Shoe
In "Shoe", the narrator uses a simile to describe how the man felt for the record: "He executed an awkward pirouette, took a healthy swallow of wine, and felt for the record like a blind man reading Braille."
Credits at the end of a film
The narrator describes the protagonist's dream, saying that the men in her dream "had been presented to her in series, like credits at the end of a film." This simile adds to the surreal elements of the dream, and gives a visual indicator of what it might have looked like.
Surreal dreams
The narrator again describes the surreal dream using a simile: "The men involved had looked to her like strange trapeze artists or happy preschool children on playground swings."
