Use Of Metaphor In George Gladwell's 'Little Fish'

Gladwell then uses metaphor to compare his ‘Big Fish/ Little Fish’ concept. For example, he states “Did they want to be a Little fish in the Big pond of the Salon or a Big fish in a Little pond of their own choosing? (Gladwell 68)”. He introduces this concept as another means to push people to strive for something better because he’s giving (the reader) a better situation that’s understandable. Gladwell is trying to show that just because the people he’s interviewed as well as encountered may have been stuck in one area doesn’t mean that they’re not gonna succeed where you put them exactly, that was his whole ‘pushing’ mechanism. Soon enough Gladwell uses diction to (show) another way of him subliminally pushing his people to work for something