[quote=EbenezerSlack]He does that with a female MC too. The whole discussion is strange.
Metaphors are a normal part of literary fiction – and this one is more obvious than most. Do you not read books or something?
I’m at a loss here – it’s a literary ‘device’, standard issue from the dawn of lit fiction. Sometimes you need to ‘dig deep’ to get it, but in this case it’s so obvious it’s like 1 + 1. Boring, even.
What is going on…
You know the way you have to ‘read between the lines’ when ‘parsing’ social cues? Because people don’t just mechanically express literally what they are saying: there’s innuendo behind all the words.
Metaphor in fiction is just the equivalent of that innuendo – that which isn’t expressed bluntly, but expressed instead indirectly…
I can’t believe I’m having to write this lol
