Mature (Metaphor)
The day Lenny and Eunice met, she wore “fancy jeans, a gray cashmere sweater, and a string of pearls” which “lent her at least ten years of age.” She did look very good; Lenny was just surprised to see that such a young woman wore pearls. He associated it with more mature ladies. It could be possible that it really made her look a little bit older than she was.
Hairy (Metaphor)
According to Lenny, Fabrizia was “the softest woman” he “had ever touched.” Her body was “conquered by small armies of hair”, her curves “fixed by carbohydrates, nothing but the Old World and its dying nonelectronic corporeality.” In other words, Fabrizia with her absence of defined muscles and soft hair on her body was too natural.
Old (Metaphor)
Lenny wasn’t old. However, he wasn’t young too. He was in his forties, still full of life, but not as strong as he used to be. Eunice’s youth seemed to emphasize his age and grossness. He was “a man who lived in death’s anteroom”, he wasn’t getting any younger.
Helpless (Simile)
Lenny saw how an old Jewish woman had fallen on “the sun-baked asphalt”. Either she was in great pain or she was too weak to get up quickly, but she “spun around like a turtle.” Her friends made “a protective scrim around her.”
Ageless (Simile)
Joshie Goldmann “never revealed his age”. Although he was definitely older than Lenny, he “had sometimes been mistaken for” Lenny’s “younger brother.” Even mustaches of this sixty something man was “as black as eternity.”
A maze (Simile)
Once Lenny got a chance to visit China. He landed at “a just built airport as beautiful as a coral reef and no less complex.” This simile might indicate that Lenny had a lot of troubles with finding an exit from the airport.
