Jane’s smell
Will enhances the reader’s conception of Jane’s smell via the employment of a simile to directly liken her smell to that of oversugared coffee. He notes: “The part I enjoy most is not the doing, but the noticing. Noticing the way she smells like oversugared coffee…”
Clint’s breath
The reader’s perception and understanding of Clint’s breath are refined by the use of a simile to compare it to a malodorous cloud. His breath is in this sense perceived as foul and smelly: “I’m able to convince myself that he’s not really walking toward me until his visible breath is blowing over me like a small, malodorous cloud.”
Sexual immorality
Clint alludes to the issue of sexual immorality among the youths of America in which the ease with which handjobs were passed out is likened to the way lollipops are passed out. Clint notes: “Everybody’s always got their panties in a twist about how the youth of America are debaucherous, sex-crazed maniacs passing out handjobs like they were lollipops…”
Maura’s folded piece of paper
The imagery of the piece of paper passed on to Maura is enhanced through the narrator’s comparison of its folded appearance to that of a map. He notes: “Maura looks at them for a second, then folds the piece of paper along the dotted lines, squaring it together like a map.”
The smell of the narrator’s mother’s 'hair stuff'
The olfactory imaginings of the hair stuff owned by the narrator’s mother are enhanced via his comparison of its smell to that of butterflies in a field. In this way, the imagery of its smell is made explicit: “I could use my mother’s hair stuff, but i have no desire to smell like butterflies in a field.”
