Highlight two similes in paragraph 7
Analyze: How do the comparisons that the author makes create tension?
In one of them, I am clinging to the ceiling of a summer cottage while a red-faced man in white
shorts and a white V-necked T-shirt jumps up and down, hitting at me with a tennis racket. There are
cedar rafters up here, and sticky flypapers attached with tacks, dangling like toxic seaweeds. I look
down at the man’s face, foreshortened and sweating, the eyes bulging and blue, the mouth emitting
furious noise, rising up like a marine float, sinking again, rising as if on a swell of air.