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   On 26/12/2019 1:53 p.m., Alexander Koryagin : August Abolins wrote:   
      
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    ..I pulled the door to against the increasing rain.   
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    AK> https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/pull+to   
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   2. To drag, tug, or yank something shut. A noun or pronoun is used between   
   "pull" and "to."   
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    AK> So in normal language the sentence will look like this:   
    AK> "... I closed the door because the rain was increasing."   
      
   Excellent! So, why couldn't Fitz just write that, eh?    The story is set   
   in the 20's, so the English that people spoke wasn't *that* archaic.   
      
   BTW, "to pull the door" would indicate to me that it was an outward swinging   
   door that he was trying to close from the inside and the "against" may be   
   attempting to imply a heavy rain beating at the door at the moment.   
      
   If I recall correctly, the narrator is staying in a cottage next door to   
   Gatsby's mansion.  The cottage may have only had a flimsy door that the rain   
   could beat against very easily.   
      
   For a read consistent with the season, try Dicken's A Christmas Carol. There   
   are few archaic language samples in that one!   
      
   BTW..  I am liking your Reformator program very much! I think I got the right   
   routine of copy-paste-quote-copy-paste that works for me. I like the way it   
   skips quoting the citing section.   
      
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