Author's Note: This was an assignment where we had to choose a quote with figurative language and analyze it. So I did.
"One of them slid down into your stomach like a black cobra down an echoing well looking for all the old water and the old time gathered there" Pg. 14
This quote takes place when Guy's wife, Mildred, takes to many sleeping pills, and has to get her stomach pumped and blood replaced. They used a machine to execute this task. But the tone of this simile is definitely dark. The personification from the machine to a snake gives a kind of hopeless feel, seeing as the snake is an ironic symbol. As for going down a well, it is like descending into blackness and gloominess. The old water at the bottom of the well is like the insides that they are pumping out. The whole quote feels dark and dismal.
Is it her soul that is vacant? Is it her stomach, or her self they are evacuating? Think of how we feel our visceral emotions in our stomach. Mildred is a person to dread becoming. Take this book and really enjoy the passion of the nightmare, and don't you dare tell me you can't. (I miss instructing you in the Dojo!)
ReplyDeleteI thought you figured out the meaning for this metaphor. Nice
ReplyDeleteI think you interpenetrated this quote very well and I also like your quote choice.
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