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Without
turning on the light he imagined how this room would look. His wife stretched
on the bed, uncovered and cold, like a body displayed on the lid of a tomb, her
eyes fixed to the ceiling by invisible threads of steel, immovable. And in her
ears the little Sea-shells, the thimble radios tamped tight, and an electronic
ocean of sound, of music and talk and music and talk coming in, coming in on
the shore of her unsleeping mind. The
room was indeed empty. Every night the waves came in and bore her off on their great
tides of sound, floating her, wide-eyed, toward morning. There had been no night in the last two years
that Mildred had not swum that sea, had not gladly gone down in it for the
third time (pg. 12)
You should have at least 7 examples of devices. Then answer the following: Why does Bradbury use the comparisons that he does? What does this passage reveal about Mildred? Her mind? Their marriage?
2. Read up to page 31 in the book(or page 15 in the PDF)
