Hello. if u are here. chances are u are trying to decipher the meaning of the phrase abortive sorrows.( as evident from my blog stats) I’m sorry. but you are at the wrong place. this is just a place where an angsty misguided young teenager does his crazy ramblings. sorry for the inconvenience caused.
However, i can help u to a certain extent.
The phrase abortive sorrows can be found in a book by Fitzgerald entitled ‘The Great Gatsby’.
It encapsulates the ephemeral quality which is prevalant throughout the book, that reflects the uncertainty of the modern age (at which the book was written). Transcience dominates both the physical, emotional and moral landscape of ‘The Great Gatsby’. Perception becomes part of construction as the reader, narrator and protagonists of the story combine in a fluid and fleeting fashion; a testimony of the fustrating human condition- that everything is merely a veil, we can never see behind the cover to see the truth as the truth itself.
Hence when one ponders about what does abortive sorrows mean in this context, one must first consider reference to time with the word ‘abortive’. It has negative connotations of being artificially terminated; being stopped before achieving full term. Yet it also might have a deeper allusion to the character of Daisy in the novel, in which the love between her and her suitors can never bear fruit. Her relationship between her and her daughter is also a stub- almost loveless. The word ‘sorrows’ deal with a deep seated powerful emotion within a human being that comes in times of great distress. Hence, it is almost ironic or paradoxical that Fitzgerald uses it with the word abortive, which suggests the fleetingness of such a powerful deep emotion. How can an emotion that moves a human being so last for so little time?
