“A Dance” (Metaphor)
A couple of large grimy shopping bags come floating past on a sudden breeze, dancing to the tune of the wailing sirens. The waitress wished a wealth. Though it realized very strangely as robbed money became the wealth. It should be a satirical view on the waitress (and obviously – other low-paid service) job and ways to improve this situation (only robbery becomes a solution). The metaphor of dancing bags is to emphasize the whole scene and give an additional feeling of a tale.
“A Fairy Godmother” (Simile)
She raises her spoon like a wand and grants the waitress her wish. The events change rather quickly and we find the traditional plot realized in modern world. As usual the person is rewarded for the good he/she disinterestedly did. Though there are not fairy transformations, only a gesture with a spoon reveals the godmother.
“The Blind” (Simile)
She takes the blind beggar home with her, as if he were something she’d won in a raffle. We can speak about the main character that she is quite contradictory person. She gives the free soup for the old bag lady, takes the beggar and cares about him, still she picks up the others’ money almost without hesitation. Dialectics of the soul in the 21st century. But speaking about the beggar we see the image of the lonely man, traditionally – without wide descriptions, so that the reader gets the image of the poor who seems to look reasonable in his situation, he turns out to be an interesting collocutor, able for friendship. The image of the panhandler involves another world, less prompt, where the waitress escapes to for some time.
“Negligent Wishes” (Simile)
End up like that couple who wished their noses into sausages. This simile is used to emphasize the choice the waitress was to do. The main point of the story is that one should think twice on what to wish and say in order not to ‘waste his/her wishes’ and not to make his/her situation more difficult.
