Metaphors

"In the opening story, "Every Little Hurricane," a boy named Victor (who appears as either a focal or a secondary character, as either a child or an adult, in a number of the stories) describes a New Year's Eve party at his parents' house as if it were a hurricane, as if it were a focal incident in the history of storms constituting his family life and the broader existence of the tribe. Because Victor awakens from a dream influenced by television news to the disjointed, exaggerated noises of the party (including the wreckage of a bloody fistfight between his uncles Adolph and Arnold), the references to the hurricane have a literal as well as a figurative quality. The metaphor is, ultimately, at least as real as the sorrows and terrors, the acute sense of dislocation, recycled by the adults in bouts of great dissipation and more lasting disillusionment."

"In the opening story, "Every Little Hurricane," a boy named Victor (who appears as either a focal or a secondary character, as either a child or an adult, in a number of the stories) describes a New Year's Eve party at his parents' house as if it were a hurricane, as if it were a focal incident in the history of storms constituting his family life and the broader existence of the tribe. Because Victor awakens from a dream influenced by television news to the disjointed, exaggerated noises of the party (including the wreckage of a bloody fistfight between his uncles Adolph and Arnold), the references to the hurricane have a literal as well as a figurative quality. The metaphor is, ultimately, at least as real as the sorrows and terrors, the acute sense of dislocation, recycled by the adults in bouts of great dissipation and more lasting disillusionment."

Stereotypes used in the Lone Ranger