Taunted home (metaphor)
Mag Smith had been considered a disgraceful woman, and her “home was soon contaminated by the publicity of her fall”. A feeling “of degradation was oppressing her”; “foul tongue would jest of her shame, and averted looks and cold greetings disheartened her”. This society is far too severe and stern to women who had made a mistake, but the biggest grief is that these people do not try even get to the essence of this mistake; it is enough for them to taunt and make the lives of others miserable.
Harshness of cold (metaphor)
The author masterfully uses metaphors in giving a detailed picture of the life. “The cold was fast coming to tarry its apportioned time. Mag was nearly despairing of meeting its rigor.” The cold is treated as some monster that is pitiless and severe. Poor Mag Smith was forced to deal with it, only Jim helped her not to die from cold.
Labeled (metaphor)
John Bellmont as an owner of a big estate, to whose wife Mag had left her daughter Frado. John is said to be “wearing the badge of age”, which metaphorically means he was not young.
Battle (simile)
In the family of the Bellmonts, they quite soon understood that Mag would not come back for her daughter, and John Bellmont felt sympathy to the abandoned child, so decided to help poor Frado. But Mrs. Bellmont was of completely opposite opinion, and to come into confrontation with her would be for John “be like encountering a whirlwind charged with fire, daggers and spikes.” Mrs. Bell mont was rather ill-tempered person with black heart.
