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'She was very pretty and simple, and her face was sweet and young. Now her rouged cheeks and her reddened lips made her seem alive and sleeping very lightly. The curls, tiny little sausages, were spread on the hay behind her head, and her lips were parted.' What is described metaphorically in this passage about Curley's wife, from John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men?

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A metaphor states that one thing is something else. 


'She was very pretty and simple, and her face was sweet and young. Now her rouged cheeks and her reddened lips made her seem alive and sleeping very lightly. The curls, tiny little sausages, were spread on the hay behind her head, and her lips were parted.' <br>What is described metaphorically in this passage about Curley's wife, from John Steinbeck's <em>Of Mice and Men</em>?





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