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Sb70012 Posted 13 years ago
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I am still a little afraid of missing something.........
Most of the confidences were unsought-frequently I have feigned sleep, preoccupation, or a hostile levity when I realized by some unmistakable sign that an intimate revelation was quivering on the horizon; for the intimate revelations of young men, or at least the terms in which they express them, are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions. Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope. I am still a little afraid of missing something if I forget that, as my father snobbishly suggested, and I snobbishly repeat, a sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth.
Source: The Great Gatsby http://www.publicbookshelf.com/fiction/great-gatsby/younger-vulnerable
Hello friends,
I know the meanings of each word written in the blue part but I can't understand it as a whole.
For example, why does the son insults his father by calling him "snobbishly..."
You see what I mean? Would you please clarify the blue part to me?
Thanks so much.
Source: The Great Gatsby http://www.publicbookshelf.com/fiction/great-gatsby/younger-vulnerable
Hello friends,
I know the meanings of each word written in the blue part but I can't understand it as a whole.
For example, why does the son insults his father by calling him "snobbishly..."
You see what I mean? Would you please clarify the blue part to me?
Thanks so much.
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" Snobbishly is an adverb. It is the manner in which his father was speaking. It is not an insult.
- " Snobbishly is an adverb.
- It is the manner in which his father was speaking.
- It is not an insult.
- He says: I should not forget what my father told me: that people are born with different moral values and the innate sense of behaving ethically.
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For example, why does the son insult his father by calling him "snobbishly..."
Snobbishly is an adverb. It is the manner in which his father was speaking. It is not an insult.
He says: I should not forget what my father told me: that people are born with different moral values and the innate sense of behaving ethically.
Snobbishly is an adverb. It is the manner in which his father was speaking. It is not an insult.
He says: I should not forget what my father told me: that people are born with different moral values and the innate sense of behaving ethically.
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