Self-Pity and Hatred (Metaphor)
When Sarah decides to interrupt the affair with Maurice, he feels awful. His “self-pity and hatred walk hand in hand across the garden.” Here the author uses a metaphor to show that these feelings are in the head of Maurice right now, when his heart is broken. The garden is his head. Self-pity and hatred are his companions, who are together with him in his certain period of life.
Love Like a Small Creature (simile)
As long as Maurice believes that his love with Sarah is alive, he is happy. If love is destined to die, he wants her to die quickly. It is as though their love is “like a small creature caught in a trap and bleeding to death.” Maurice wants to shut his eyes and wring its neck because love hurts him.
Happiness like Blood (Simile)
When Sarah thinks Maurice is dead after the bombing (actually, he is not dead), she looks at him and is horrified. He is lying as if without a soul. “Even the half-happiness she gave him was drained out of him like blood.” A person dies if there is no blood in his body. Maurice dies if in his body there is no happiness given by Sarah. Maurice does not exist without happiness.
