Literary notes about lobby (AI summary)
In literature, the term "lobby" conveys a rich duality, acting both as a tangible architectural space and as a symbolic threshold between different realms or states of being. It is often depicted as the well-appointed entryway or foyer of grand buildings, with descriptions highlighting its elegant décor or marble finishes ([1], [2], [3]). Yet, the lobby also functions as a dynamic stage where characters encounter one another—meeting for secretive exchanges, awaiting appointments, or even engaging in political machinations ([4], [5], [6]). This versatile setting, whether envisioned as a quiet transitional space or a bustling arena of social interaction, imbues narratives with layers of atmosphere and meaning ([7], [8], [9]).
- Carrie noted the elegantly carpeted and decorated hall, the marbled lobby, and showy waiting-room.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser - Curving marble steps with a rail of polished brass led from the hotel-lobby down to the barber shop.
— from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis - That cavern, which was called the choir, communicated with the cloister by a lobby.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo - After giving some directions to Ali, who stood in the lobby, the count took Albert’s arm.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet - He knew all the senators and representatives, and especially, the lobby.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner - The railroad corporations would be so effected they would in self-defense lobby to have the separate car law repealed.
— from Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases by Ida B. Wells-Barnett - “I say,” said Hurstwood, as they came up the theatre lobby, “we are exceedingly charming this evening.”
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser - The whole lobby was a perfect pandemonium, and the din was terrific.
— from Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) by Jerome K. Jerome - In the lobby he took a seat and waited again, wondering what he could do.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser
