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McCorkles’ attitude toward the subject matter in the story is serious. Although the narrator tend to mock their argument sarcastically, she often get offended by the breast topic. One figurative language that I found was on page 224: She was only three and a half feet tall, her head the size of a softball. This description sounds like a pitied feeling that the narrator has for Lucy. To the narrator, Lucy must’ve look petite and weak. She’s just doing her job to live her life on

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