Enumerate the literary devices Cather used

In Chapter One, we are introduced to the character of Godfrey St. Peter, a man who is inordinately attached to his old house when he has a beautiful new one with all the modern conveniences waiting for him. This attachment to the old house becomes, as the novel progresses, and as is evident even from this first chapter, a symbol for St. Peter’s attachment to the past itself. As a historian, this emotion is perhaps fitting. The Professor is attached not only to the house and its imperfections, but to his work-room in the house and to the very dress-forms his sewing-lady has used to construct dresses for his wife and daughters over the years.