The Imagery of the Morgue
The Morgue activates images of death and dead people that are preserved in refrigerators. Furthermore ‘formaldehyde’ used in the morgue informs the olfactory images that the readers perceive about the smell in the morgue and the overall ambiance in the morgue.
The Imagery of the Stretcher
The stretcher serves dual, unrelated functions. One of the undertaking, for a sex couch, initiates the imagery of a cozy berth for two individuals to have sex. The moment that Bertie jumps onto the stretcher, he forgets that the same stretcher carried a dead corpse whom he did not relish looking at.
The Imagery of a Cancerous Lump
The lump, in “The Consultation”, is “ hard, irregular and fixed”. A reader would envision the lump’s size through the adjectives that Selzer utilizes when describing it. Also, reader can envisage the image of the lump once it has become cancerous and the suffering that will come with it.
