“It’s something terrific, like a vaccine for cancer” (“Rape Fantasies”)
The attention accorded to rape fantasies is equated to the coverage that would be granted to a momentous innovation such as ‘a vaccine for cancer.’ This assessment accentuates the sensationalism that magazines utilize when writing about ‘rape fantasies.’
“She’s pretty but cool as cucumber, like she’s been painted all over with nail polish” (“Rape Fantasies”)
These portrayals refer to Sondra. Likening Sondra to cucumber brings out her comeliness. Furthermore, the imagery of nail polish depicts a gorgeous woman.
“I swear all four of them looked at me like I was in bad taste, like I’d insulted the Virgin Mary” (“Rape Fantasies”)
The narrator refers to the joke she makes about bubbles getting into Chrissy nose in the course of her raising an alarm about a rapist. Even though the joke is in relation to a fantasy, her comrades glare at her because they are too enthralled by the fantasy that they construe it as a real life incident.
“It was like getting away from a growling dog” (“The Man from Mars”)
Christine’s capability to get rid of ‘the man from Mars’ , who wants to accompany her home, is comparable to getting rid of ‘ a growing dog.’ The man’s company is unnerving for Christine that is why she acts resolutely by grabbing her racket from him and bidding him goodbye so that he can apprehend that Christine does not welcome his camaraderie.
“instead she imagined she was an elusive water-nixie, or sometimes, in moments of audacity, Marilyn Monroe” (“The Man from Mars”)
Christine draws parallel between herself to a’ water nixie’ and Marilyn Monroe to mollify the illusion of being stunning and tenuous. It is due to the elusiveness that ‘the man from mars’ cannot ensnare her.
