Both Uses of
complacent
in
The Great Gatsby
- There was something pathetic in his concentration, as if his complacency, more acute than of old, was not enough to him any more.†
p. 13.6complacency = contentment (often unworried to a fault)
- I am part of that, a little solemn with the feel of those long winters, a little complacent from growing up in the Carraway house in a city where dwellings are still called through decades by a family's name.
p. 176.2 *complacent = contented (unworried and happy) -- often to a fault
Definition:
contented (unworried and satisfied) -- often to a fault