Monsters (Metaphor)
“Among many other kinds of monster” they are afraid of “little me.” Who are those monsters everyone is so afraid of? They are people without morality, those who don’t care about anyone or anything except for themselves. They say that George is one of them, but it is far from the truth. Neither he nor Jim has ever tried to pull anyone else into their relationship, haven’t try to abuse anyone. Their life used to be protected from the eyes of curious neighbors and dangers of the world, they allowed themselves to behave in a way they wanted only in their house.
Get angry (Metaphor)
George wants to take his mind off Jim in order not to drown in his own misery and despair. Being a great lover of literature, he prefers to read a book. However, it doesn’t seem to help, for the author he chooses – Ruskin – “lost his wig.” The words written in the book seem to be too loud, the topic doesn’t catch his interest, so the man decides to stop reading before he works himself up.
A working place (Metaphor)
It is not like George doesn’t like his job, on the contrary, he is a professional and always tries to do his best. What he doesn’t really like is his colleagues and the atmosphere that reigns in the English Department. Every teacher has his or her working place – or like George calls it “pigeon-hole” – in the office and each table is “stuffed with papers”, so there is nowhere to hide and no free place at all.
Crazy (Simile)
George doesn’t like the children from his neighborhood and it is not without a reason. They behave as if they are little beasts, disturb the calmness of their quiet street and even dare to enter George’s yard. He refuses to put up with it and every time they cross the border of his property George starts “waving his arms and roaring like a madman” to scare them off.
Sick with fear (Simile)
George has been always afraid of something. “The twenties, the thirties, the war – each one of them” has left its traces upon George “like an illness.” He feels sick with worries, for the world he lives in becomes more and more dangerous place for him. He is sick with fear of “annihilation.”
To change a place (Simile)
According to Cynthia, her trip to Mexico last month was “like a breath of fresh air.” Everything seemed to be different, people were nicer, their children were even better than their parents and the most trivial things seemed to be just wonderful.
