Emma LaFond Week 8 "Echolalia"

 Echolalia: N meaningless repetition of another person's spoken words as a symptom of psychiatric disorder

"There was the boom of the base drum, and the voice of the orchestra leader rang out suddenly above the echolalia of the garden" - The Great Gatsby pg 49

I chose this word because I liked the way that it sounded, but also, the point in Gatsby where I found the word, there was a party at Gatsby's house going on. I thought that Gatsby in this part of the novel was mysterious, and so the atmosphere of the party was like that as well and I thought that this word just kind of captured what I thought the atmosphere of the chapter was. The word has a slightly dark definition because it means repeating someone's words but because of a psychiatric disorder which just furthered my thought that the party had a mysterious atmosphere. When I looked up the word I thought it would just mean repeating but I wanted to check, but the definition could also be showing that the people of the party aren't saying anything of value and there's a possible "disease" among the people of the party. I took this to be a comment from the author on parties that rich people throw and the kinds of people that run in those social circles but I'm not sure.

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