The Only Use of
banter
in
The Great Gatsby
- Sometimes she and Miss Baker talked at once, unobtrusively and with a bantering inconsequence that was never quite chatter, that was as cool as their white dresses and their impersonal eyes in the absence of all desire.†
p. 12.3bantering = engaging in amusing conversation
Definition:
casual conversation that is clever and amuses; or to engage in such conversation