Vocabulary in Context: Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar
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Context Clues
The two of them didn't even stop jitterbugging during the intervals. I felt myself shrinking to a small black dot against those red and white rugs and that pine paneling. I felt like a hole in the ground. There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room. It's like watching Paris from an express caboose heading in the opposite direction - every second the city gets smaller and smaller, only you feel it's really you getting smaller and smaller and lonelier and lonelier, rushing away from all those lights and that excitement at about a milion miles an hour (Plath 16).