby is lying on when he's shot by Wilson.
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Coffin
Definition
Angels in America funeral.
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Sarah Ironson
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Dead woman in Angels funeral.
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La Cage
Definition
Play in Angels.
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Little Sheba
Definition
Louis and Pryor's cat that's missing in Angels.
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Gray feather
Definition
Mark of the Angel in Angels, duh.
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AZT
Definition
The experimental AIDS drug that Roy tries.
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Aleph
Definition
Appears in Angels during the Belize-Lewis discussion.
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Overalls
Definition
That which Janie wears when she's free.
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Mule
Definition
That which Nanny doesn't want Janie to become. Starks later buys a 2nd mule.
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Leafy
Definition
Nanny's daughter with her Master in Eyes.
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Traffic Light
Definition
Starks puts this on a pedestal. Literally and figuratively.
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Spittoons
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That which Starks buys for Janie.
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Headrag
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That which Starks makes Janie wear so she does not tempt other men.
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Vultures
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That which descends on the dead mule in Eyes.
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A plug of Tobacco
Definition
Janie makes a mistake when cutting this down in the store. Starks mocks her for it in front of the customer. Janie replies by insulting Starks, so he beats her.
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Cigarettes
Definition
That which Tea Cake buys from Janie's store.
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The Muck
Definition
Where Tea Cake and Janie go. The everglades.
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Lake Okechobee
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The lake on which there's a hurricane in Eyes.
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Cow and Dog
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During the flood, Janie grabs at a cow and dog, for safety. The dog bites at her. The dog is rabid, and gives rabies to Tea Cake when he saves Janie.
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Package of seeds
Definition
That which Janie plans to plant in memory of Tea Cake.
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The Plane
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Snows of Kilamanjaro. Crashed plane.
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Hyena
Definition
Whimpering, laughing, human-eating creature at the end of Kilimanjaro.
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Dry water hole
Definition
Where the lost people try to make camp in Kilamanjaro.
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Weak Carbolic Solution
Definition
That which supposedly spoiled Harry's leg in Kilimanjaro
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Electric Light
Definition
Metaphor in Clean Well-Lighted Place.
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Brass Number
Definition
From Clean Well-Lighted Place. On a soldier's collar. Symbol of youth.
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Leaves
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The only nature in the bar in Clean Well-Lighted Place.
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Insomnia
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"Many must have it." Artistry, etc. Clean Well-Lighted Place.
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102 Degrees
Definition
A Day's Wait.
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Book of Pirates
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Book read to the boy in A Day's Wait.
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Howard Pyle
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Author of book read to the boy in A Day's Wait.
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A Sign to Detour
Definition
Fathers and Sons. The main character describes this sign leading him to make a turn off of Main Street.
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The Hawk
Definition
Comparison to Nick's father in Fathers and Sons.
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A bugger
Definition
A man who has sex with animals. Father-son conversation in Fathers and Sons.
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Enrico Caruso
Definition
Arrested for Mashing in Fathers and Sons.
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Squirrel
Definition
The blend of nature and mankind. Gets shot in Fathers and Sons.
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Ojibways
Definition
The type of indians Nick hangs out with in Fathers and Sons.
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Work-a-day Gray
Definition
Gerty Farish's eyes are described by Lily as this color in House of Mirth.
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Annie Tyler
Definition
Eyes Were Watching God. When Janie marries Tea Cake, and he leaves her to go to the party, everyone tells her she's going to end up like Annie Tyler.
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Digitalis
Definition
Mrs. Pennyston takes this as nerve medicine when she's freaked out by Lily's gambling debts.
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Incorrigible Missionary
Definition
House of Mirth. What Selden calls Gerty Farish.
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Cold Fried Chicken
Definition
In Gatsby, Tom and Daisy are eating chicken and ignoring the fact that they just killed somebody.
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Liver Exercises
Definition
The guy who lives in Gatsby's house and plays the piano does them.
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Palm Tree Dance
Definition
Eyes Were Watching God. When she's in the courtroom, having been charged with killing Tea Cake, Tea Cake's friends are in the back swaying with palm leaves.
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Snowy Virginity
Definition
Eyes Were Watching God. When she's having her sexual awakening at the pear tree, she's described as having "snowy virginity."
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Captured Dryad
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In House of Mirth. During the Tableau Vivant description, Lily is described as looking like a captured Dryad.
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Beyond!
Definition
Lily's seal on her letters in House of Mirth.
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"You dream, you."
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Daisy says this to her child. Ignoring the fact that her child is reality. In Gatsby.
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Terrepin
Definition
Turtle. They're always eating it in House of Mirth. It's a luxury item.
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Juke
Definition
The band in Eyes when they're in the muck.
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Wood Chips
Definition
Logan makes Janie chop them during their marriage.
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The Gormers
Definition
Secondary social class that Lily joins when kicked out of her first one.
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Puppy
Definition
Tom gets this for Myrtle as a way of apologizing.
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Roasted Chestnuts
Definition
On one of the paths in In Another Country there's a woman selling chestnuts that are freshly roasted on the path.
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Fratellanza and abnegazione
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That which the narrator's papers are written with in In Another Country.
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Cova
Definition
The Café in In Another Country.
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Fornaci
Definition
The last city Nick had been in in A Way You'll Never Be.
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Mulberry Leaves
Definition
On the left side of the road in A Way You'll Never Be, the mulberry leaves shield guns hidden in the grass.
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American Uniform
Definition
That which (physically) sets Nick apart in A Way You'll Never Be.
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The American Grasshopper/Locust
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Nick's rant in A Way You'll Never Be.
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Gimlet
Definition
Everyone drinks the same thing, a gimlet, in The Short Happy Life of Francis McComber.
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The Lion
Definition
Representative of Nature in The Short Happy Life of Francis McComber.
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Rose-colored Sun-proofed Shirt
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Representative of tourism in the Short Happy Life...
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Jodfirst
Definition
He's immasculated. From Snows of Kilimanjaro.
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"Drinking their whisky"
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The expression by safariers when the safari goes bad. From Short Happy Life...
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Wakamba
Definition
The language spoken in the part of Africa where the safari is taking place in The Short Happy Life...
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Omnibus
Definition
Empty ritual in House of Mirth.
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Thursday Afternoon in March
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Louis's idea of an afterlife in Angels.
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Breathing, sweating organ
Definition
Law in Angels.
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