Should I add a "which" here?

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I've been reading &lt;The Great Gatsby&gt;The only picture was an over-enlarged photograph, apparently a hen sitting on a blurred rock. Looked at from a distance, however, the hen resolved itself into a bonnet, and the countenance of a stout old lady beamed down into the room. I think "and the countenance of a stout old lady which beamed down into the room" is the right one .      "which"  is  "the countenance".   Should I add a "which" here?But F Scott Fitzgerald couldn't be wrong , so I need help.

Neeraj Jain · Accepted Answer

Why do you think that this sentence requires "which"?

Yankee · Answer

FatcatXNI think "and the countenance of a stout old lady which beamed down into the room" is the right one . "which" is "the countenance". Should I add a "which" here? No.

In Fitgerald's sentence, the hen looks like a bonnet and the blurred rock looks like a face (countenance).

If you added the word which, not only would you have to change the punctuation (remove the comma after bonnet and add a comma after lady), but you would also change the meaning. The meaning would then be that the hen looked like a bonnet AND a face.

FatcatXN · Answer

Thank you very much

I got it. ^_^

Should I add a "which" here?

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