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FatcatXN Posted 19 years ago
Vocabulary
Why "broken"?
I've been reading <The Great Gatsby>
"Their house was even more elaborate than I expected, a cheerful red-and-white Georgian Colonial mansion, overlooking the bay. ...... The front was broken by a line of French windows, glowing now with reflected gold and wide open to the warm windy afternoon, and Tom Buchanan in riding clothes was standing with his legs apart on the front porch."
Do the French windows break the front (of the house)? What does "The front was broken by a line of French windows" mean?
"Their house was even more elaborate than I expected, a cheerful red-and-white Georgian Colonial mansion, overlooking the bay. ...... The front was broken by a line of French windows, glowing now with reflected gold and wide open to the warm windy afternoon, and Tom Buchanan in riding clothes was standing with his legs apart on the front porch."
Do the French windows break the front (of the house)? What does "The front was broken by a line of French windows" mean?
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Broken here means 'interrupted, made discontinuous'. The windows relieve the unbroken (= solid, unvaried) plane of the house front.
- Broken here means 'interrupted, made discontinuous'.
- The windows relieve the unbroken (= solid, unvaried) plane of the house front.
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Broken here means 'interrupted, made discontinuous'. The windows relieve the unbroken (= solid, unvaried) plane of the house front.
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