Transition from night to day as colours metaphor
"It came with violet deepening into purple, with purple flushing into rose, with rose shining into silver, and glowing into gold."
After her meeting with Ridgeway, Jenny is in a state of trance and can't fall asleep. In her dream-like state, she watches the colors of the sky change beautifully before her.
A grown man as a child simile
When Ridgeway gets stabbed and comes in front of Jenny's door. she lifts him up from the ground and carries him to the house as if he were a child. After that, she has a weird motherly affection for him.
Hand cold as a snow-flake simile
"...and for a moment her thin hand rested there, light and cold as a snowflake, and then, as it seemed to him, like a snow-flake melted away."
It is a moment between Jack Oakhurst and the married wife he fell in love with.
Clinging to conversation like a shipwrecked mariner simile
""And your bowels all the time irregular?" continued Hawkins, blushing under Wingate's eye, and yet clinging despairingly to his theme, like a shipwrecked mariner to his plank."
It is a simile from the Fool of Five Forks story that shows his persistent nature even though everyone rejects him and regards him as a fool.
Weak-minded giant metaphor
"led them to believe that she had, at a very early stage of the proceeding, completely subjugated this weakminded giant, and had brought him triumphantly to her feet."
This statement is about the Fool and Miss Milly and the rumors their relationship. The people immediately jumped on a train of judging the two: Miss Milly being manipulative, a negative stereotype for her sex, and the Fool being a fool and not being able to think for himself.
