There is
much figurative language in this novel. At Ona and Jurgis's wedding, for example, Ona is
described wearing clothes and decorations that symbolize her
innocence and purityespecially through the color white. Through her flowers, she is connected to
nature. Green is a color that stands for youth, and her youth is symbolized by the bright green
rose leaves:
She wore a muslin dress, conspicuously white,
and a stiff little veil coming to her shoulders. There were five pink paper roses twisted in the
veil, and eleven bright green rose leaves. There were new white cotton gloves upon her hands,
and as she stood staring about her she twisted them together feverishly.
Also at Jurgis and Ona's wedding, one of the musicians is described
as:
a Slovak, a tall, gaunt man with black-rimmed
spectacles and the mute and patient look of an overdriven mule; he responds to the whip but
feebly, and then always falls back into his old rut.
In
this quote above, the Slovak violinist is compared to a mule...
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