The Winter of Our Discontent Imagery

The Winter of Our Discontent Imagery

Joey

The narrator describes Ethan's friend Joey using imagery. The narrator states that Joey "looked like a horse and smiled like a horse, raising a long upper lip to show big square teeth." He is also described as being a "fascinating monkey", and also as having a good poker face.

The red setter

Steinbeck is talented at crafting descriptions of everyday occurrences, such as the passing of a dog in the early morning: "Only one person in early Elm Street, Mr. Baker's red setter, the banker's dog, Red Baker, who moved with slow dignity."

Nature

Steinbeck uses beautiful imagery to describe nature in this text, such as the "green-gold morning," and the "fair gold morning of April". In one passage, Steinbeck describes the garden using imagery: "It was deep-set in the greening garden among lilacs a hundred years old, think as your waist, and swelling with buds."

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